Does a viral still image actually show the moment an ICE agent fired at Minneapolis resident Renee Good? No, that's not true: The details of the scene don't match real eyewitness videos of the event. The image was first published by an account with a parody label, and that account later said the picture was created by AI.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X where it was published on January 8, 2026. It opened:
she made contact with him and started moving forward before he fired his weapon.
The post showed this image on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/CHItraders)
Several other variations of the picture circulated on social media, and they cropped the white watermark seen above either fully (archived here) or partially (archived here):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/CryptoEmpressX)
The still image, however, did not document the moment when Renee Good, 37, was shot to death in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026.
Eyewitness videos (archived here), previously verified by other media outlets (including this clip), captured a person with short light hair, not someone wearing a sleek, rather blondish ponytail:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
Furthermore, unlike the image in question, neither the view of the shooting's location on Google Maps from 2022 nor the 2026 eyewitness footage showed yellow lines on the road:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of image at google.com/maps)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/maxnesterak)
The full watermark seen in the claim reviewed in this fact check led to a January 7, 2026, post (archived here) by a social media user labeled as a "parody account" (archived here) who published the image first.
That account wrote that day in the comment section that the picture was generated by AI:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at https://x.com/ScummyMummy511)
