Minneapolis Shooting: Latest Updates from NPR
- Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S.
- Immigration officials said Pretti was shot several times shortly after 9 a.m.
- Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and an ICU nurse, has been identified by officials as the shooting victim.
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Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning.
Immigration officials said Pretti was shot several times shortly after 9 a.m. local time when federal officers were conducting a targeted operation against a different man who was undocumented and wanted for assault.
Here is what to know.
The victim was an ICU nurse who loved the outdoors
Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and an ICU nurse, has been identified by officials as the shooting victim.
The victim’s father Michael pretti told the Associated Press his son had participated in the protests becuase he “cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.”
His mother, Susan Pretti, told the AP her son was passionate about the environment and “took his dog everywhere he went.”
neighbors were also shocked by his death. Jeanne Wiener, who lived next door to Pretti, told MPR News that she would chat with him when he was walking his dog around their Lyndale neighborhood.
“He was a calm person; he’s a nurse,” Wiener said Saturday. “I’m mad. I’m angry. This was a good pe
“This looks like a situation were an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement,” Noem told reporters during a press conference.
Officials said Pretti had a 9mm semiautomatic handgun with him.
gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol commander, said the officer who fired shots was “highly trained” and has worked as a Border Patrol agent for the last eight years. Bovino said the shooting remains under investigation.
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