Minneapolis Shooting: Identities of officers Involved in Alex Pretti‘s Death Revealed
The officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on January 24th have been identified as Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, both hailing from Texas. This disclosure comes after authorities initially withheld the names of the officers and provided limited information regarding the incident, as reported by ProPublica.
Ochoa, a Border Patrol agent, joined Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2018. Gutierrez has been with the agency since 2014 and is assigned to a specialized unit focused on high-risk operations, comparable to SWAT teams.
the shooting occurred on a Minneapolis street, resulting in the death of Pretti, a former University of Minnesota student and registered nurse with no prior criminal record. While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asserted the shooting was an act of self-defense – mirroring the justification used in the case of Renée Good – eyewitness accounts and circulating video footage contradict this claim.Reports from individuals present at the scene suggest Pretti did not pose an immediate physical threat to the officers at the time of the shooting.
The lack of openness surrounding the incident and the DHS’s swift defense of the officers’ actions have fueled public scrutiny and sparked protests within Minneapolis. The circumstances surrounding pretti’s death remain under investigation as calls for a more thorough and self-reliant review of the events continue to grow.