Tensions are escalating in Minneapolis after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was killed during an encounter with immigration officials on Saturday morning. Immigration officials said Pretti was shot several times shortly after 9 a.m. local time when federal officers were conducting a targeted operation against a different man who was undocumented and wanted for assault. – The victim was an ICU nurse who loved the outdoors – Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident and an ICU nurse, has been identified by officials as the shooting victim. The victim’s father Michael Pretti told the Associated Press his son had participated in the protests because he “cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset.” – Here is what to know. His mother, Susan Pretti, told the AP her son was passionate about the environment and “took his dog everywhere he went.” Neighbors were also shocked by his death. Jeanne Wiener, who lived next door to Pretti, told MPR News that she would chat with him when he was walking his dog around their Lyndale neighborhood. “He was a calm person; he’s a nurse,” Wiener said Saturday. “I’m mad. I’m angry. This was a good person. This is not a violent person.” Dr. Dimitri Drekonja, who worked at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center with Pretti, remembered him as an “incredibly competent person” who was good at…Read more