Beware of this image allegedly showing Renee Good’s criminal record

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A screenshot circulating online authentically depicted the criminal record of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis in early January 2026.

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In January 2026, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis, a screenshot (archived) circulated online purportedly depicting Good’s extensive criminal record, listing crimes such as child abuse, battery of a police officer and trespassing.

For example, one person who shared the image wrote: “You idiots on the left really need to pick your martyrs better. Renee Good has one hell of a rap sheet including Child Endangerment and SEVERAL Battery of a Police Officer charges.” “Rap sheets” are documents that list arrests and convictions in the U.S.

According to the screen grab, law enforcement officials booked, which generally means jailed, Good four times in 2022, 2023 and 2024 under suspicion of various crimes.

The image primarily circulated on Facebook (archived, archived) and X (archived), but also appeared on Threads (archived), while Snopes readers contacted us asking if the screenshot authentically showed Good’s criminal record.

In short, there was no evidence the screenshot accurately depicted a history of Good being arrested or convicted. Numerous reputable news media outlets reported that she was 37, and The Kansas City Star newspaper said she was born on April 2, 1988. The criminal record circulating online was for a 44-year-old person born in October 1980 (implying the screenshot was from 2024 or 2025).

According to The Kansas City Star, Good was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and used to live in Kansas City, Missouri. The newspaper reported that one of Good’s neighbors said the 37-year-old planned a move to Canada before, according to the BBC, “experiencing Minneapolis.”

Searches of criminal record databases in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota — states where Good had reportedly lived — for Renee Good, Renee Sheppard and Renee Macklin (Good’s name during marriages to her former husbands) uncovered no records matching the screenshot circulating online. Given the above, the criminal record could not have belonged to Good; therefore, we concluded that social media users miscaptioned the screenshot.

It was not clear where the criminal record screenshot originated from or whether it belonged to a real person who shared a name but not a birthdate with Good. According to Google’s Gemini chatbot, the screenshot did not contain SynthID — an invisible watermark that Google embeds in content created by its generative artificial intelligence products. Online AI detectors Sightengine and Hive Moderation found the image was unlikely to have been AI-generated. Such detectors are not always fully reliable.

The Associated Press reported that Good “apparently was never charged with anything beyond a single traffic ticket.”

Good died blocks away from her Minneapolis home, which a neighbor told The Minnesota Star Tribune that she, her wife and her 6-year-old son had moved to “recently.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of which ICE is an agency, has maintained (archived) that the officer who fatally shot Good “fired defensive shots” because he feared for his life. On X, the DHS claimed Good had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.”

At the time of this writing, the FBI had taken over a state investigation into Good’s death, according to a Jan. 8, 2026, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension statement, which had previously carried out the investigation jointly with the FBI.

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