Has an official autopsy or medical examiner report on Alex Pretti been released, and what does it say?

1. What officials said would happen: an autopsy was performed by Hennepin County — but public findings have not been issued

Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection briefings and a CBP preliminary report to Congress explicitly note that HCMC medical personnel pronounced Pretti dead and that an autopsy would be conducted by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, with CBP saying it would request the official findings once completed — language consistently reported by CBS News and NBC News ^{[1] [2]}. Those reports record the procedural fact of an autopsy being arranged, but the mainstream accounts available in the provided reporting specify that the official autopsy results had not been released to the public at the time of reporting ^{[1] [2]}.

2. What DHS/CBP and other government briefings have publicly claimed so far

DHS and some agency leaders initially characterized the encounter in stark terms — saying Pretti “brandished” a weapon and portraying him as an immediate lethal threat — and the early DHS/CBP summaries provided to Congress and the public emphasized that two federal agents fired during the incident ^{[2] [4]}. CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility sent a preliminary review to Congress describing two agents firing and noting an autopsy would follow; those internal documents are factual briefings rather than a medical examiner’s independent autopsy report ^{[1] [4]}.

3. What independent videos and news investigations have added — and how that differs from an autopsy

Multiple outlets, including The New York Times, People and an interactive visual timeline, report bystander and verified video footage that appears to contradict early agency narratives about Pretti’s actions and whether he was armed when shot — for example, footage showing Pretti holding a phone and accounts suggesting he was already restrained when shots were fired ^{[5] [3]}. Those visual and investigative narratives inform the public debate about the sequence of events and intent but do not replace forensic determinations an official autopsy would make about bullet paths, wound characteristics, toxicology, and cause/manner findings ^{[5] [3]}.

4. Investigations in motion: civil‑rights probe and internal watchdog reviews complicate timelines

The Department of Justice announced a federal civil‑rights investigation into Pretti’s death, and CBP’s internal watchdog and Office of Professional Responsibility circulated preliminary reports that, in some instances, contradicted DHS public statements — all of which means multiple investigative tracks are active while forensic results awaited from the medical examiner ^{[6] [7]}. News reporting likewise notes that agency briefings to Congress and public statements sometimes differed, underscoring why a standalone Hennepin County autopsy report would be a key public record once released ^{[7] [1]}.

5. Bottom line, and limits of available reporting

Based on the sources assembled, no official Hennepin County Medical Examiner autopsy report detailing cause, manner, or forensic findings for Alex Pretti had been publicly released as of the cited reporting; outlets repeatedly state the autopsy was to be performed and that results were pending or still to be released ^{[1] [2]}. This answer does not claim whether the medical examiner has completed a report behind closed doors or to investigators — the reporting available documents only that the autopsy was performed or arranged and that public release of those findings had not occurred at the time those stories were published ^{[1] [2]}.