Alex Pretti's Family Gives First TV Interview Seven Months After He Was Killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis
Relatives of the ICU nurse and U.S. citizen shot on Jan. 24 said they want accountability; no criminal charges have been publicly announced against the two agents who fired, and state and federal investigations remain open.
A Nurse, a Gun, and Ten Shots: Seven Months Later, No One Has Been Charged
Susan and Michael Pretti learned their son had been shot by watching the news. Susan recognized his jacket and his sunglasses on the screen before anyone told her his name[1]. That was Jan. 24, 2026. On Aug. 25, the Prettis sat down with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America" for their first television interview since Alex Pretti died[1][3]. "They murdered our child," they said. Seven months on, no one has been charged.
Pretti was 37, a U.S. citizen, and an intensive care nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs[1][2]. He was shot by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, the enforcement push the Trump administration launched in December 2025[1][2]. The basic sequence is not in dispute. What it means legally still is, and that gap is the story.
What the Video Shows, Second by Second
Bystanders filmed the encounter from several angles, so this isn't a case built on memory or a single account[4][7]. Pretti was recording agents on his phone. An agent pushed a woman to the ground. Pretti appeared to move toward her.
Agents then pepper-sprayed Pretti and took him down, where several of them held him on the ground. One agent pulled away the handgun Pretti was carrying under a valid permit while he was still pinned. Then another agent fired roughly ten shots into his back[1][4][11].
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide on Feb. 2, with the cause listed as multiple gunshot wounds[5][6]. That word matters, but not in the way it's often used. A homicide ruling means one person's actions caused another person's death. It is not a verdict that a crime happened — that question is still entirely open.
A Story That Collapsed, Then Softened
Within hours of the shooting, before any investigation had started, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti "attacked those officers, had a weapon on him," and described someone who came "to inflict maximum damage"[7][8]. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino used the word "massacre"[7].
Then the video caught up with the statements. CNN's frame-by-frame review and FactCheck.org both found the footage appears to show officers moving toward Pretti, not the other way around[4][7]. Noem later softened her language, saying officials had spoken from "the best information" available at the time[7]. Bovino was moved out of Minnesota, and Tom Homan took over the operation[7][18]. White House aide Stephen Miller went further, conceding the agents "may not have been following" protocol[9].
None of that walked back is the same as a correction. The administration has revised its tone without ever publicly retracting the initial account, which is part of why the family says they still don't have "the complete truth"[1].
The Video the Other Side Points To
Conservative outlets keep returning to a different piece of footage: a video from Jan. 13, eleven days before the shooting, that appears to show Pretti spitting at federal agents and kicking a taillight off a federal SUV at an earlier protest. His family confirmed to the Star Tribune that it was him[10].
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called it evidence of Pretti's "state of mind," and a former prosecutor argued he should have faced charges for the spitting at the time[10][20]. President Trump called Pretti an "agitator" and said he was "perhaps" an "insurrectionist."
There's a real hole in that argument, though, and it's worth naming plainly: the two agents who fired on Jan. 24 had no way of knowing about the Jan. 13 video. Whatever it shows about Pretti's conduct toward agents in general, it can't have shaped what those two men perceived in the moment they decided to shoot. It may explain why the administration sees him differently than his family does. It doesn't reach the legal question of whether the shooting itself was justified.
The Legal Wall Standing Between This Case and a Courtroom
Here is the term this entire fight turns on: Supremacy Clause immunity. It is not a loophole someone invented for this case — it's a long-standing doctrine, and understanding it is the only way to judge either side fairly.
A federal agent charged with a state crime can move the case out of state court and into federal court. There, the agent argues that what he did was necessary to carry out a federal duty. If a federal judge agrees, the state prosecution ends, with no trial and no jury[21][22]. The doctrine exists because a state opposed to a federal law could otherwise cripple it by prosecuting every officer who enforces it.
But the shield isn't unlimited. The word that matters is "necessary." An agent who used force well beyond what the job actually required isn't protected. That means Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and the two agents need the exact same piece of evidence to make opposite arguments: she has to show the shooting went beyond what the situation required, and they have to show it didn't[21][22]. That's why the moment agents pulled Pretti's gun away while he was pinned down carries so much weight for both sides.
Moriarty has already shown she's willing to charge federal agents from this operation. She's charged Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and falsely reporting a crime, and Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with two counts of second-degree assault, for pointing a gun at motorists[12][13]. Those charges involve separate incidents, not Pretti's death. On his case specifically, her office says it couldn't evaluate charges until the federal government handed over its evidence, which didn't happen until July, including body camera footage and officer statements withheld for months[14].
The two agents who fired, Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez, were identified through government records by ProPublica and placed on leave[11][16]. As of Aug. 28, 2026, neither has been publicly charged with anything.
A Prosecutor Working Both Sides of the Same Case
The Justice Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting[15][17]. But DOJ sits in an awkward spot: it's the same department that would prosecute Ochoa and Gutierrez federally and the one that would defend them against Moriarty's state case. That conflict exists no matter who's in charge of the department.
It may explain a staffing choice CBS News reported: the Civil Rights Division's career prosecutors, the ones who specialize in excessive-force cases, were left off the Pretti investigation. In their place, the division assigned Brandon Wrobleski, a lawyer from the employment litigation section with no prior federal criminal experience, working alongside two prosecutors from the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney's office[24]. DOJ hasn't publicly explained the choice.
Even a criminal charge wouldn't fully resolve things for the Pretti family. Their ability to sue the agents directly is narrowed by Supreme Court rulings that have sharply limited damages claims against federal officers — a point raised even by Reason, a libertarian magazine that has been critical of the administration's handling of this case[19]. For the family, a criminal prosecution isn't one option among several. It's close to the only one left.
What Would Actually Change the Picture
Coverage of the Aug. 25 interview split along familiar lines. ABC led with the family's word "murdered" as the headline[1]. Fox News kept steering back to the Jan. 13 video, using language like "state of mind" that shifts the frame from what officers reasonably perceived toward what the family's son may have deserved[10]. Democracy Now! ran the family's demand for accountability with no mention of the administration's side at all[6]. Twitchy covered the interview as a story about ABC's booking decision rather than about the shooting itself[6]. The Star Tribune's coverage stood out as the least editorialized, centering the legal mechanics over either side's moral argument, and it was also the outlet that confirmed the Jan. 13 video with the family[6].
One correction worth noting: some summaries circulating online have said the two agents who fired "were charged for use of force." That isn't accurate. The two Operation Metro Surge agents Hennepin County has charged, Castro and Morgan, are different people, and their charges stem from separate incidents[12][13].
What would actually move this story forward isn't another statement from either side. It's a charging document with Ochoa's or Gutierrez's name on it — or a public decision not to file one. Seven months in, that document doesn't exist yet, and Moriarty's office says its review is still ongoing[14].
Summary
Alex Pretti was a 37-year-old intensive care nurse who worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was a U.S. citizen. On Jan. 24, 2026, federal immigration agents shot and killed him in south Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push that began in December 2025[1][2]. On Aug. 25, 2026, his parents and sister gave their first television interview, to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America." "They murdered our child," the family said. His father, Michael Pretti, said: "We want justice. We want accountability for the people that did this to Alex"[1][3].
The basic sequence is on video, shot by bystanders. Pretti was recording agents with his phone. An agent pushed a woman down. Pretti appeared to move toward her. Agents pepper-sprayed him and took him to the ground, where he was held down by multiple agents. One agent pulled away the handgun Pretti carried under a valid permit while he was pinned. Then roughly ten shots were fired into his back[1][4][11]. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide on Feb. 2 and listed the cause as multiple gunshot wounds[5][6]. A homicide ruling means another person caused the death. It is not a finding that a crime was committed.
The main dispute is about what the video proves. Within hours of the shooting, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti "attacked those officers, had a weapon on him," and described someone who came "to inflict maximum damage"[7][8]. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino used the word "massacre"[7]. CNN's frame-by-frame review and FactCheck.org both found the footage appears to show officers moving toward Pretti, not the reverse[4][7]. Noem later softened her language and said officials had spoken from "the best information" available at the time[7]. Bovino was moved out of Minnesota[7]. White House aide Stephen Miller conceded the agents "may not have been following" protocol[9]. Conservative outlets, meanwhile, point to a separate video from Jan. 13 — eleven days earlier — that appears to show Pretti spitting at agents and kicking a taillight out of a federal SUV at a different protest. His family confirmed to the Star Tribune that the man in that video was him[10].
One correction to how this story has circulated: as of Aug. 28, 2026, no criminal charges have been publicly announced against the two agents who fired. They were identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez[11]. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged two other federal agents from Operation Metro Surge — Christian Castro and Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. — but those charges stem from different incidents[12][13]. Her office received federal evidence in the Pretti case in July and says the review continues[14]. A separate DOJ civil rights investigation is open[15].
The Event
On Jan. 24, 2026, federal immigration agents shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse and U.S. citizen, in south Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge[1][2]. Bystander video shows Pretti recording agents with a phone, then being pepper-sprayed and taken to the ground and held down by multiple agents; an agent removed the handgun he carried under a valid permit while he was pinned, and another agent then fired roughly ten shots into his back[1][4][11]. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide on Feb. 2, with the cause listed as multiple gunshot wounds[5][6]. On Aug. 25, 2026, Pretti's parents and sister gave their first television interview, to ABC's "Good Morning America"[1][3].
Undisputed Facts
- Alex Pretti was a U.S. citizen, age 37, and worked as an intensive care nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs[1][2].
- He was shot by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis on Jan. 24, 2026, during Operation Metro Surge[1][2].
- He was carrying a handgun for which he held a valid permit; an agent removed it from its holster while Pretti was held down by multiple agents, and another agent then fired approximately ten shots, striking him in the back[1][4][11].
- The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide on Feb. 2, 2026, and listed multiple gunshot wounds as the cause[5][6].
- The two agents who fired were identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez; both were placed on leave[11][16].
- The Justice Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting[15][17].
- A video from Jan. 13, 2026 — a separate protest eleven days before the shooting — appears to show Pretti spitting at federal agents and kicking a taillight out of a federal SUV; his family confirmed to the Star Tribune that it was him[10].
- Gregory Bovino was removed from his Minnesota command after the shooting, and Tom Homan took over the operation[7][18].
- Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty's office received federal evidence in the Good and Pretti killings in July 2026, including body camera footage and officer statements the federal government had previously withheld[14].
- The Pretti family gave their first television interview on Aug. 25, 2026, on ABC's "Good Morning America"[1][3].
The Pressure
Strip away the moralizing and blame. What structural realities persist regardless of which narrative wins?
- Supremacy Clause immunity
- This is the term the whole legal fight turns on, and it is not a loophole invented for this case. Here is how it works. A federal agent charged with a state crime can move the case out of state court into federal court. There, the agent argues that what he did was necessary and proper to carry out a federal duty. If the federal judge agrees, the state prosecution ends — no trial, no jury. The reason the doctrine exists is real: without it, a state hostile to a federal law could paralyze it by prosecuting the officers who enforce it. But the shield has a limit, and the limit is the word "necessary." An agent who used force well beyond what the job required is not protected. So both sides need the same fact. Prosecutors need to show the shooting exceeded what the duty required; agents need to show it did not[21][22]. That is why the video, and the moment Pretti's gun was taken from him, matters so much to both camps.
- DOJ's built-in conflict
- The Justice Department would be the prosecutor in any federal civil rights case against Ochoa and Gutierrez. The same department would also defend them against Minnesota's prosecution. That conflict exists no matter who runs DOJ. It is why the staffing of the probe — career excessive-force prosecutors excluded, an employment-litigation lawyer assigned instead — became a story in its own right[24].
- First-hour statements outrun the evidence
- Senior officials described the shooting within hours, before any investigation, in terms the video did not support[4][7][8]. That is a structural feature of contested enforcement operations, not a one-off. Once a senior official has publicly characterized a dead person, walking it back costs more politically than leaving it standing — so it usually gets softened rather than corrected.
- Suing is nearly closed off
- Even setting criminal charges aside, the family's ability to sue the agents personally is heavily limited by Supreme Court decisions narrowing damages claims against federal officers — a point argued by Reason, a libertarian magazine that opposes the administration on this specifically[19]. So criminal prosecution is not one option among several. It is close to the only one.
Material realityThe physical record is not really in dispute, and it is unusually well documented for a use-of-force case. Multiple bystander phones captured the encounter from different angles[4][7]. Pretti was on the ground and an agent had taken his holstered, permitted handgun before roughly ten shots were fired[1][4]. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide, meaning caused by another person — which is a classification, not a criminal finding[5][6]. Seven months on, the two agents who fired have been named but not charged[11][16]. Two other Operation Metro Surge agents have been charged by Hennepin County, but for separate incidents[12][13]. Federal evidence reached state prosecutors only in July, after months of refusal[14]. The operation's commander was replaced and the two shooters were placed on leave — real consequences, but administrative ones[7][16][18]. Whatever any side says, the question of whether anyone is tried turns on a legal doctrine most readers have never heard of and no jury will ever vote on.
Narrative as a weaponThree groups are actively shaping how this reads. The administration wants you to see Alex Pretti as a repeat aggressor — the Jan. 13 spitting video is the whole argument, because if he is a person who escalates at federal agents, the shooting becomes tragic rather than criminal. Note that the agents who fired did not know about that video, so it can explain sympathy but not legal justification. The family and left-leaning outlets want you to see the last fifteen seconds: a nurse, filming, on the ground, already disarmed — a frame in which nothing before that moment matters. Both framings are selections from a real record, and each is strongest exactly where the other looks away. The third group is quieter and worth watching: prosecutors on both sides who have reason to move slowly. Moriarty risks setting a national precedent protecting agents if she charges and loses on immunity. DOJ would have to prosecute the officers it also defends. A reader tracking this story should watch for one specific thing — not more statements, but a filed charging document naming Ochoa or Gutierrez. Nothing else changes the legal picture. Finally, a caution about how this story has traveled: several summaries and aggregators state that the two agents "were charged for use of force." We found no public record of criminal charges against either man as of Aug. 28, 2026; the two Operation Metro Surge agents who have been charged are different people, charged over different incidents[12][13].
How Each Side Sees It
Each major actor’s view — how it frames things, its underlying incentive, and how it’s materially affected. Tap a side to read it.
Frames it asTheir case is simple and it is about sequence. Alex was a nurse. He was a citizen. He was filming, which is legal. He was already on the ground and already disarmed by an agent's own hand when the shooting started[1][4]. Whatever he did eleven days earlier at a different protest, the men who pulled the triggers did not know about it, so it cannot be what justified the shots. Their second argument is about who spoke first: senior officials described their son as someone who came to kill, within hours, before any investigation, and then quietly walked it back without ever correcting the record to the public[7][8]. Susan Pretti's line is the whole claim in one sentence: "he was murdered and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable"[1].
WhyThey want a criminal charge against the two agents, a public correction of the government's initial account, and a factual record that outlives the news cycle. They found out their son had been shot by watching TV coverage; his mother recognized his jacket and sunglasses[1]. Going on national television is leverage — it puts pressure on prosecutors who have not charged anyone in seven months.
Impact on themThey have lost a son and brother. They face the standard obstacle for anyone suing federal officers: Supreme Court doctrine has sharply narrowed the ability to sue federal agents for constitutional violations, a point made even by the libertarian magazine Reason[19]. Their practical path runs through prosecutors, not their own lawsuit.
Frames it asTheir strongest honest case has three parts. First, agents were operating in a hostile crowd environment and a man with a firearm on his belt closed distance on them; officers do not get to rewind the tape in the moment, and the legal standard for deadly force asks what a reasonable officer perceived at the time, not what a frame-by-frame review later shows. Second, Pretti was not a random bystander: video from Jan. 13 shows him spitting at agents and damaging a federal vehicle, which the administration argues establishes a pattern of escalation toward federal officers[10]. Fox legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called it evidence of "state of mind," and a former prosecutor said the spitting itself was a chargeable assault that went unprosecuted[10][20]. Third, they argue federal agents enforcing federal law cannot be second-guessed by a hostile local prosecutor — that is the point of the Supremacy Clause. Stephen Miller has conceded the agents "may not have been following" protocol, which the administration frames as a policy question for internal review, not a murder case[9].
WhyProtecting the viability of large urban immigration operations. If agents can be criminally charged by county prosecutors in cities that oppose the policy, recruitment and aggressive enforcement both get harder. There is also straightforward political damage control: the initial official statements did not survive contact with the video, and every day the story runs is a day the operation's conduct is the subject.
Impact on themThe commander of the Minneapolis operation was replaced[7][18]. Noem faced public calls for her firing[8]. The two agents were placed on leave[16]. Homan publicly signaled an ICE drawdown in the Twin Cities, which the Minneapolis mayor said he would believe when he saw it[18].
Frames it asTheir argument is that a killing in Minneapolis is a Minnesota crime, and no federal badge converts it into a jurisdiction-free zone. Moriarty has already charged two other Operation Metro Surge agents — Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon plus falsely reporting a crime, and Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with two counts of second-degree assault for pointing a gun at motorists[12][13]. That demonstrates she is willing to act on evidence rather than on politics. On Pretti, her position is that she could not evaluate charges until the federal government turned over what it had, which it refused to do for months and finally did in July[14].
WhyEstablishing that state criminal law reaches federal agents. She is also facing an obvious trap: charge too early and lose on immunity, and she sets a precedent that protects agents nationwide. Her office's caution is a legal calculation as much as a political one.
Impact on themAny charge she files can be removed to federal court by the defendant, where the agents would claim Supremacy Clause immunity — a doctrine that shields federal officers from state prosecution when they did no more than what was necessary and proper in performing federal duties[21][22]. Whether that shield covers this shooting is the central untested legal question. One ICE agent she charged was arrested in Texas rather than surrendering in Minnesota[23].
Frames it asDOJ's public position is that it opened a federal civil rights investigation into Pretti's death, led by the FBI with Civil Rights Division lawyers, which is the standard federal route for examining a fatal use of force by a federal officer[15][17]. It has not closed the case or cleared the agents.
WhyIt sits on both sides of the table — the same department defends federal agents against state prosecution and would have to prosecute them federally. That conflict is structural, not a matter of anyone's good faith.
Impact on themCBS News reported that the career prosecutors in the Civil Rights Division who specialize in excessive-force cases were left out of the probe. The division's leadership instead assigned Brandon Wrobleski, a lawyer from the employment litigation section with no prior federal criminal experience, to work with two prosecutors from the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney's office[24]. Critics say that staffing choice is a departure from historical practice; DOJ has not publicly explained it. It also declined to open a parallel probe into the earlier killing of Renee Good[17].
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The same story, as framed by outlets across the spectrum, ordered least to most biased. The bias score (1 = straight, 10 = heavily spun) is an AI assessment of that framing — click an outlet to see its track record. The tell is the word choice or omission that reveals the angle.
| Outlet | Vantage | Bias | How they frame it | The tell |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Tribune | U.S. center, Minnesota metro daily | 2 | "The unprecedented challenge of prosecuting federal agents for killing Renee Good, Alex Pretti" and "Moriarty: State 'in good shape' to consider charging federal agents" | The least editorialized coverage in this set — it centers the legal obstacle (Supremacy Clause immunity, removal to federal court) rather than either side's moral claim. It also confirmed the Jan. 13 video with the family, a detail most left-leaning outlets skipped. |
| ProPublica | U.S. left-leaning nonprofit investigative newsroom, foundation-funded | 3 | "CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez ID'd in Alex Pretti Shooting" | Naming the two agents from government records is real accountability reporting the government had withheld. The tell is selection: identifying individual officers is a choice that a newsroom makes about which institution deserves scrutiny, and here the headline is the names. |
| ABC News | U.S. center-left | 4 | "Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'" | The family's word "murdered" is elevated into the headline as the hook. It is accurately quoted, but no legal body has made that finding, and the piece is ABC's own booking — the exclusive is the product being sold. |
| CNN | U.S. center-left | 6 | "The Trump administration's rushed narrative about the killing of Alex Pretti has collapsed" and "What Trump officials claimed about Alex Pretti — and what the evidence actually shows" | CNN's own frame-by-frame video work is the most concrete original reporting in this story. But "collapsed" is a verdict word in a news headline, and the analysis pieces are labeled analysis while carrying the news load. |
| Democracy Now! | U.S. left, viewer/foundation-funded | 6 | "Alex Pretti's Family Calls for Accountability Seven Months After His Killing by Federal Agents" | Runs the family's demand as the news event, with no reference to the administration's defense or to the Jan. 13 video. Nothing stated is false; the omission is the angle. |
| Fox News | U.S. right | 7 | "Video appears to show Alex Pretti spit at agents, damage SUV days before fatal shooting" and "Alex Pretti should have faced charges for spitting on agent before fatal shooting: former prosecutor" | Coverage repeatedly returns to a Jan. 13 incident that the agents who fired on Jan. 24 had no knowledge of. Framing his prior conduct as "state of mind" quietly moves the legal question from what officers reasonably perceived to what the victim deserved. Fox has also covered the DOJ probe straightforwardly. |
| Twitchy | U.S. right, aggregation/commentary | 8 | "ABC News Interviews Alex Pretti's Grieving Family, Who Want Accountability" | Covers the interview as a media story rather than a news story — the subject becomes ABC's booking decision, not the shooting. This is the clearest example of a whole camp routing around the underlying facts. |
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