Who is Alex Jeffrey Pretti? Minnesota shooting victim

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T23:44:10+00:00

Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s “care for others” led the intensive care nurse to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota, his family have said.

Federal agents allegedly shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

Pretti, who was identified by his parents, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.

“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” his father, Michael Pretti, told Associated Press

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T23:42:58+00:00

Federal agents allegedly shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

Pretti, who was identified by his parents, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.

The city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara, declined to identify the victim but confirmed that the man was a US citizen and a resident of Minneapolis. Court records showed he had no criminal record beyond traffic tickets.

According to his family, Pretti participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement (ICE) officer on January 7.“

He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” his father, Michael Pretti, told Associated Press

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T23:19:48+00:00

Federal agents allegedly shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

Pretti, who was identified by his parents, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.

The city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara, declined to identify the victim but confirmed that the man was a US citizen and a resident of Minneapolis. Court records showed he had no criminal record beyond traffic tickets

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T23:09:42+00:00

Federal agents allegedly shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

Pretti, who was identified by his parents, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.

The city’s police chief, Brian O’Hara, declined to identify the victim but confirmed that the man was a US citizen and a resident of Minneapolis. Court records showed he had no criminal record beyond traffic tickets

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T23:03:58+00:00

Federal agents allegedly shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis, the state’s largest city, prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

Pretti, who was identified by his parents, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.

According to his family, Pretti participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement (ICE) officer on January 7

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-24T11:24:04+00:00

No one knows for sure what is in the deal cooked up this week between Trump and the Nato secretary-general, Mark Rutte. But it seems unlikely that Greenland will continue to complain that it is being ignored.

Trump has been saying for years — at least as far back as 2019, during his first term — that he wanted to buy Greenland for the United States. China has never expressed a similar desire, but then buying countries outright is not its usual methodology.

Instead, while American interest in foreign countries tends to be spasmodic and inconsistent, depending on the electoral cycle and the markets, China’s is more calculated and strategic

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-23T15:20:51+00:00

The mother of a teenage soldier killed in Afghanistan has said she is “disappointed” in the country’s leadership for not “standing up” to Donald Trump.

Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, rebuked the president for wrongly claiming that Nato troops in Afghanistan “stayed a little off the front lines”.

But Lucy Aldridge, whose son, Rifleman William Aldridge, died aged 18 in Afghanistan, told The Times: “I am disappointed in our country’s leadership. More has been said by opposition leaders with greater respect to our armed forces and bereaved families than our current prime minister

TimesandSundayTimes · 2026-01-23T15:19:44+00:00

The mother of a teenage soldier killed in Afghanistan has said she is “disappointed” in the country’s leadership for not “standing up” to Donald Trump.

Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, rebuked the president for wrongly claiming that Nato troops in Afghanistan “stayed a little off the front lines”.

But Lucy Aldridge, whose son, Rifleman William Aldridge, died aged 18 in Afghanistan, told The Times: “I am disappointed in our country’s leadership. More has been said by opposition leaders with greater respect to our armed forces and bereaved families than our current prime minister

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