On Line Zoom Vigil
for Alex Pretti, RN.
Time: Sunday Feb 1, 2026 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti (1988 – January 24, 2026)was a 37-year-old United States citizen who lived in the Lyndale neighborhoodof Minneapolis.Pretti was born in Park Ridge, a northwest suburb city of the Chicago metropolitan area, to a family with northern Italian ancestry.He grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was graduated from the public Preble High School in 2006. He attended the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, where he received a bachelor's degree with a major in biology, society and environment in 2011.
Pretti was hired in 2014 as a research assistant in the clinical research program at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System.He had been a registered nurse in Minnesota since 2021.At the time of his death, Pretti held an active nursing license and was an intensive care nurse at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. He was a member of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Alex Pretti was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agents near the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in the Whittier neighborhood[45] of Minneapolis.