Two vastly different accounts emerged of the man a Border Patrol agent fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Colleagues and family described 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex J. Pretti as a compassionate, skilled nurse who was " troubled " by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown on the Twin Cities.

The parents of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis VA nurse who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis on Saturday, have issued a statement praising their "kindhearted" son and slamming the "sickening lies" they say members of the Trump administration are spreading.

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the 37-year-old fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, was carrying an Sig Sauer 9mm pistol that is widely popular and frequently carried by U.S. military and law enforcement.

People in neighborhoods around the Twin Cities gathered on sidewalks, in parks and on street corners Saturday night to mark the death of another person killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti, the man who was shot and killed by federal agents, was a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who worked at a VA hospital. His father, Alex Pretti, told the Associated Press he "cared about people deeply.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, with federal authorities saying a firearm and two magazines were recovered.

ICU nurse with no criminal record who ‘cared deeply for people’: What we know about Alex Pretti, victim of ICE shooting - Alex Pretti worked as an ICU nurse and had spent time working with the Departm

Democratic officials and protesters on the streets are demanding that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis