The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday they are no longer part of the investigation into an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis because the U.S. Attorney’s Office “reversed course.”

After the Wednesday shooting, there was consultation with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI, according to a BCA statement. It was decided the BCA’s Force Investigations Unit would conduct a joint investigation with the FBI.

“The BCA responded promptly to the scene and began coordinating investigative work in good faith,” BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement. “Later that afternoon, the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: 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.”

Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was shot Wednesday at 34th Street and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis.

Video taken by bystanders posted to social media shows an officer approaching her car, demanding she open the door and grabbing the handle. When she begins to pull forward, a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range.

Trump administration officials painted Macklin Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car. Her ex-husband said she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.

As for the investigation, if the BCA doesn’t have “complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” Evans said. As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation.”

Evans also said they “expect the FBI to conduct a thorough and complete investigation and that the full investigative file will be shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities at both the state and federal levels.”

If the U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI “were to reconsider this approach and express a willingness to resume a joint investigation, the BCA is prepared to reengage in support of our shared goal of public safety in Minnesota,” Evans wrote.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. This is a developing story and will be updated.The initially were going to investigate with the FBI

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