Alex Pretti shooting investigation: Minnesota says FBI's 'lack of cooperation is concerning and unprecedented'

The caput of a Minnesota investigative bureau looking into the shooting decease of Alex Pretti called the FBI's "lack of cooperation" successful the probe "concerning and unprecedented." 

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said the FBI formally notified his bureau connected Friday that "it volition not supply the BCA with entree to immoderate accusation oregon grounds that it has collected successful the Jan. 24 shooting decease of Alex Pretti." 

"The BCA reiterated the petition to person information, entree to evidence, and practice successful the Jan. 7 shooting decease of Renee Good and the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis. It remains unclear if determination volition beryllium immoderate practice oregon sharing of accusation related to those 2 shootings," Evans continued. 

"While this deficiency of practice is concerning and unprecedented, the BCA is committed to thorough, independent and transparent investigations of these incidents, adjacent if hampered by a deficiency of entree to cardinal accusation and evidence," helium added.

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A screengrab from a video shows a instrumentality enforcement serviceman spraying irritants astatine Alex Pretti earlier helium was fatally changeable by national agents successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Reuters)

Evans besides said, "Our bureau has committed to the FBI and Department of Justice that should its stance alteration we remain willing to stock accusation that we person obtained with that bureau and would invited a associated investigation," and, "We volition proceed to prosecute each ineligible avenues to summation entree to applicable accusation and evidence." 

When asked Tuesday for comment, the FBI referred Fox News Digital to remarks that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made connected Jan. 30, the time helium announced that the Justice Department opened a civilian rights probe successful the shooting decease of Pretti.

"We’re looking astatine everything that would shed airy connected what happened that time and successful the days and weeks starring up to what happened," Blanche said during a quality conference. "That’s similar immoderate probe that the Department of Justice and the FBI bash each day. It means we’re looking astatine video, talking to witnesses, trying to recognize what happened."

A U.S. Border Patrol cause changeable and killed Pretti, an ICU caregiver astatine a VA hospital, portion helium was signaling national officers connected a thoroughfare successful Minneapolis.

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Images of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are displayed during a forum held by Democratic lawmakers connected usage of unit by Department of Homeland Security agents, connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Federal officials initially said Pretti approached migration agents with a 9 mm handgun and resisted erstwhile they tried to disarm him, but eyewitness accounts and bystander video rise questions astir the government's mentation of events. 

At the time, Border Patrol agents were conducting enforcement operations successful the country erstwhile civilians blew whistles and shouted, forcing authorities to archer the assemblage to enactment connected the sidewalk in bid to steer wide of law enforcement activity. 

Good was changeable and killed by an ICE cause successful Minneapolis successful aboriginal January. Authorities said she utilized her car to effort to tally implicit national officers during an enforcement operation.

People mourn astatine a makeshift memorial successful the country wherever 37-year-old Alex Pretti was changeable dormant by national agents successful Minneapolis connected Jan. 24. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sosa-Celis is simply a Venezuelan nationalist accused of assaulting an ICE serviceman during a chaotic Minneapolis apprehension past month. 

Fox News' Adam Sabes, Michael Dorgan and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.