Norfolk photographer labored with & mentored Renee Good, ODU alumna killed by ICE

NORFOLK, Va. — We are persevering with to be taught extra about Renee Good, the Old Dominion University alumna who was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.

While Good lived in Hampton Roads, she sat down with News 3 anchor Erin Miller for an interview in 2022 — then, Renee Macklin. She graduated from ODU in 2020 with a level in English and spent her time on campus creating abilities as a author and photographer.

Charles Winslow labored with and mentored Good on pictures throughout her time at ODU.

Winslow owns a pictures enterprise and hires photographers for sporting occasions. Good needed to be taught and improve her writing whereas in school, Winslow stated.

“From the first day of shooting, she was fantastic, she has an eye for it,” Winslow stated.

Good labored every little thing from basketball video games to NASCAR races. Other occasions, Winslow, Good and a small group of pictures pals would head to Virginia Beach.

“We’d get the highest room we could get on the beach and we’ll all camp out and shoot the sunrise in the morning because she needed those sunrises for her poems and her books,” Winslow stated.

After Good graduated in 2020, the 2 ultimately misplaced contact. When Winslow first heard concerning the capturing, he stated he was shocked. Around 4 or 5 hours later, a few of his photographers known as him about it.

“When they told me Renee, I was like, ‘no, it’s a mistake,'” Winslow stated. “Someone mixed this up and, no. It was her. As soon as I saw her photo, I couldn’t believe it. The first thing I thought of was New York.”

Every yr in January and February, Winslow and Good would journey to New York to take photos of the homeless. They used these photographs for the ACLU in New York to boost consciousness for the homeless.

That is the particular person Winslow stated he remembers — somebody who cared for others, lived life freely and needed folks to get alongside.

“If there was an argument, she would be the first one to break it up,” Winslow stated. “She would tell people, ‘don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it.'”