Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. This article contains graphic imagery that some readers may find disturbing.
A Border Patrol-involved-shooting occurred in Minneapolis on Saturday morning which killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agent involved in SHOOTING in Minneapolis.
— Jack (@jackunheard) January 24, 2026
It’s getting worse.
pic.twitter.com/vXQ3I4YPX4
🚨 BREAKING: The armed man who fought Border Patrol and was subsequently shot this morning in Minneapolis has died, per the City of Minneapolis
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 24, 2026
They’re going to burn this freaking place to the ground.
Pray hard for our agents today 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/i9zrWGDzw7
🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: The armed man who fought Border Patrol this morning in Minneapolis seen here in a screenshot by @KimKatieUSA
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 24, 2026
He got himself kiIIed because he bought into Tim Walz and Jacob Frey’s propaganda
Don’t be this guy. pic.twitter.com/CqXh5V0KD9
The shooting occurred as numerous agents struggled with an individual identified as Pretti on the ground. Bystander video shows the agents wrestling with Pretti before numerous shots are heard and Pretti collapses.
Law enforcement sources have revealed that Pretti was allegedly armed at the time of the incident.
BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews the suspect was armed with a gun, which has been recovered by federal agents. pic.twitter.com/GLZJMdwIup
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 24, 2026
Pretti received medical treatment at the scene and then was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead.
The Department of Homeland Security quickly released a statement following the incident claiming that Pretti confronted federal agents with a Sig Sauer handgun. Agents attempted to disarm the individual, but Pretti violently resisted. An agent, fearing for his life and the lives of his fellow officers, fire defensive shots into Pretti.
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BREAKING: DHS statement to @FoxNews re: the Border Patrol shooting of an armed subject in Minneapolis today:
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 24, 2026
“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…
BREAKING: Multiple law enforcement sources tell me there has just been a Border Patrol involved shooting in Minneapolis near 26th Street & Nicollet Ave. with Border Patrol shooting a person. I’m told the person is “down” and medics are working on them. No details yet on who it…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 24, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: The armed person shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis has died, police chief says
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 24, 2026
TWO MAGAZINES recovered with the firearm.
Justified, 100%, case CLOSED.
BILL MELUGIN: "Border Patrol shot somebody who DHS tells Fox News was armed with a gun. They have recovered… pic.twitter.com/QPZmofjdvE
Protesters quickly surrounded the scene and began shouting at law enforcement, who had the roped off the area and posted officers to contain the scene. Crowd control measures were employed to keep the protestors at bay.
🚨 BREAKING: MAJOR law enforcement response in Minneapolis after Border Patrol-involved shooting with an armed suspect, leftists have ALREADY stormed the scene
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 24, 2026
Tim Walz is even SIDING with the resister.
STAY SAFE. The left is violent.
KEEP THEM SAFE AT ALL COSTS. pic.twitter.com/joMcWV0m1H
🚨 BREAKING: Utter CHAOS at the scene of the Border Patrol involved shooting in Minneapolis this morning
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 24, 2026
I don’t see how the Insurrection Act doesn’t get invoked at this point.
These people are going to go ballistic (literally) https://t.co/Ux64obCrbG
🚨 JUST IN: Federal agents are UNLEASHING crowd control munitions on leftists in Minneapolis after an armed suspect was shot and killed
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 24, 2026
Mayor Frey and Tim Walz caused this. They called for people to FIGHT BACK against Border agents, and look what happened.
THEY SHOULD RESIGN.… pic.twitter.com/ZTGvWtLjMc
Local police are reportedly absent amid the chaos caused by the leftist agitators, leaving federal agents to fend for themselves.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Someone just got PUMMELED at the riot in Minneapolis and arrested, it is utter CHAOS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 24, 2026
These leftists are siding with with the armed man who tried attacking agents, and was killed in self defense
NO MINNEAPOLIS POLICE ARE HELPING.
Send the troops! pic.twitter.com/Ua8YCsFjVq
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