Hundreds of people gathered around a growing makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
According to his family, Pretti worked as an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.
Family members told the Associated Press that Pretti had taken part in protests following the killing of Renee Good, who was shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on January 7.
In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said federal officers were carrying out an operation as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown and fired “defensive shots” after a man with a handgun approached them.
US President Donald Trump accused the mayor of Minneapolis and the state’s governor of “inciting insurrection” Saturday over their response to the killing of a civilian in the city by federal officers.