Key Highlights
- “Please get the truth out about our son.
- He was a good man.”Two witnesses to the killing have said in sworn testimony that the intensive care nurse was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday.
- One witness, who filmed the shooting from right behind Pretti, said federal agents tackled him after he came to help someone whom they had pushed to the ground. People gather during a vigil for Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
- dam Gray/APFootage from the scene supports the assertion that Pretti is holding a phone, not a gun, when he was tackled and shot. In the aftermath of the killing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an image of a handgun, which Donald Trump referred to as “the gunman’s gun” in a social media post.
- Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, said at a briefing that Pretti had “approached US border patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun”.
