{"id":119393,"date":"2026-02-02T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119393\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:06:08","slug":"propublica-identified-federal-officers-who-killed-alex-pretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119393\/","title":{"rendered":"ProPublica identified federal officers who killed Alex Pretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I5TQEJNP6RBIPGI6KRQCW7TRCA\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The identities of the two federal officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have been revealed in documents obtained by ProPublica. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BZSMFTECHJAOPMA5APNICL3IFE\">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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to ProPublica.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CNE7TYX2HRHDPIAIRNNILGEIOE\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DWWHODVVSFCUHLMCRKVAJY76FU\">He died as a result of his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RLWIA42TMRHSHF3TNHXPBKNTRY\">Ochoa has been a member of the CBP since 2018. Gutierrez became a part of the agency in 2014. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N3ZWLOE4MJH6BAPD4HQQ7HCHQI\">They are both from South Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to ProPublica<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KYFQYPHKRVENTGRXB35W5CXOQQ\">Ochoa\u2019s ex-wife, Angelica, said he \u201chad 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SNWQQ4R4FJFVPA63JH5OKDNGOQ\">Gutierrez \u201cis assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Immigration Enforcement Minnesota\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UH7JVB3UGNGU5JZMQFV5QXDB4I.jpg\"  \/>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 Y\u00fccel\/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KFJHRONBQJGDZJMOXFGYEPYDPA\">Pretti died three and half weeks after ICE agents shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"K3OOCPMTZZH5DPFTX57G4SCZ3Q\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QYPTAO6RUZB2DADRROIIY7WP4E\">Pretti and Good have become beacons of resistance for those witnessing ICE operations across the nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The identities of the two federal officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-119393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}