The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken over the case of the fatal shooting of a woman by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis, amid growing tensions over the incident across the state.
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement that the BCA would no longer be involved in the investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, a mother of three who was shot dead by a federal agent in her car on Wednesday.
“The investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation,” Evans said on Thursday.
He added that while it had previously been agreed that the BCA would investigate the shooting, the US attorney’s office changed that.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Democratic attorney general, told CNN the FBI’s decision was “deeply disturbing.”
According to Ellison, state authorities could investigate with or without the cooperation of the federal government, adding that with the evidence he has seen so far, not all of which has been made public, state charges were a possibility.
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