Incident reports provide details of emergency response after fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis | Minnesota ICE shooting
New incident reports and transcripts of 911 calls from Minneapolis police and fire departments provide new details about the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis last week.
Paramedics arrived at the scene around 9:42 a.m. on Jan. 7 and found Good “unresponsive” in the driver’s seat of his car, “with blood on his face and torso,” according to a Minneapolis Fire Department incident report obtained by the Guardian, along with police records and 911 reports.
Paramedics removed Good from the car and reported him “unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, weak pulse activity,” the report states.
Paramedics located two “apparent gunshot wounds” on the right side of the chest, another apparent gunshot wound “on the patient’s left forearm,” and a “possible gunshot wound with protruding tissue on the left side of the patient’s head,” according to the report. The report also states that his “pupils were dilated” and blood was “draining” from his left ear.
Responders moved Good down the block “to provide a more viable scene, better access to ambulances, and separation from the escalating scene that involved law enforcement and bystanders,” according to the report.
Paramedics began performing chest compressions and applied a tourniquet to Good’s left arm before transporting him to a nearby hospital. The report states that CPR was continued during the transfer.
Once at the hospital, paramedics continued chest compressions and hospital staff “assumed airway and ventilation responsibilities,” the report states. According to the report, “Resuscitation efforts were terminated around 10.30”.
The Guardian also obtained transcripts of multiple 911 calls related to the attack. Records show the first call to 911 came in at roughly 9:38 a.m. on Jan. 7. one minute after the shooting.
In one of the calls, the caller told the dispatcher that “there was a group of ICE agents at 33rd and Portland, they just shot a lady in her car at close range.”
When asked if the woman had been shot, the caller replied: “She’s dead. They shot her.”
Later in the call, the same person said: “There were 15 ICE agents and they shot him because he couldn’t open his car door.”
Another caller reported witnessing “shooting at the car” and told the dispatcher he “shot into the windshield of the ICE.”
The caller, who told the officer they were now across the street, responded when asked if anyone had been shot: “Yes, he’s bleeding.”
Describing the incident, the caller said: “I saw an IYM officer shoot two shots at the driver through his windshield. He tried to drive away, but he crashed into the nearest parked car.
“I saw blood all over the driver and then the partner who tried to help,” the caller said.
The dispatcher said help was on the way.
A separate 911 call appears to have come from someone who said they were calling on behalf of federal officers at the scene and requesting assistance from emergency services and local police.
“We had officers trapped in a vehicle and we had agitators at the scene,” the caller said, adding that “there was gunfire by locals.”
The caller said he did not have a description of the attacker and that they were “just trying to get help.”
When asked by the operator where they were getting the information, the caller said it was from “our local joint operations command center,” adding that “officers on scene contacted us to contact you.”
The dispatcher told the caller, “help is on the way.”
The documents reviewed by the Guardian also include communications between law enforcement and emergency personnel.
A message at 9.47am local time read: “CROWD CONTROL NEEDED AND AREA CLOSED.”
Three minutes later, another message said, “THE CROWD MUST RETURN,” followed seconds later by “THE CROWD IS BECOME THE ENEMY.”
At 10:04, approximately 15 minutes after the shooting, messages were given that “the agent who fired the shots was no longer at the scene” and “was transferred to the FEDERAL BLDG.”
At 10:07 a.m. a message read: “CONTACT WHOM RESPONSIBLE FOR FES AND LEAVE THEM FROM THE STAGE.”
At 10.20am a message was posted saying the crowd was “MORE EXCITED” and a few minutes later the communications reported that a “crowd of 20 people” were trying to “SURGE” OCRS.
At 11:01 a.m., the communication read: “SUROUNDED IN ICE.”
Then at 11:20 it said, “ALL ICE AGENTS HAVE LEAVED THE STAGE” and about 18 minutes later it added: “THE CROWD IS CALM NOW SINCE THE ICE IS GONE.”
Trump administration officials, including Donald Trump, claimed that the agent identified as Jonathan Ross who shot and killed Good was acting in self-defense and accused Good of trying to “run him down.”
This account of the incident has been widely disputed by eyewitnesses as well as local and state leaders in Minnesota. Video footage of the shooting shows Good’s vehicle turning towards the officer as he fired at him.
Good’s killing sparked protests in Minneapolis and other cities across the United States. And as Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to protests against a federal immigration enforcement operation, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, urged demonstrators in Minneapolis to remain peaceful amid rising tensions there.
Trump administration announced deployment this week “hundreds more” federal agents traveled to Minneapolis to support ICE agents there.
The day before Good was shot and killed by a federal agent, Trump immigration officials described ICE’s presence in the Twin Cities as the agency’s “largest operation ever.”
