Renee Good, Woman Killed by ICE, Traveled to N.Y.C. to Feed, Photograph Homeless People: ‘She Wanted to Know Their Stories’ (Exclusive)

A professional photographer who worked with Good remembers her as “an angel”

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  • A photographer who knew Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, tells PEOPLE Good once traveled with him to New York City to feed and photograph homeless people
  • Charles Willie Winslow II says he first started working with Good in April 2021, when she began shooting sports games with him at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
  • Winslow also traveled to New York City with Good, whom he said brought other photographers to tears while asking for the stories of the homeless subjects they photographed on the streets

One professional photographer who worked alongside Renee Nicole Good before the 37-year-old was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis this week is remembering the mother of three for her compassion and kindness.

Charles Willie Winslow II tells PEOPLE that Good was “an angel” and “a perfect person.” Winslow, 61, who was born and raised in New York, regularly travels to New York City with a group of non-professional photographers to take pictures across the five boroughs. Good joined one such trip in winter 2022, where Winslow and the others photographed homeless New Yorkers at night.

Winslow says the photos the group took were shared with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, “but it was mainly to bring awareness to the homelessness in New York, the streets of New York.”…

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