A new Border Patrol report says that two agents fired the ten shots at Alex Pretti that killed him and does not mention the gun owner taking out his gun.
Pretti, 37, was shot dead in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday during a targeted immigration enforcement operation.
Following the shooting, DHS and Border Patrol officials portrayed Pretti as an instigator who ‘brandished’ a weapon at officers.
However, a new government report that was sent to Congress on Tuesday claims that while an officer shouted that Pretti had a gun, it does not mention Pretti having taken it out.
The report – which goes off of body camera footage and other CBP documentation – obtained by CBS News states that Pretti was shot by two officers, both using Glocks.
Officials said that at around 9am Saturday, CBP agents were faced with several protesters ‘yelling and blowing whistles’ at the officers, while also blocking the roadway at the intersection of 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
After making ‘several verbal requests’ for the protesters to stop, CBP claims two women confronted the agents while blowing whistles. They were ordered to get out of the roadway but refused.
They said that the women were then ‘pushed away’ and one of the ran to Pretti, with both again refusing to leave the roadways.
A new Border Patrol report says that two agents fired the ten shots at Alex Pretti that killed him and does not mention the gun owner taking out his gun
The officer then deployed pepper spray at both of them, while attempting to arrest Pretti.
Pretti allegedly resisted the efforts to arrest him, leading to a struggle in which one Border Patrol Agent yelled multiple times: ‘He’s got a gun!’
Within five seconds, one agent and one officer discharged the shots, with one using a Glock 19 and the other a Glock 47.
An agent took possession of Pretti’s gun and cleared and secured it shortly after the shooting.
CBP tried to save Pretti’s live by putting chest seals on his wounds at 9:02am, with EMS and EMTs arriving three minutes later.
Pretti was taken in an ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center at 9:14am, where he was pronounced dead at 9:32am.
A DHS investigation is ongoing and The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has been notified.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary, claimed after the shooting that officers ‘clearly feared for their lives.’
She said the agents fired defensive shots at Pretti after he ‘violently’ resisted their instructions.
Noem also claimed Pretti was ‘brandishing’ the firearm and suggested Pretti was a domestic terrorist in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
Gregory Bovino, the US Border Patrol commander-at-large, said Pretti planned to ‘massacre’ federal agents when he was killed.
Minneapolis police said Pretti had no serious criminal history and was a lawful gun owner with a valid permit.
On Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were investigating the shooting.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was also conducting an internal review of the fatal incident.
Leavitt also said she had ‘not heard’ US President Donald Trump ‘characterize’ Pretti as a domestic terrorist.
DHS officials have maintained that Pretti approached the officers with a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun.
However, witness videos from the scene appeared to show Pretti holding his phone up to the agents – not a gun.
He was captured filming agents with his device as they arrested a female protester, before suddenly being tackled to the ground.
Footage suggested that one officer took Pretti’s weapon from his waistband and walked away with it just moments before he was killed.
Pretti was the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis.
He was shot dead just over a mile from where Renee Good, 37, was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on January 7.
This is a developing story.