Remembering Renee Good, The Human Being

She Is More Than Just A Murder Victim

So we have this horrific shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis by ICE agents which killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. I call it murder. I believe she was murdered in cold blood at point-blank range.

I’m not sure Renee and her family will ever get the accountability and justice they deserve from this corrupt administration, but we can honor her by remembering who she was as a human being, because she is so much more than just a murder victim in this sensational tragedy.

Renee was the wife of Becca, and the mother of three children…a 15 year old step-son and 12 year old step daughter, and a six-year-old son who is now orphaned because his father, her second husband, Air Force veteran Tim Macklin, died in 2023.

Renee was a creative soul. She was an award-winning poet, an avid writer, and a guitarist who liked to make “messy art” with her children. She loved to sing and watch movies.

Born in Colorado, Renee moved to Minnesota last year and lived in the Twin Cities with Becca. After spending most of her life in Colorado, she briefly moved to Kansas to live with her parents for a time after Tim died.

She was a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger. She participated in a chorus in high school before studying vocal performance in college. She attended Old Dominion University in Virginia, graduating in 2020 with an English degree. That same year she won an Academy of American Poets Award.

During her time at Old Dominion, Renee took advanced courses on creative writing and the craft of fiction. Her poetry has been published in Metrosphere and Coronado Literary Review.

She previously had co-hosted a podcast with Tim, who was a comedian, and worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union. She was currently a stay-at-home mom who reportedly was studying online for a graduate degree.

In 2024 she and her partner formed a company, B. Good Handywork LLC, which, according to the filing documents, would perform interior and exterior repair, maintenance and upgrade projects in residential homes.

Renee had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school when she encountered the ICE agents.

She died on her older sister’s birthday, and just a few blocks from where she lived.

There is a GoFundMe page set up to help Renee’s wife and 6-year-old son deal with this devastating loss. It initially sought $50,000. As of this writing it has raised $1.5-million. Money won’t bring Renee back, but it demonstrates the goodness and generosity of people, of strangers, and it will in so many ways help them more comfortably navigate through this tragedy over the months and years to come.