How many fatal shootings by federal immigration or border agents occurred in Minneapolis between 2025 and January 2026?
Executive summary
Two fatal shootings by federal immigration or border agents in Minneapolis are documented in the provided reporting during the period that includes 2025 through January 2026: the killing of Renée (Renee) Nicole Good on Jan. 7, 2026, and the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, making two confirmed fatal incidents in that window according to the sources reviewed [1] [2] [3].
1. The simple tally and the specific dates
The reporting consistently identifies two fatal shootings by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January 2026: Renée (Renee) Nicole Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7, 2026, and Alex Pretti was fatally shot on Jan. 24, 2026; multiple outlets describe Pretti’s death as “the second fatal shooting this month” or “the second fatal shooting in just over two weeks,” which aligns with those two dates [1] [3] [4].
2. Where the count comes from and corroboration across outlets
Major national and local outlets—The New York Times, Reuters, PBS, Time, CBS, and local Minnesota outlets—report the two January 2026 fatalities and frame Pretti’s death as following Good’s earlier in the month; Reuters and PBS explicitly call Pretti the second fatal shooting that month involving federal agents, and CBS and local officials repeated the same tally in their briefings [5] [4] [6] [7].
3. Distinguishing fatal from non‑fatal encounters reported at the same time
Reporting also notes other use‑of‑force incidents during the same surge of enforcement, such as a nonfatal wounding where a man — identified in some stories as Julio Cesar Sosa‑Celis — was shot in the leg during an operation, and at least one other reported shooting that did not result in death; these accounts are repeatedly referenced as part of a string of recent incidents but are described as nonfatal, so they do not change the count of fatal shootings in the reviewed sources [8] [9].
4. Investigations, evidence preservation and contested narratives
Sources emphasize that federal and state authorities have provided differing accounts and that video evidence has complicated federal statements; a judge ordered federal authorities not to destroy evidence in the Pretti case, and news organizations reported that videos contradict some administration descriptions of the encounters—facts that the outlets use to corroborate the timing and fatal nature of the two January incidents but also to underline disputes over exactly what happened [5] [6] [10].
5. Limits of the reporting and what can’t be concluded from these sources alone
The sources supplied document and repeatedly characterize two fatal shootings in Minneapolis in January 2026 by federal immigration agents, but they do not present a comprehensive historical database going back through all of 2025; consequently, while the contemporary coverage identifies two confirmed fatalities in the January 2026 surge, these sources do not prove that there were no other fatal shootings by federal immigration or border agents in Minneapolis at any earlier point in 2025 unless additional records or databases are consulted [2] [4].
6. Why the two‑count matters and the political aftermath
Reporting shows the two January deaths set off protests, dueling press conferences between federal and state officials, legal action to preserve evidence, and calls from city and state leaders to remove federal immigration agents from Minnesota—an eruption of civic and political response that reinforces why the count mattered to residents and officials even as details of each encounter remained contested [7] [6] [11].