Alex Jeffrey Pretti: Minneapolis shooting victim named after US citizen, 37, was killed by federal agent
A Minneapolis man who was gunned down during a struggle with federal agents has been identified by local media as Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
Sources told the Star Tribune that Pretti was the man killed following an altercation on Saturday involving multiple officers.
Minneapolis police identified the deceased as a white, male, 37-year-old US citizen native to the city.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Mail that he was armed and had two magazines on him at the time he was detained.
The agency later shared a photograph of a nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun which it said was recovered from the individual during the clash.
Video shows the agents wrestled with the man and took him to the ground.
The chaos unfolded just after 9am near Glam Doll Donuts at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
DHS said agents were in the area looking to apprehend, ‘an illegal alien wanted for violent assault’ when they were approached by the deceased.
A Minneapolis man has been killed after being shot by a Border Patrol officer during a struggle
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Mail that the deceased was armed with two magazines, and the gun has since been recovered by federal authorities (pictured)
They claimed officers attempted to disarm him but he ‘violently resisted’ before he was shot by a Border Patrol agent.
Federal agents were seen deploying tear gas amidst mounting protests
The man was pronounced dead the scene, officials said at a press briefing. DHS said that he did not have any identification on him.
The incident marks the third shooting in recent weeks involving federal agents in Minneapolis.
It comes after an Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally Renee Nicole Good on January 7 and another federal agent wounded a man about a week later.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said Saturday that federal agents deployed in Minneapolis as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown had carried out ‘another horrific shooting,’ less than three weeks after the fatal shooting of Good.
‘I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,’ Walz said on X.
‘The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.’
Thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as President Donald Trump presses his campaign to deport undocumented immigrants across the country.
The killing on Saturday was immediately met with protest as bystanders gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them ‘cowards’ and telling them to go home.
A protester appeared to be detained after an ICE agent reportedly shot a man several times in Minneapolis
Local police identified the man as a white 37-year-old US citizen from Minneapolis
A federal agent and a protestor pictured face to face amidst widespread protests
Minneapolis has been rocked by increasingly tense protests since federal agents shot and killed Good, a US citizen, on January 7.
An autopsy concluded that the killing was a homicide, a classification that does not automatically mean a crime was committed.
The officer who fired the shots that killed Good, Jonathan Ross, has neither been suspended nor charged.
