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A makeshift memorial honoring the victim of a fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement agents is taped to a post near the site of the previous day's shooting, Jan. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP)
This isn’t a photo of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an immigration officer Jan. 7 in Minneapolis.
The image shows another woman who was pictured on a Facebook account of the university Good attended.
Old Dominion University’s English department posted the photo on its Facebook page in 2020, identifying the woman as someone else.
After an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, social media users started posting images they said showed the woman. But in the midst of the breaking news, users misidentified her.
The photo shows a short-haired woman wearing red lipstick, eyeliner and a green sweater, and some users said she was the 37-year-old killed when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot into her vehicle.
"This is Renee Nicole Good, a dedicated wife and mother who was killed by Donald Trump’s ICE thugs today," reads an X post with over 600,000 views. "RETWEET to honor Good’s memory."
Other users made similar claims on X, Facebook, Threads and Instagram.
Federal, state and local officials have given conflicting narratives of the shooting, but the woman in that photo isn’t Good.
Doing a reverse image search, we found the photo in a 2020 Facebook post from the English department at Old Dominion University, where Good went to college in Norfolk, Virginia.
The post congratulated the winners and honorable mentions of the Academy of American Poets 2020 Old Dominion University College Poetry Prize.
The department shared photos of multiple students in the post, including one of Good, who was among the winners. The post identified her as Renee Macklin, which was her name at the time. But social media users shared another image of another woman recognized in the post. The university identified this person in the photo’s caption as another woman.
(Screenshot of a photo of Good on the Facebook page of the English department where she went to college.)
PolitiFact reviewed multiple other photos of Good shared by local and national media outlets and none show the short-haired woman in the image circulating online.
The claims that this person is Good are False.
Old Dominion University’s English Department Facebook post, April 1, 2020
X post, Jan. 7, 2026
X post, Jan. 8, 2026
Instagram post, Jan. 7, 2026
Facebook post, Jan. 7, 2026
Threads post, Jan. 7, 2026
CNN, Mother of 3 who loved to sing and write poetry shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis, Jan. 8, 2026
Poets.org, 2020 University & College Poetry Prize Winners, accessed Jan. 8, 2026
The Minnesota Star Tribune, ‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent, Jan. 7, 2026
Fox News, Photos released of Renee Nicole Good, the US citizen killed by ICE in Minnesota, Jan. 8, 2026
New York Post, Renee Nicole Good identified by mother as woman fatally shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis after she drove car at officer, Jan. 7, 2026
The New York Times, Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Encounter in Minnesota, Jan. 7, 2026
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