DHS probes whether agents killed VA nurse following accidental discharge during Minneapolis ICE raid

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether U.S. Border Patrol agents thought they were being fired upon erstwhile 1 fatally changeable Alex Pretti connected a Minneapolis thoroughfare implicit the weekend. 

The New York Post reported that an accidental discharge of Pretti's Sig Sauer P320 pistol, which was being held by an cause aft it was taken distant from him, whitethorn person made authorities judge their lives were successful danger.

Pretti, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, who was legally permitted to transportation the weapon, was fired upon astir 10 times and died astatine the scene. 

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This undated photograph provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the antheral who was changeable by a national serviceman successful Minneapolis connected Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026.  (Michael Pretti via AP)

Officials initially said Pretti was brandishing the limb arsenic national officers were conducting migration enforcement operations. 

"It was 100% an accidental discharge by the cause that relieved that idiosyncratic of their weapon. Because everyone’s guns were out, they deliberation that there’s a shooting," 1 root told the Post. 

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti "violently resisted" apprehension and that a national cause fired his limb "fearing for his life."

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks beside a surface showing an representation of a handgun during a property league successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)

Footage of the incidental shows an cause disarm Pretti soon earlier helium was killed. He entered into the archetypal scuffle with agents arsenic helium tried to assistance different protester who had been pushed by instrumentality enforcement.

Sources acquainted with the probe told the paper that the agents progressive were overworked and not trained to woody with protesters oregon types of confrontation they person endured portion going astir their duties. 

"None of those agents should’ve had their weapon out. It’s a confluence of them being asked to bash enforcement enactment that they are not trained for," 1 root said.

A photograph of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally changeable by a U.S. Border Patrol serviceman implicit the weekend, is displayed astatine the shooting country Monday successful Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether U.S. Border Patrol agents thought they were being fired upon erstwhile 1 fatally changeable Pretti. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

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"All of this is avoidable. None of this should beryllium happening."

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that borderline czar Tom Homan would beryllium going to Minnesota amid convulsive clashes betwixt national authorities and anti-ICE agitators.