MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — The Green Bay Public School District has identified that 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a 2006 graduate of Preble High School.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara confirmed earlier on Saturday that a 37-year-old man died after being shot by federal immigration officers. Pretti's parents then identified him as the man who was killed.
Pretti was an intensive care unit nurse.
O'Hara added that information about what led up to the shooting was limited. Federal officials did confirm that the officer who shot Pretti is an eight-year Border Patrol veteran.
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.
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 to the shooting site and to a federal building where officials have squared off with protesters daily.
Walz, a Democrat, said in a social media post that he had been in contact with the White House after the shooting. He urged President Donald Trump to end what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.
“Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now,” Walz said in a post on X.
DHS distributed a photo of a handgun they said was on the person who was shot.
After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.” Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.
The shooting happened a day after thousands of demonstrators protesting the crackdown on immigrants crowded the city’s streets in frigid weather, calling for federal law enforcement to leave.
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Associated Press writer Jim Mustian contributed from New York.
This story was updated to reflect that the man who was shot and killed was confirmed to be a 37-year-old man by the Minneapolis Police Chief, not a 51-year-old man as was originally reported.
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