Alex Pretti, federal and Department of Homeland Security
Digest more
New affidavits filed in court detail how witnesses were arrested immediately after the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Alex Pretti shooting follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good weeks earlier. Minneapolis gun laws allowed Pretti to carry a weapon. See the timeline.
The decision to place HSI in the lead investigative role is unusual and has raised questions among current and former federal law enforcement officials.
This weekend, the family, co-workers and friends of Alex Pretti, who was killed by immigration agents in a confrontation after he was apparently filming them, remembered his life, even as the circumstances of his death were debated on the national stage.
3hon MSN
Officials say Alex Pretti 'brandished' a weapon, but have offered no evidence. Why that term matters
Federal officials have claimed Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by at least one Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis Saturday, “brandished” a firearm to officers.
Family members identified Green Bay native Alex Pretti as the man fatally shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as a former classmate described him as kind and nonviolent amid ongoing protests.
The former president accused the administration of being "eager to escalate the situation," and encouraged Americans to keep protesting for their rights.
Two vastly different accounts emerged of the man a Border Patrol agent fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Colleagues and family described 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex J. Pretti as a compassionate, skilled nurse who was " troubled " by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown on the Twin Cities.
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order to prevent evidence altered in the Alex Pretti investigation.
People who knew a man fatally shot by federal agents pushed back against what they called a smear campaign by federal officials. “He was a good man,” his family said.
Over $530,000 had been donated by the afternoon of Jan. 25, a little over a day after Pretti, an ICU nurse, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent.