The shooters of Alex Pretti were reportedly identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are both officers with Customs and Border Protection, ProPublica reports Pretti was the second person killed by federal agents in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Source
US President Donald Trump on Sunday (February 1) warned that federal authorities would not intervene in protests or unrest in Democratic-run cities unless local governments formally request assistance, while pledging a forceful response to protect federal property. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he had instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi…
US President Donald Trump said Alex Pretti was “crazed, out of control,” referring to viral videos of the ICU nurse’s unruly confrontation with federal immigration agents during a Minneapolis protest, days before he was shot dead. Trump also praised the ICE agent for being “calm and cool” during the entire encounter. In a Truth Social…
11 days before he was shot and killed by Border Patrol officers, Alex Pretti was captured having an unruly confrontation with federal immigration agents during a Minneapolis protest. In the now viral video, Pretti, 37, an intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, could be seen shouting an expletive at the federal officers…
Federal immigration agents involved in the killing of 37‑year‑old US citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday have been placed on administrative leave amid public outrage, MS NOW reported. His death came less than three weeks after Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was also killed on January 7 by an ICE agent…
Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, has called on President Donald Trump to immediately fire Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, amid the unfolding situation in Minneapolis. In a post on “I make a direct appeal to immediately fire @Sec_Noem,” Fetterman wrote. “Americans have died. She is betraying DHS’s core mission and trashing…
The chief federal judge in Minnesota has ordered the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to appear personally in court, saying the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders requiring bond hearings for detained immigrants. In an order dated Monday (January 26), Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz directed Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting…
US President Donald Trump will travel to Iowa on Tuesday (January 27) as part of the White House’s midterm-year push on affordability, even as his administration faces mounting scrutiny over a second fatal shooting by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota this month. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump will visit a local…
While US federal investigators maintain that Alex Pretty was armed during a fatal confrontation with Border Patrol in Minneapolis, contrasting video evidence, eyewitness reports, and family testimony have cast doubt on that narrative. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and an American citizen, was killed on Saturday during what authorities labeled a “targeted” immigration operation in…
A federal judge in Minnesota has issued a temporary restraining order against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), barring federal officials from destroying or altering evidence related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. The order was granted late Saturday at the request of the Minnesota Bureau of…
