Watch out for this image supposedly showing Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk’s death

In the days after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026, social media users circulated an image appearing to show Good mocking the 2025 death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot in the neck. 

The image spread on X, Threads and Facebook (screenshot). Snopes readers also wrote in to ask if the picture was real. 

The image was accompanied with the words, “Here is her is celebrating Kirk getting shot” and “KARMA…” 

This picture was doctored, either with photo editing tools or artificial intelligence, to make it seem like Good had mocked Kirk. The creator of the image edited Good’s head onto a screenshot from a video of a different woman. As such, we have rated it as fake. 

Multiple reverse-image searches did not determine the creator of this image. 

The fake image appeared to use a photo from Good’s maternity shoot that has been widely circulated by national and global news outlets. A side-by-side of the two pictures shows the expression on Good’s face and the curl of her hair in the fake image matches the credible image of her: 

(X user @Memere269/Knot & Anchor Photography)

The bottom half of the doctored image appeared to be taken from a video that social media users spread in October 2025, shortly after Kirk was killed. Social media users claimed that clip showed a Chicago teacher mocking Kirk, but Snopes previously found little to no verifiable evidence about the incident. 

The shirt and parts of the background of the fake image match the video that circulated online. Some of the background features of the original screenshot appear to be missing, added to or moved around in the fake image, including an American flag and other protesters with signs. That suggests the image of Good at the protest was likely created with artificial intelligence. 

(X user @Memere269/X user @CollinRugg)

Snopes has previously debunked an AI-generated image appearing to show Good’s car aimed at the ICE officer who shot her and determined that a “rap sheet” attributed to Good was not actually hers.