{"id":4013,"date":"2026-01-26T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:35:28","slug":"37-year-old-alex-pretti-identified-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"37-Year-Old Alex Pretti Identified as"},"content":{"rendered":"

1) What Happened<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal immigration agents shot and killed 37\u2011year\u2011old Alex Jeffrey Pretti<\/p>\n

during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on January 24.<\/p>\n

Officials said an officer fired in self\u2011defense after Pretti \u201cresisted attempts to disarm him,\u201d<\/p>\n

but video shows him holding only a phone when the confrontation escalated.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

2) Who He Was<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pretti was a U.S. citizen and intensive care unit nurse at the Minneapolis VA.<\/p>\n

Colleagues remembered him as caring: \u201cHe wanted to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n

His family said he was upset about immigration actions and<\/p>\n

protested because he \u201ccared about people deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

3) Reaction and Context<\/strong><\/p>\n

His death is the second such shooting this month,<\/p>\n

fueling protests and calls for<\/p>\n

investigations into federal immigration tactics.<\/p>\n

4) Ongoing Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both parties are<\/p>\n

demanding transparency and a<\/p>\n

thorough review of the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) What Happened Federal immigration agents shot and killed 37\u2011year\u2011old Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on January 24. Officials said an officer fired in self\u2011defense after Pretti \u201cresisted attempts to disarm him,\u201d but video shows him holding only a phone when the confrontation escalated. 2) Who He Was Pretti was a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}