Two officers fired their guns during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend, in accordance with an initial report to Congress from the Department of Homeland Security reviewed by NCS.
The report – from Customs and Border Protection’s initial investigation into the capturing of Pretti – says an officer yelled, “He’s got a gun” a number of occasions earlier than two officers fired as brokers struggled with him on the bottom.
“CBP personnel attempted to take Pretti into custody. Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued,” the report says. “During the struggle, a (Border Patrol agent) yelled, ‘He’s got a gun!’ multiple times.”
The report continues: “Approximately five seconds later, a (Border Patrol agent) discharged his CBP-issued Glock 19 and a (Customs and Border Protection officer) also discharged his CBP-issued Glock 47 at Pretti.”
The report doesn’t particularly say whether or not the bullets fired from each legislation enforcement officers hit Pretti.
The report provides that “after the shooting, a (Border Patrol agent) advised he had possession of Pretti’s firearm. The BPA subsequently cleared and secured Pretti’s firearm in his vehicle.”
CBP personnel “cut Pretti’s clothing and provided medical aid to him by placing chest seals on his wounds,” the report states.
Prior to the capturing, in accordance with the report, a Border Patrol officer “was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles.”
The officer “ordered the female civilians to move out of the roadway, and the female civilians did not move. The (officer) pushed them both away and one of the females ran to a male, later identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a US citizen.”
Officers tried to take Pretti into custody and “Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued,” the report of the initial findings states.
Over 10 minutes after Pretti was shot and killed, Minneapolis Fire Department Emergency Medical Services transported him to the Hennepin County Medical Center the place he was pronounced useless at roughly 9:32 a.m.
CBP investigators have been “advised that an autopsy would be conducted by medical personnel from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office” and can make a request for official findings when the post-mortem is full, the report concludes.
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