The results of an independent autopsy for Renée Good have been described by the law firm representing her family and estate show the mother of three sustained gunshot wounds to her left arm, right breast and head.
The results appear to match details released by the Minneapolis Fire Department last week from personnel who found Good, 37, bleeding in the front seat of her SUV after she was shot by an ICE officer just over two weeks ago.
The private autopsy, which the law firm did not release publicly, shows a wound passed through Good’s left forearm, another passed in and out of her right breast and a third entered the left side of her head near the temple and exited on the other side, according to the law firm. A fourth wound, the location of which was not specified, could have been the result of one of the bullets grazing her, the firm said.
On the morning of Jan. 7, Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, had just dropped off Renée Good’s 6-year-old son at school when they stopped to protest an ICE operation in the neighborhood. They positioned their Honda SUV across a street several blocks from their home. Multiple witnesses captured video, showing ICE officers ordering Good to get out of her car. Good reverses, turns her wheel to the right and then drives forward. An officer standing at the front of her vehicle fires three shots into the windshield and an open driver’s side window as Good passes by.
Federal officials said the officer fired in self-defense and called Good a “domestic terrorist.” Her death, during the largest of several Trump administration ICE operations, has sparked national outrage and days of protests.
The Justice Department has investigated Good, not Ross, and investigators this week subpoenaed Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey whom they accused of obstruction. Federal officials have also refused to partner with state and local law enforcement, who have launched their own investigation into Good’s shooting.
Good’s family requested that the law firm representing them, Chicago-based Romanucci & Blandin, commission an independent autopsy. Antonio Romanucci, one of the firm’s founding partners, was on the legal team that represented the family of George Floyd after he was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. That legal team also commissioned an independent autopsy that contradicted aspects of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s autopsy.
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office has not released the results of Good’s autopsy. It can take up to 12 weeks for the office to post the manner and cause of death on its website, staff said. Good’s lawyers said they had not received the official autopsy Thursday.
As part of the civil rights investigation into the circumstances of Good’s death, the law firm is also conducting a forensic examination of the shooting scene to determine the trajectory of the gunshots and where the bullets ultimately landed.
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