Behind an emerging memorial for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old VA ICU nurse who was fatally shot by U.S. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an operation in Minneapolis, stands a building that serves elderly and disabled adults. According to the owner of the Nicollet Adult Day Care Center located at 2614 Nicollet Ave S., Mohamud Isse, the store-front glass was struck by at least two bullets and investigators later recovered a projectile believed to have come from the weapons of the ICE agents involved in the January 24, 2026 shooting of Mr. Pretti.
On January 25, approximately 24 hours after the fatal shooting, investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension arrived to begin a state-level inquiry into the incident. Until this point, no local, state or federal investigators had entered the building or secured the interior crime scene. Only the family of Mr. Isse and ZUMA Press photojournalist Amy Katz, had been inside the building since the shooting. Even more than 30 hours after the incident, federal law enforcement agencies had not taken visible action to secure the scene or conduct their own publicly acknowledged investigation inside the building.
Four days before he was killed, Mr. Pretti had coffee with Mr. Isse at the same Nicollet Avenue location where ICE agents later shot him dead. Mr. Pretti was a familiar face in the community and often walked past the adult day care center, a neighborhood hub which offered a place for people to get warm and have conversations with other community members. Mr. Isse is mourning the loss of his friend amid the growing grief in the neighborhood and throughout the city.
Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #968 Story of the Week: Published: TUESDAY December 17, 2024: ‘INTERVENTION: Haiti’s Growing Chaos’ by ZUMA Press photographer in Haiti Patrice Noel: Last week 184 people were killed in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti’s spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000. Attempts by the Kenya led Multinational Security Mission to quell the violence have so far failed. The international force arrived in Haiti in June to bolster the Haitian National Police but is underfunded and lacks the necessary equipment to take on the heavily armed gangs. Meanwhile, the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) the body created to organize elections and re-establish order, appears to be in turmoil. The TPC replaced the interim prime minister last month and has made little progress. It remains to be seen if Caribbean leaders can salvage Haiti’s transition and help get the country back on the road to organizing free and fair elections. Welcome to ‘INTERVENTION: Haiti’s Growing Chaos’ . http://www.zreportage.com/zReportage.html?num=zrep968 .
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