Renee Nicole Ganger was born in 1988 in Colorado, the daughter of Timothy Dee and Donna Marie (Cook) Ganger. She attended Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated in 2006. Renee was a member of the show choir when she was a junior and a senior. In 2005, she was a member of the school’s “Community Crew”. The yearbook states: “For those of you here at Coronado who don’t know what the acronym for the club FCCLA means, to help with your bewilderment, FCCLA stands for: Family, Career, Community and Leadership. Also, for those of you who haven’t even heard of FCCLA, here are some clues for you! FCCLA is an organization that provides opportunities for personal development and enables the students to be successful in their careers and with their families. The members of the club are involved in community service such as tutoring children. They also compete in culinary competitions.” Renee was registered to vote in Colorado at least by 2008. Renee was married in 2009 in Denver to her first husband; they were both living in Colorado Springs at the time of their marriage. Renee’s first husband is the father of Renee’s two older children, ages 15 and 12. Renee was married a second time in 2018 at the American Mother’s Chapel in Colorado Springs to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr.; both gave Hampton, Virginia as their residence at the time of their marriage. USA Today’s online version reported: “[Renee] Good, originally from Colorado Springs, went on to study creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. …The award-winning poet hosted a podcast with her then husband, Tim Macklin, and graduated in 2020, according to the school. ‘When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons,’ the school said.”
Tim was the father of Renee’s six-year-old son. He passed away at the age of only thirty-six years in 2023. His obituary from Hillside Chapel in Oregon City, Oregon: “Timmy Ray Macklin Jr. (36) passed away on May 25th, 2023. He was a loving son, devoted brother, and nurturing father, embodying love and selflessness. Born on December 29, 1986, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Timmy spent his early life here and on the Oregon Coast. Timmy dedicated 14 years to the United States Air Force before retiring. He found joy in spreading happiness through his pursuit of stand-up comedy and embarking on the journey of fatherhood. Timmy is survived by his parents…his grandparents…his siblings…well as his children.”
Extractions here are as reported by USA Today:
- Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Good lived with her partner in Minneapolis and was a compassionate woman who had "taken care of people all her life. "She was loving, forgiving and affectionate," Ganger told the newspaper. "She was an amazing human being."
- Good's father, Tim Ganger, told the Post his daughter lived with her parents in Valley Falls, Kansas for a time after Macklin's death. “She had a good life, but a hard life,” Ganger told the outlet. “She was a wonderful person.” Good also spent about two years living in Kansas City, Missouri, according to records obtained by KMBC. Joan Rose told the outlet her former neighbor was "not a terrorist. Not an extremist. That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse."
- Mary Radford, 27, told the Star Tribune that Good had recently moved in next door to her in Minnesota and she had had “wonderful conversations" with her family. “We’re gonna miss seeing them — forever,” she said. A GoFundMe that USA TODAY is working to verify says that donated funds will go toward Good's wife and son "as they grapple with the devastating loss of their wife and mother. It describes Good as "pure sunshine, pure love."
- The Minneapolis City Council said in a statement to NPR that Good "was out caring for her neighbors" when the confrontation happened. Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar described Good as a "legal observer." Legal observers often attend police actions to document and monitor law enforcement behavior − a common practice used by activists from the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s to Northern Ireland during The Troubles. A LinkedIn profile that appears to be Good's lists her as a working in real estate investment and property management and renovation. Good's mother, Ganger, told the Tribune that her daughter wasn't “part of anything like that at all,” referring to protesters who have been obstructing ICE agents. She said her daughter "was probably terrified.”
The United States of America used to be a place where persecuted people around the world would come for refuge. This used to be a place where people, no matter their roots, choices or circumstances, could live free without fear. Our nation has become a place we no longer recognize, where roving bands of unidentified armed thugs are allowed to snatch our family members, neighbors and friends from their homes, their work, their neighborhoods – at gunpoint, with no accountability for what will happen next. Often the loved ones of those who are taken have no idea where, when or if they will ever see or speak to them again. ICE “agents” ignore the laws and use the smallest pretext for conducting badly planned and nearly always violent raids – an accent, a spoken language other than English, the color of someone’s skin. No one is safe. Renee Nicole Good lost her life only because she was watching, trying to make those thugs act with more caution, hoping to protect another human being in danger. The people that did this to her, and all those like them, must be stopped. Those who have been involved with the commission of these atrocities must be prosecuted. And they must be punished. When you take someone else’s rights from them, you don’t get to have yours anymore. There’s a good use for all the immigration detention centers – they can be used to imprison all the thugs who have used ICE credentials to persecute human beings in America.
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