The family of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US Department of Veterans Affairs nurse shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis on 24 January, has revealed they learned of his death by recognising his jacket and glasses on live television footage. Speaking publicly for the first time, seven months after the shooting, his parents Michael and Susan and sister Micayla told ABC News they want "accountability" and "justice", saying no official has ever phoned them with information and accusing authorities of spending more effort "vilifying" Alex than investigating his death.

Pretti was killed after he appeared to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground during an immigration enforcement operation; footage shows him being shot ten times in the back while lying on the floor after agents had disarmed him. Micayla said she grew alarmed after a journalist called asking about the shooting, while their mother Susan described being stonewalled by hospital staff even though "it was all over the news". Senior Trump administration figures, including Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and the president himself, have branded Pretti an attacker, "assassin" or "insurrectionist", while the family insists he was trying to help someone. His death came weeks after another Minneapolis resident, Renee Nicole Good, was also shot dead by a federal agent nearby, and the US Attorney's Office has only met with the family's lawyer once, in July.