MN - Alex Pretti dead after Minneapolis shooting involving immigration agents, US media report, January 24, 2026

[no nonsense]

I don’t believe the autopsy has been released. The initial findings of labeling his death a homicide just came out today, a few hours ago. But no autopsy results have been made public.

They said on the news today that it had been released, that it was declared a homicide (no surprise ) and that he was declared dead in the hospital. That seems surprising unless they couldn’t officially pronounce him until he was there?

 

[no nonsense]

Correction – they said that the medical examiner released their report. This is separate from the autopsy, but they said the autopsy didn’t reveal anything additional. Let me double check that.

 

[no nonsense]

Medical examiner rules Alex Pretti’s death a homicide

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office released its findings Monday into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers last month in Minneapolis.

www.kttc.com

It says an autopsy was performed, but no additional findings were disclosed. I misread that and thought that the autopsy had been released. Doesn’t sound like there’s going to be much more to find. Still a bit perplexed as to why they say that he didn’t die until he was at the hospital. If that’s the case, was there not any attempt to render any aid to this poor man? Sure didn’t look like it.

 

[Inthedetails]

Federal order reinstates unannounced congressional visits to ICE detention facilities

https://twitter.com/x/status/2018489653431501152

 

[Charlot123]

This might come out when persons on trial for murder try to get reduced sentences by explaining that their training was a factor in their crimes. Moreso, it will come out in a civil wrongful death case. Lawyers for both the (victim) plaintiff and the defendant who fired a gun will both point their fingers at the training. The plaintiff because the US federal government has bigger pockets than the average federal agent, and the defendant because they would want their trainers to pay as big a fraction of the damages as possible.

MOO

I think that in this case, Alex's parents would expect justice.

And the defendants owe a lot of explanations to the citizens of Minneapolis.

Also, we have the story of Jose Huerta Chuma, the Ecuadorian man the CBP agents were following

Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story.

"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

He had no criminal history, just a misdemeanor that was expunged, was here since 2000, had children born in the US, and was working as a rideshare driver.

So the two agents, Ochoa and Gutierrez, seem to have been simply profiling Huerta Chuma.

Besides, the agent who disarmed Alex one second before the shooting, has a lot of things to explain. The way he walks with the gun, he either has memory issues or he is too aware of what's going to happen.

JMO

 

[SouthAussie]

Medical examiner rules Alex Pretti’s death a homicide

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office released its findings Monday into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers last month in Minneapolis.

www.kttc.com

It says an autopsy was performed, but no additional findings were disclosed. I misread that and thought that the autopsy had been released. Doesn’t sound like there’s going to be much more to find. Still a bit perplexed as to why they say that he didn’t die until he was at the hospital. If that’s the case, was there not any attempt to render any aid to this poor man? Sure didn’t look like it.

I think in Minnesota, as in most places, only certain people can declare a person dead. Maybe they had to wait until Alex was DOA at the hospital for a doctor or someone else with the authority to declare him dead.

imo

 

[zleuther]

Georgetown Law Professor Vladeck senses that Minnesota would prefer to bring charges...

...if DOJ Civil Rights probe drags or looks Blanche-level bogus.

P.S. Am I the only one imagining Angelica Ochoa, after getting off the phone with ProPublica, did something either intentional or not that roundabout led to Blanche's announcement of the DOJ Civil Rights investigation?