DENVER — Nearly two months after Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while in her car in Minneapolis, her parents and two younger brothers are speaking out about Good, who they describe as a fiercely loving mother, daughter and sister with an infectious laugh.
With so much attention on her death and subsequent violence in Minneapolis, they said it has been nearly impossible to avoid the images on social media or in the news.
All the same, they said they decided not to watch videos of the moment she was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.
“I can’t bring myself to do that,” her brother Brent Ganger said. Her father, Tim Ganger, added that they have “intentionally just let that go.”
Instead, her family say they are choosing to focus on who they knew Good to be.
“We’re the ones who know Renee. No one else knows Renee,” Good’s brother, Luke Ganger, said. “There’s a bunch of opinions and whatever, but we’re the ones who know her, and those other things aren’t going to change that.”
Holding a small stuffed animal gifted to her by her daughter, Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, said there is one powerful moment she has watched.
“The only thing I saw of that day was her saying, “I’m not mad at you,’” to her shooter, ICE agent Jonathon Ross,” Ganger said. “That was so Renee.”
For more on this story, watch “NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas” tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.
