A nurse who spent his life caring for others was killed on a Minneapolis street in a confrontation that federal authorities have not yet fully explained. On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital and a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by a United States Border Patrol agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis. It was the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in the city that month, contributing to heightened concern over enforcement tactics. Pretti quickly became known not...
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