NC Gov. Stein calls agents' killing of ICU nurse in Minneapolis 'a travesty'

Joe Marusak, The Charlotte Observer on Jan 24, 2026

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Saturday decried the killing by federal agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA in Minneapolis. Stein called his death “a travesty.”

“The videos coming out of Minnesota are awful, heartbreaking, and infuriating,” Stein said on social media site X.

Video showed agents “wrestling (Pretti) to the ground and shooting him multiple times” during a confrontation with protesters Saturday morning, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

The fatal shooting was the second by federal agents this month who arrived in large numbers in Minneapolis; Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte in November in addition to large operations in Chicago and other cities as part of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement plans.

Pretti “was exercising his first and second amendment constitutional rights,” Stein said. “ ... He should still be alive right now. There must be a transparent investigation and accountability. This senseless violence must stop.”