https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-24-2026

National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man

Edited By CURTIS YEE, PAMELA SAMPSON, BRIDGET BROWN, PETER ORSI and NELL CLARK

A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a 37-year-old man was killed but declined to identify him. He added that information about what led up to the shooting was limited. The man was identified by his parents as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse. The officer who shot Pretti is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials said.

The Minnesota National Guard has been activated by Gov. Tim Walz and is assisting local police amid growing protests. Guard troops are going to both the shooting site and a federal building where officials have squared off with protesters daily.

The shooting happened amid widespread daily protests in the Twin Cities since the Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good, who was killed when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fired into her vehicle. Pretti was killed just over a mile away from where Good was shot.

Here’s what we know:

Family members say the victim, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration who cared deeply about people and was upset by Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city. Pretti, 37, had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement officer earlier this month.


Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that federal officers fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them and “violently resisted” when officers tried to disarm him. The police chief believed the man was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.”

Several bystander videos of the shooting emerged soon after. Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand, but no videos appear to show him with a visible weapon.

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