Two vastly different accounts emerged of the man a Border Patrol agent fatally shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 24. Colleagues and family described 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex J. Pretti as a compassionate, skilled nurse who was " troubled " by the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown on the Twin Cities.

Pretti's death comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot dead by an immigration agent in the city.

The man killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis legally owned a gun and had no criminal record.

The parents of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis VA nurse who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis on Saturday, have issued a statement praising their "kindhearted" son and slamming the "sickening lies" they say members of the Trump administration are spreading.

Protesters chanted Alex Pretti's name after he became the second person this month to be shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the 37-year-old fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, was carrying an Sig Sauer 9mm pistol that is widely popular and frequently carried by U.S. military and law enforcement.

People in neighborhoods around the Twin Cities gathered on sidewalks, in parks and on street corners Saturday night to mark the death of another person killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday, grew up in Wisconsin before moving to Minnesota.