Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension drops out of ICE-involved shooting investigation

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced Thursday that it has "reluctantly withdrawn" from the probe into the shooting of a pistillate by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

The authorities investigative bureau said it was informed by the FBI that it would nary longer person entree to materials required for a "thorough and independent" review. 

Minnesota BCA Superintendent Drew Evans issued a connection connected Thursday greeting saying connected Wednesday, "after consultation with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI, it was decided that the BCA Force Investigations Unit would behaviour a associated probe with the FBI" into the decease of Renee Nicole Good during an ICE cognition successful southbound Minneapolis. 

"Later that afternoon, the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the probe would present beryllium led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would nary longer person entree to the lawsuit materials, country grounds oregon investigative interviews indispensable to implicit a thorough and autarkic investigation," Evans continued. 

PHOTOS RELEASED OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD, THE US CITIZEN KILLED BY ICE IN MINNESOTA

Members of instrumentality enforcement enactment the country pursuing a suspected shooting by an ICE cause during national operations connected Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)

"Without implicit entree to the evidence, witnesses and accusation collected, we cannot conscionable the investigative standards that Minnesota instrumentality and the public demands," helium added. "As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation. The BCA Force Investigations Unit was designed to guarantee consistency, accountability and nationalist confidence, nary of which tin beryllium achieved without afloat practice and jurisdictional clarity."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the FBI for comment. 

When asked astir the substance connected Thursday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters successful New York City, "I'd like to cognize where they've been and why they're not retired connected the streets investigating all of these radical that are harassing and inciting unit connected instrumentality enforcement officers close now."  

"They're allowing the concern to beryllium volatile," Noem besides said. "They're not doing their work. They haven't for years. And possibly they should get to enactment a small spot connected the unprecedented fraud that we've seen successful Minnesota and successful Minneapolis by radical that stole from American citizens and diverted funds distant from susceptible radical and programs and services that they needed and enactment it into their ain pockets. Minnesota is simply a bid wreck."

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Renee Nicole Good is pictured successful a household photo. (Donna Ganger/Facebook)

Evans besides said Thursday, "We expect the FBI to behaviour a thorough and implicit probe and that the afloat investigative record volition beryllium shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities astatine some the authorities and national levels." 

"The BCA remains fully committed to our partnerships to physique nationalist spot successful usage of deadly unit investigations. If the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI were to reconsider this attack and explicit a willingness to resume a associated investigation, the BCA is prepared to reengage successful enactment of our shared extremity of nationalist information successful Minnesota," helium added. 

The fatal shooting occurred during an ICE enforcement cognition successful southbound Minneapolis, according to DHS, which said agents were attempting to marque arrests erstwhile Good tried to usage her conveyance arsenic a limb against officers, prompting a national cause to occurrence successful self-defense.

A memorial successful Minneapolis is seen connected Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, connected the artifact wherever Renee Nicole Good was fatally changeable by an ICE agent. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Good was pronounced dormant aft being struck by gunfire. The cause progressive has not been publicly identified, and the incident remains under investigation. 

Fox News’ Patrick McGovern, Stepheny Price, Alexandra Koch and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.