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DENVER (KDVR) — Some Colorado lawmakers are issuing statements after a woman with local ties was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Several news outlets like the Minnesota Star Tribune have reported that the woman, identified by family members as Renee Good, was from Colorado, citing her assumed Instagram profile which said she was “from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.”

Video of the incident posted online shows an officer approach a Honda Pilot that was stopped across the middle of the road, grabbing the door handle and ordering the driver to open the door. Good began pulling the vehicle forward when another ICE officer near the front of the SUV pulled out his firearm and shot the woman at close range at least twice and jumped away from the approaching vehicle, which accelerated and crashed. Whether the officer was hit by the vehicle is unclear from the video.

The shooting is being investigated by the FBI, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the U.S. attorney’s office has prevented it from participating in the investigation.

Federal officials defended the officer’s actions and are claiming the woman was trying to run over the officer, who acted in self-defense.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer followed his training when he shot the 37-year-old mother of three. Noem said during a media briefing on Wednesday that Good was allegedly trying to block officers with her vehicle, was harassing them throughout the day and tried to run an officer over. On Thursday, she encouraged the public to thank the officers.

“They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against the law, and when they [ICE] demanded and commanded her to come out of her vehicle several times she did not,” said Noem.

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X Wednesday. “He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”