Pretti family: ‘We have not heard anything from the federal government’

Alex Pretti’s parents, Susan and Michael Pretti, speak during a press conference Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026 in downtown Minneapolis alongside their attorney Steve Schleicher, calling for the federal government to release evidence and cooperate with state officials in the investigation into their son’s death at the hands of federal agents last January. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)Nine months after Customs and Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Pretti’s parents are publicly calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release information and evidence related to Pretti’s killing. “We are here today begging for the Department of Justice to do what is right — to hold the men who killed our son accountable for what they did,” Alex’s mother Susan Pretti said at a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday.  Customs and Border Patrol agents tackled Alex Pretti to the ground, disarmed him, then shot him in the back several times on Jan. 24 during Operation