STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The identities of the two federal officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been revealed in documents obtained by ProPublica.
Jesus Ochoa, 43, a Border Patrol agent, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, a Customs and Border Protection officer, fired their weapons at Pretti during an Anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 24, 2026, according to ProPublica.
A total of 10 shots were discharged in the interaction between Pretti, Ochoa, and Gutierrez. Pretti, 37, was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital.
He died as a result of his injuries.
Ochoa has been a member of the CBP since 2018. Gutierrez became a part of the agency in 2014.
They are both from South Texas, according to ProPublica.
Ochoa’s ex-wife, Angelica, said he “had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns.”
Gutierrez “is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units.”
Posters depicting Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are displayed on a wall near the site where Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was fatally shot by federal immigration agents, in Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)AP
Pretti died three and half weeks after ICE agents shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.
The names of the agents involved in both shootings were withheld from public knowledge by the Department of Homeland Security, which runs both the CBP and ICE, igniting a firestorm of condemnation worldwide.
Pretti and Good have become beacons of resistance for those witnessing ICE operations across the nation.