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Did Renee Nicole Good mock Charlie Kirk's death? Here's the truth behind viral photo
Social media posts falsely claim Renee Nicole Good celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death; the image used is doctored, taken from protest footage with her face pasted.
Social media is flooded with rumors about Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7. One such rumor claims that Good mocked the death of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA shot dead at Utah Valley University in September 2025.
A photo has gone viral on social media, which claims that Renee Nicole Good posted on social media with a thumbs-up gesture, allegedly celebrating and mocking the death of Charlie Kirk. Thousands of such posts have gone viral on social media platforms like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, among others.
However, the photo appears to be a doctored image of Renee Nicole Good. The original photo appears to have been screenshotted from a popular anti-ICE protest video.
The video shows Lucy Martinez, a Chicago teacher filmed at a "No Kings" protest in October 2025, making gestures interpreted as mocking Charlie Kirk's death. The face of Martinez has been removed, and Renee Nicole Good's face, from one of the widely circulated photos of her, has been put in its place.
Additionally, the photo does not have a caption attached to it mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination, contrary to what the viral posts claim.
Here are the two photos compared side-by-side:
Here's the original footage of Lucy Dominguez from where the photo has been screenshotted:
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Truth Behind Renee Nicole Good's Viral Arrest Records
Similarly, claims that Renee Nicole Good was arrested for child abuse are also being circulated with an alleged arrest record with a mugshot of the 37-year-old in circulation. However, much like the image of Good allegedly celebrating Kirk's death, these arrest records, too, appear to be doctored images.
On many of such X posts, a readers' added context has been added which notes that the birth of the individual showed in the arrest records shows 1980, which would make the person at 45 years old. However, it is confirmed that Renee Good was 37-year-old at the time of her death.
