Key Highlights
- According to DHS details, at around 9:05 a. m., Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, approached Border Patrol officers holding a 9 mm handgun and extra magazines. Officers tried to take the weapon away, but things turned physical fast.
- DHS described it as violent resistance from Pretti.
- One agent then fired shots in "self-defense" and to protect others nearby.
- Medics rushed to help right there, though Pretti didn't survive."At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here.
- The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted.
