Whistles, then gunfire: How the deadly ICE shooting unfolded in Minneapolis

By Ray Sanchez, CNN

Photo: AFP / Charly Triballeau

Renee Nicole Good's final moments were spent in her maroon Honda Pilot, her son's stuffed animals peeking out from the glove compartment. She had stopped in the middle of a tree-lined south Minneapolis street and motioned for unmarked government vehicles to drive past.

Whistle blasts pierced the early January chill in a now-familiar community response employed by activists in US cities to alert neighbours to the presence of immigration officers. For several minutes, Good partially blocked traffic on the street. Some unmarked government vehicles idled; others drove around.

"Go home," a bystander yelled.

On a snowy residential street Wednesday morning, Good crossed paths with a 10-year Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and Iraq War veteran named Jonathan Ross, who was dragged about 100 yards six months prior by a driver during an immigration operation in a Minneapolis suburb.

"I was fearing for my life," Ross testified during the December trial of an undocumented immigrant who was behind the wheel.

Good and Ross - whose brief confrontation Wednesday ended with him firing his weapon at least three times as she attempted to drive away - are now at the centre of furious debate over the Trump administration's building immigration crackdown, each side angrily assigning blame to the other. Videos of the incident are still emerging, and there's more to be learned.

Good, 37, had dropped off her 6-year-old son at school before she was mortally wounded, according to witnesses and city officials. A US citizen, Good was described as a poet and loving mom.

Ross joined ICE in 2015.