Renee Nicole Good was a poet, wife and mother of three who was born and previously lived in Colorado Springs.

Good, 37, died on Wednesday after she was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Her mother described her to The Minnesota Star Tribune as an “extremely compassionate” person who took care of people her whole life.

A GoFundMe page to support Good’s wife and 6-year-old son has raised over $1 million from more than 20,000 donors.

Good also has a 15-year-old daughter and another son, 12, who live in Colorado with their father, according to The Kansas City Star. The two would visit Good in the summer when she lived in Kansas City, a neighbor told the news outlet.

The father of her youngest child, Timmy Macklin Jr., was an Air Force veteran and stand-up comedian. In 2023, he died at 36, the outlet reported.

Good and her partner had been living in the Kansas City area as recently as the fall of 2023, according to The Star. There, she filed a petition to change her name to Renee Nicole Macklin Good so she could “share a name with my partner,” according to court documents cited by The Star.

A woman and Good that resided at the same address filed to organize a business in Missouri called, B. Good Handwork LLC, the outlet reported. The filing stated its purpose was to perform repairs, maintenance and upgrades to client’s homes.

A neighbor told the Star she did not view the pair as political activists and said they were “just two ladies with a cool kid.”

Good moved with her partner and younger son to Minneapolis in 2025 and her Instagram account bio states she was a “Poet and writer and wife and mom and sh—- guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.”

Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children, told the Associated Press that Good was driving home after dropping off her 6-year-old son when she came across ICE agents on Wednesday.

Good graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., with a degree in English in 2020, the university told Reuters.

In college, Good was the 2020 undergraduate winner of the college’s poetry prize for her poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” a post on social media by the English department states. She had been published in Metrosphere and the Coronado Literary Review.

“When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons,” the post read.

Good described herself as from Colorado Springs in the 2020 announcement.