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16:27 13 January
No evidence for Renee Nicole Good’s alleged ‘criminal record’ sheet
Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist
An image claiming to show that the woman shot and killed by a US immigration officer last week had an extensive criminal record has been widely shared on social media.
It lists offences for which Renee Nicole Good had supposedly been arrested in the past, including “battery of a police officer” and “interfering with medical treatment”.
But there are several incorrect details in the image, including her supposed date of birth. US authorities say
Good was 37 years old , externalwhen she was killed, external and therefore could not have been born in October 1980, as the image claims.
Image source,Renee Nicole Good
Also, her name and middle name are the wrong way round. The image lists her as “Good, Nicole Renee”.
And there’s no publicly available evidence that she committed, or was even accused of committing, the crimes it lists.
BBC Verify searched US public records databases for the name “Renee Nicole Good” and three other surnames she is reported to have previously used, “Ganger”, “Sheppard” and “Macklin”.
We found a profile for someone that included all of those names and other details matching what we know about Good, such as her approximate year of birth and places she has lived.
It lists one offence, “fail to have vehicle inspected”, allegedly committed in Virginia in 2017.
We searched another database of US court records and only found a 2019 filing in Virginia for a bankruptcy case involving a person called Renee Nicole Good.