The Killing of Alex Pretti

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I don't know Mr. Pretti's religious beliefs, but I do know he came to the aid of two women, one of which had been savagely shoved to the pavement by a federal agent.  It is reported that Alex Pretti's last words were "Are you okay?" This tells me that Alex Pretti had a compassionate heart and actually acted like a Christian is supposed to act when they see someone in distress. He did not deserve to be killed by a gang of federal agents. Angela Wittman, ed.

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Killing of Alex Pretti

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On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti,[1] a 37-year-old American intensive care nurse for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot and killed by United States Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This occurred amid widespread protests against a federal immigration crackdown and followed the January 7 fatal shooting of Renée Good, also by federal officers.

Video recordings of the incident showed Pretti filming law enforcement agents with his phone and directing traffic. Pretti stood between an agent and a woman whom the agent had pushed to the ground, putting his arm around the woman.[2] He was subsequently pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground by several federal agents, with around six surrounding him when he was shot and killed.[3][4][5] Bystander video verified and reviewed by Reuters, the BBC, the The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press (AP) appears to show an agent removing a gun and moving away from Pretti less than a second before another agent fires at him;[6][7][8][9] AP reported a voice is heard saying "gun, gun" right before the first shot.[10]

According to The Guardian, while Pretti was legally licensed to carry a handgun, the publicly available video evidence reviewed by the paper does not show him holding one.[11] In reviewing video evidence, Reuters, the BBC and The New York Times all concluded that he was holding a cell phone, not a gun, in the moments before being tackled.[7][9][12] Agents appear to shoot at him at least ten times within five seconds, beginning while he was pinned to the ground and continuing after he collapsed and his body lay motionless.[9][12][8]

The Trump administration defended the shooting.[13] The shooting accelerated ongoing protests against US immigration forces locally and nationally.[14] As with the Renée Good case, state investigators were denied access to the shooting scene by the federal government.[15]

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti biography

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a 37-year-old American citizen living in the Lyndale neighborhood[26] of Minneapolis, Minnesota.[27][28][29]

Pretti was born in Illinois to a family with northern Italian ancestry and grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[30][31] He graduated from the public Preble High School in 2006.[32] He then attended the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and graduated in 2011.[33]

Pretti was hired in 2014 as a research assistant in the clinical research program at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System.[34] He had been a registered nurse in Minnesota since 2021.[34] At the time of his death, Pretti held an active nursing license and was an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis.[35][36] He was a member of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a nationwide labor union representing employees of the United States federal government.[30][34]

According to Chief Brian O'Hara of the Minneapolis Police Department, Pretti was a lawful gun owner who had a Minnesota state permit to carry a gun,[37] and had no criminal record.[28][38]

Pretti had participated in protests against the killing of Renée Good earlier in January 2026.[32] His father told reporters that Pretti had acknowledged warnings from his parents to be careful while protesting.[28][39] Pretti's death occured less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from his home.[40]


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