It may all come right down to 399 milliseconds.
That is the period of time between the primary two gunshots fired by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent within the deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis Wednesday, based on an ABC Information metadata evaluation.
The circumstances surrounding 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good‘s loss of life have ignited a nationwide firestorm, with leaders of Minnesota’s largest metropolis, together with quite a few lawmakers, condemning the ICE brokers’ actions, whereas federal officers say that the brokers acted in self protection after Good tried to ram them with her car in an act of home terrorism.
Good, a Minneapolis mom of three, was within the driver’s seat of her Honda Pilot in the course of a residential avenue when an ICE agent opened hearth.
ABC Information’ minute-by-minute, frame-by-frame evaluation of video of the incident features a shut look of what occurred earlier than, throughout, and after the moments that led to Good’s loss of life.
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026
Federal regulation enforcement officers in Minneapolis had been “doing an enforcement operation” Wednesday morning when their car obtained caught within the snow, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated at a information convention Wednesday afternoon.
Noem says brokers referred to as for others to assist take away the car from the snow, when protesters arrived and had been “stopping them from leaving the scene.”
“They had been returning again to headquarters, I imagine, to start out a brand new operation,” Noem tells reporters, including that they “had simply accomplished one.”
Native resident Lynette Reini-Grandell advised ABC Information that numerous neighbors had been standing watch as college students had been being dropped off at close by Richard E. Inexperienced Central Park Elementary Faculty, on account of stories of ICE exercise within the neighborhood.
The Division of Homeland Safety had beforehand introduced a rise in immigration enforcement exercise within the Minneapolis space.
9:35:05 a.m. (native time)
2 minutes earlier than the taking pictures
Renee Nicole Good’s Honda Pilot is stopped diagonally on Portland Avenue whereas at the very least 4 automobiles go perpendicularly, based on video footage recorded by Reini-Grandell.
The passenger aspect entrance window is closed whereas the rear window is largely open. Seconds later, at the very least three federal brokers sporting masks are seen strolling towards the Honda Pilot, as bystanders will be heard whistling and yelling at officers.
9:36:51 a.m.
22 seconds earlier than the taking pictures
A girl who would later establish herself as Good’s companion stands behind the Honda Pilot and seems to query a federal agent, based on video obtained by native lawyer Daniel Suitor that was shared with ABC Information. The girl and the agent seem to be holding up cellphones filming one another.
The Honda Pilot will be seen shifting very barely ahead whereas the girl and agent are behind the automobile. The car then stops.
This agent would subsequently transfer alongside the Honda Pilot’s passenger aspect and place himself within the entrance of the automobile.
9:36:58 a.m.
15 seconds earlier than the taking pictures
A Ford Explorer with California license plates that had been on the aspect of Portland Avenue will be seen on video pulling out onto the road. A special video reveals Good’s driver-side entrance window is open, and he or she seems to gesture for the Ford Explorer to go in entrance of her Honda Pilot, which it does.
Good continues to wave her hand from left to proper after the Ford passes as two different officers are seen pulling up in an unmarked Nissan Titan pickup truck with flashing pink and blue lights. They cease in the course of the road.
9:37:08 a.m.
5 seconds earlier than the taking pictures
The 2 officers in the Nissan Titan are seen on video exiting their car. They method the Honda Pilot, ordering Good to “get out of the automobile.” Whereas they are approaching, the Honda Pilot is put in reverse. The officer who emerged from the motive force’s aspect of the Nissan Titan places his left hand on the underside of the Honda Pilot’s driver-side entrance window and his proper hand on the door deal with, showing to attempt to open the door. His palms stay in that place whereas the Honda Pilot backs up just a few ft, with the entrance wheels of the automobile pointed to the left because the automobile backs up.
Regulation enforcement try to enter a car previous to an ICE officer fatally taking pictures the motive force throughout an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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The federal agent who was strolling behind the Honda Pilot then strikes alongside the fitting of the automobile so he’s standing to the front-left of the car.
Because the Honda Pilot then begins to maneuver ahead, the wheels start to show to the fitting, away from the place the ICE agent is standing.
9:37:13 a.m.
Gunfire erupts
The federal agent standing to the front-left of the car pulls out his gun.
The second of the taking pictures is captured in at the very least three separate movies verified by ABC Information.
Along with his proper hand on his drawn firearm, the federal agent’s left hand remains to be on his telephone, with each pointed on the Honda Pilot. He fires the primary shot by way of the entrance windshield towards Good at 9:37:13 a.m., based on ABC Information’ metadata evaluation.
About fourth-tenths of a second after the primary shot, because the automobile continues to maneuver ahead, a second shot is heard.
Regulation enforcement officers are seen after an ICE officer fatally shot the motive force of a car throughout an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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It is troublesome to see precisely what occurs because the Honda Pilot passes the agent who opened hearth. DHS Secretary Noem advised reporters the agent was struck by the car.
The federal agent stays upright and can then be seen on the left of the passing car, going through the motive force’s aspect door. The sound of a 3rd gunshot then rings out.
The time between the primary shot and second shot is 399 milliseconds, with 299 milliseconds between the second and third pictures, ABC Information’ evaluation reveals. There are three pictures in whole that may be heard on digicam.
9:37:55 a.m.
Moments after the taking pictures
Three seconds after the taking pictures, the Honda Pilot crashes right into a parked automobile on the aspect of Portland Avenue, video footage reveals. It then inches off the aspect of the one-way avenue, into the snow close to a tree. The lady who later recognized herself as Good’s companion rushes to the Honda Pilot. The federal agent who shot Good can also be seen strolling towards the automobile.
The agent is then seen on video strolling again after wanting on the driver’s aspect of the car, as a bystander is heard yelling “disgrace.” The agent will be heard saying “name 911.” The lady later recognized as Good’s companion can subsequently be seen kneeling into the Honda Pilot. It is not clear from the video what Good’s situation is at that second.
9:42:03 a.m.
Good stays in her automobile
Minutes after Good is shot, she stays contained in the Honda Pilot, video footage reveals. Bystanders plead with DHS brokers to let a person recognized as a doctor verify on Good. The brokers refuse, saying they’ve their very own medics and that EMS personnel are on the best way.
9:43:14 a.m.
Firefighters method the scene
Greater than six minutes after pictures rang out, native first responders are seen on video arriving on the website of Good’s crashed Honda Pilot. An EMS technician or firefighter begins pulling Good’s physique from the automobile and firefighters begin to render help to Good.
9:45:30 a.m.
Good is carried from the scene
Firefighters carry Good to the nook of Portland Avenue and thirty fourth Avenue the place they seem to start administering CPR. Seven minutes later, Good’s physique will be seen on video being carried into an ambulance.
10:26 a.m.
The Metropolis of Minneapolis posts a message on X stating, “We’re conscious of a taking pictures involving federal regulation enforcement close to East thirty fourth Avenue and Portland Avenue. Please keep away from this space.”
10:46 a.m.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz posts on social media, “My public security group is working to assemble data on an ICE associated taking pictures this morning. We’ll share data as we be taught extra. Within the meantime, I ask people to stay calm.”
11:23 a.m.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) posts on social media, “A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE brokers in Minneapolis. I am gathering data, however the scenario on the bottom is risky. ICE ought to depart now for everybody’s security. Please be protected Minneapolis.”
11:45 a.m.
The U.S. Division of Homeland Safety issues a statement on social media saying {that a} “violent” rioter “weaponized her car” and tried to run over and kill an ICE officer in what the company calls an “act of home terrorism.”
DHS’ assertion confirms that the lady who was shot died. The company says that the ICE officer who opened hearth adopted his coaching and shot the lady in self-defense.
12:35 p.m.
At a information convention, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the ICE agent “recklessly” used his energy and calls ICE’s self-defense declare “bulls—.”
“Get the f—” out of Minneapolis,” Frey says in a message to ICE.
2:28 p.m.
President Donald Trump addresses the taking pictures in a social media submit, calling video footage of the taking pictures “a horrible factor to observe” and stating that “it’s onerous to imagine” the ICE officer was alive.
“The lady screaming was, clearly, knowledgeable agitator, and the lady driving the automobile was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who appears to have shot her in self protection,” Trump writes partially.
ABC Information’ Gaby Vinick, Victoria Beaule, Helena Skinner, Lena Camilletti and Mike Pappano contributed to this report.
