For the second time in three weeks, a person has been killed in Minneapolis by ICE agents.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, the man killed Saturday morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, described as “a 37-year-old ICU nurse from south Minneapolis.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference that Pretti had no criminal record, aside from some parking tickets. And both O’Hara and Gov. Tim Walz said that Pretti was registered to legally carry a gun.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti. White male born in Illinois. University of Minnesota graduate, medical professional employed at the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, avid outdoorsman & dog dad, legal gun owner with no criminal record.
Murdered by his government 01/24/2026 pic.twitter.com/Bk2c18zEuK
— Kris Cromwell (@IngleWitch) January 24, 2026
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“I share the intense grief and anger of so many that another Minnesotan — Alex Pretti, 37 years old, an ICU nurse who served veterans — was fatally shot during the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge,“ Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement.
Spent two seconds researching Alex Pretti, the man this administration immediately called a domestic terrorist pic.twitter.com/Ey0QoNey1O
— Pablo Torre 👀 (@PabloTorre) January 24, 2026
“He was a kind, friendly, jokey person,” Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, a friend and colleague of Pretti, told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “Regardless of which hospital you’re in, taking a job in the ICU, it means that you’re up for a challenge, and it means you’re confident in your skills — because you’re going to see the sickest people in the hospital, and some of your patients are going to die. You’re going to have to have the personal skills with family, you’re going to have the technical skills to try to keep their loved one alive. He was great at it.”
