Narratives clash after Trump and victim's family react to second Minneapolis ICE shooting

Narratives implicit the Minneapolis shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti clashed implicit the play arsenic President Donald Trump's medication accused him of violently resisting arrest, portion his household remembered him arsenic a "kind-hearted soul."

Pretti, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, is the 2nd anti-ICE protester to beryllium changeable and killed successful Minneapolis this month. Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said the victim, who was armed, "violently resisted" apprehension and that the ICE cause fired his limb "fearing for his life."

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

A national justice soon blocked the Trump medication from "destroying oregon altering evidence" related to the shooting connected Sunday.

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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)

The ruling came aft the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension filed a suit Saturday to forestall the demolition of grounds successful the case.

The lawsuit, filed successful the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, names DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and U.S. Border Control, arsenic good arsenic Attorney General Pam Bondi, arsenic defendants.

In granting the impermanent injunction, Judge Eric Tostrud wrote that national officials and those acting connected their behalf cannot destruct grounds taken from the country of the southbound Minneapolis shooting oregon present successful their exclusive custody, which authorities authorities accidental they were antecedently barred from inspecting.

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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)

A proceeding connected the bid has been scheduled for Monday.

Pretti's parents, Michael and Susan Pretti, said Saturday that they are "heartbroken but besides precise angry," and condemned the mentation of events presented by instrumentality enforcement arsenic "sickening lies."

"Alex was a kindhearted psyche who cared profoundly for his household and friends and besides the American veterans whom helium cared for arsenic an ICU caregiver astatine the Minneapolis VA hospital," the mates wrote.

GUN RIGHTS GROUPS CLASH AFTER MAN DHS SAYS WAS ARMED FATALLY SHOT BY CBP IN MINNEAPOLIS

A screengrab from a video shows a instrumentality enforcement serviceman spraying irritants astatine Alex Pretti earlier helium was fatally changeable by national agents successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Reuters)

"The sickening lies told astir our lad by the medication are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is intelligibly not holding a weapon erstwhile attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his telephone successful his close manus and his bare near manus is raised supra his caput portion trying to support the pistillate ICE conscionable pushed down each portion being capsicum sprayed," they continued.

Meanwhile, Trump highlighted that Pretti was equipped and carrying 2 other magazines astatine the clip of the shooting. White House lawman main of unit Stephen Miller went further than different members of the administration, calling Pretti a "would-be assassin" who "tried to execution national instrumentality enforcement," adding that helium is simply a "domestic terrorist."

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison had demanded a "a full, impartial, and transparent investigation" into the shooting.

A national cause fires a munition toward demonstrators adjacent the tract wherever Alex Pretti was fatally changeable successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

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Ellison said helium shares "intense grief and anger" implicit Pretti's decease and condemned ICE's beingness successful Minnesota arsenic an "illegal and unconstitutional occupation."

Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.