After a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026, social media users claimed the shooting was the city's only known homicide in
The rumor circulated on X, Facebook and Threads.
The city of Minneapolis' crime dashboard recorded no homicides from Jan. 1 to 7, 2026. A spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police Department, Garrett Parten, stated via email on Jan. 8 email that there were "no shootings in 2026 recorded in Minneapolis prior to Jan. 7, 2026," and "no shooting in Minneapolis other than the one involving a federal agent." The Minnesota Star Tribune, the largest newspaper in the state, routinely covers all fatal shootings and killings in Minneapolis — and a search of the newspaper's website found no stories from 2026 about homicides in the city before Good's killing.
As of this writing, the officer who killed Good has not been charged with or convicted of a crime — but the shooting still falls under the definition of homicide, or the killing of one person by another. Not all homicides are considered murder or another criminal act. For legal purposes, journalists do not use the term "murder" to describe a homicide until the perpetrator is convicted of such a crime.
Some media analyses of cellphone video of the shooting said the footage raised questions about White House officials' claims that Good had attempted to run over the agent with her vehicle. After a Minnesota news outlet released the agent's own cellphone footage on Jan. 9, Vice President JD Vance was among those who said the video showed the officer fired in self-defense.
Multiple news outlets have identified the ICE agent who shot Good as Jonathan Ross. Snopes has not independently verified the officer's identity.
It is worth noting Good's shooting was not listed as a "homicide" on the city's crime dashboard and was instead categorized underneath "shots fired," a separate section that included shootings, shooting reports and the sound of shots fired, including if gunfire was detected by acoustic sensors via ShotSpotter technology. Parten did not respond to a question asking why Good's killing was not tagged as a
Minneapolis homicide data for 2026
According to the first page of Minneapolis' dashboard data definitions and instructions document, the city's crime dashboard reports data directly from the Minneapolis Police Department's Police Information Management System, the city's centralized software for recording all police records, and the city's dispatch system. The data is updated every day at 9:30 a.m. Central Time with information from the previous day (see Page 2). As such, at the time of this writing, the dashboard was updated through Jan. 8, 2026, the day after Good's killing.
Filtering the Minneapolis crime dashboard for any homicide offenses between Jan. 1 and 7, 2026, shows the police department did not record any homicides for that time period.
(City of Minneapolis)
The city of Minneapolis records three kinds of homicides on its crime dashboard: negligent homicides, non-negligent homicides and justifiable homicides, defined as "the killing of a perpetrator of a serious criminal offense by a peace officer in the line of duty, or the killing, during the commission of a serious criminal offense, of the perpetrator by a private individual." The summary page showed no homicides of any kind recorded in 2026 as of this writing.
(City of Minneapolis)
Minneapolis' open data portal for crime data also showed only one shooting between Jan. 1 and 7, 2026. The shooting recorded in the portal — which had the case number 26-005534 — was located at 34th Street East and Portland Avenue, matching the location of Good's killing. Snopes determined this by filtering the dataset for "shooting" under the category "Offense" and sorting the rows by "Occurred_Date" for most recent incidents.
The city cautions that its crime data is preliminary and subject to review.