Viral photo shows the woman killed by an ICE agent Jan. 7 in Minneapolis.

After an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, social media users started posting images they said showed the woman. But in the midst of the breaking news, users misidentified her. 

The photo shows a short-haired woman wearing red lipstick, eyeliner and a green sweater, and some users said she was the 37-year-old killed when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot into her vehicle. 

“This is Renee Nicole Good, a dedicated wife and mother who was killed by Donald Trump’s ICE thugs today,” reads an X post with over 600,000 views. “RETWEET to honor Good’s memory.”

Other users made similar claims on X, Facebook, Threads and Instagram. 

Federal, state and local officials have given conflicting narratives of the shooting, but the woman in that photo isn’t Good. 

Doing a reverse image search, we found the photo in a 2020 Facebook post from the English department at Old Dominion University, where Good went to college in Norfolk, Virginia. 

The post congratulated the winners and honorable mentions of the Academy of American Poets 2020 Old Dominion University College Poetry Prize. 

The department shared photos of multiple students in the post, including one of Good, who was among the winners. The post identified her as Renee Macklin, which was her name at the time. But social media users shared another image of another woman recognized in the post. The university identified this person in the photo’s caption as another woman. 

(Screenshot of a photo of Good on the Facebook page of the English department where she went to college.)

PolitiFact reviewed multiple other photos of Good shared by local and national media outlets and none show the short-haired woman in the image circulating online. 

The claims that this person is Good are False.