Armed man approached ICE agents, ends up getting shot
Federal agents were in the process of going after Jose Huerta-Chuma when a man approached them. Alex Pretti, 37, approached them armed with a gun and a couple of magazines. Agents tried to disarm him, but Pretti violently resisted, causing one agent to fear for the lives of his comrades and himself to fire defensive shots. Medics arrived to provide medical aid but pronounced Pretti dead. After the shooting, about 200 agitators closed in and engaged in obstruction and assault.
From Fox News:
During Saturday’s news conference, Frey condemned the shooting and gave an impassioned plea for the federal enforcement operation to end.
“I just saw a video of more than six masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents? How many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and partisan narrative is not as important as American values? How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city,” Frey said.
He called on the administration and those involved in the operation to “reflect” before calling out Trump.
“President Trump, this is a moment to act like a leader. Put Minneapolis put America first in this moment. Let’s achieve peace. Let’s end this operation. And I’m telling you, our city will come back. Safety will be restored. We’re asking for you to take action now to remove these federal agents,” Frey said.
Walz also condemned the shooting, noting he spoke twice with the White House Saturday morning.
“Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” Walz wrote on X. “The president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
He later said that he told the White House that Minnesota must lead the investigation into the shooting and implored them to “let state investigators secure justice. As we process the scene, stay peaceful and give them space.”
“The State has the personnel to keep people safe — federal agents must not obstruct our ability to do so,” Walz wrote on X.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both Democrats representing Minnesota, also spoke out following the shooting. Smith called the incident “catastrophic” and called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “leave now so MPD can secure the scene and do their jobs.”
The Border Patrol Union responded to the incident, saying that agents are “trained extremely well to protect themselves.”
“We have pleaded with and warned the media and the politicians that their irresponsible, hate-filled and false rhetoric is going to get people unnecessarily hurt, or worse, killed when they portray our agents and officers as the aggressors. They have encouraged these reckless confrontations and attacks on our agents and officers who are performing their lawful duties and enforcing the laws that Congress has put on the books,” the union wrote in a statement on X.
Additional Reading:
Wolf, R., Mauro, P., & Melugin, B. (2026, January 24). Alex Pretti identified as Minneapolis man fatally shot by federal immigration agent. Fox News. Link.
Category: Crime, ICE, Illegal Immigrants, Society
The left will spin this so damn hard. My fb page already got slammed last night by dem politicians dancing on that guy’s grave to push their agenda. I’m so sick of their BS. I honestly wish they would leave the country if they can’t stand the laws of the land they helped create. Freaking damn hypocrites.
So is he an illegal or an ICU nurse? It depends who is telling the truth and there isn’t much truth coming out of Minnesota.
Time to pull ICE out and just wall off the city. No one comes in or out without an ID check.
I suggest you research what is being reported a bit more and edit your post. You’re confusing the shooting victim with the target of the ICE investigation.
I’m a little comfused on the shootings. online NewsMax has the VA employee/Nurse with a gun that turns up and then the ilegal turns up with a handgun and 2 mags. va employee had a permit for a hand gun. va employee was holding a cell phone and ice says he had a gun, so now I’m really confused.
That confusion might be deliberately created. For now, I am confident and comfortable with the “suspect’s” deceased status and grateful that no ICE or other law enforcement personnel were injured.
In order to do as you suggest, I have to have the ability to precisely predict the future and know exactly what the source article will look like on the day that the post I generated drops.
Additionally, I suggest that you thoroughly read the post that you’re commenting on. Had you looked at the quoted portion of the article, which quoted the article as it was posted at the time, it had the commander of the Border Patrol identifying him as an illegal alien.
This had absolutely nothing to do with my ability to research, and everything to do with the fact that since I scheduled this yesterday afternoon for posting today, the information changed and the source article was updated.
There was absolutely no confusion on my part as I summarized what the article said as of the time (yesterday afternoon). The context of the above post, and the article that it references as I generated it yesterday, does not tie the guy that got shot with someone they were after. He was described as approaching ICE.
Grow up. All I did was suggest you research the matter more and update your post.
Grow up? Reread your suggestion and do as you preach. Hint: Demonstrate tact next time. Rebuking you for jumping the gun does not constitute being immature.
Thanks for updating your post.
So the “ICU male nurse” is in fact now a deceased and illegal alien?
The dead guy is Alex Pretti. Huerta-Chuma is the suspect that ICE was attempting to take into custody.
I think Jose Huerta-Chuma was the target of the operation that the former ICU nurse interfered with.
After some additional reading, that sounds like the most accurate information, so far.
I need more coffee and a scorecard for this.
“Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” Walz wrote on X. “The president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
Hack Stone keeps seeing those on the left claiming that ICE agents are untrained. Personnel assigned as Immigration Customs Enforcement agents undergo 12 weeks of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Most of them have prior experience in local, state and federal law enforcement, which means that have additional training in law enforcement, in addition to any training as prior military. That does not sound untrained to Hack.
Yeah, but your facts contradict with the propaganda that the left uses to stir their useful idiots up into a frenzy.
Yes, that’s “hurtful and harmful” for ’em:
“During Saturday’s news conference, Frey condemned the shooting and gave an impassioned plea for the federal enforcement operation to end.”
“The president must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”
FUCK the both of them sideways with a hot steam pipe, why not COOPERATE with ICE to remove the illegals UNLESS the both of you butt-pals have something to hide, and apparently both do, I would SO LOVE to see the both of them take the perp walk.