Were any federal officers identified as present at both the Jan. 13 confrontation and the Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti?
Executive summary
No news reporting reviewed publicly identifies any federal officer as having been present at both the Jan. 13 confrontation and the Jan. 24 shooting that killed Alex Pretti; journalists have published videos of the Jan. 13 scuffle and investigators and reporters have identified two agents who fired on Jan. 24, but none of the sources tie those named officers to the earlier altercation [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. What the Jan. 13 footage shows — and what it does not name
Multiple outlets published bystander videos showing a Jan. 13 confrontation in Minneapolis in which a man later confirmed to be Alex Pretti is wrestled to the ground after kicking at a federal vehicle and clashing with immigration agents, but the published footage and contemporaneous reporting document actions and faces, not the identities of the individual officers involved (The Guardian, PBS, WBAL/NewsMovement coverage) [1] [5] [2] [6].
2. Who reporters say fired on Jan. 24 — identification without a cross‑check
Investigative reporting by ProPublica and follow‑ons in outlets including Newsweek and local stations named two federal officers — Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez — as the agents who fired during the Jan. 24 shooting, based on government records reviewed by reporters [3] [4] [7]. Those identifications relate specifically to the Jan. 24 incident and are presented as the best available reporting on which agents discharged their weapons that day [3].
3. No source connects the named Jan. 24 shooters to the Jan. 13 clash
In the reporting reviewed, the Jan. 13 videos are described, and the Jan. 24 shooters are identified, but none of the stories assert that Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez or any other named federal officer appeared in both episodes; accounts explicitly treat the two sets of footage and the personnel disclosures as separate evidentiary threads [2] [3] [4].
4. Official statements and internal reviews leave gaps about personnel overlap
Department of Homeland Security and CBP statements acknowledged officers fired on Jan. 24 and said agents were placed on administrative leave or relocated, and DHS said it was reviewing the earlier Jan. 13 footage — but public agency statements cited in reporting have not released rosters or affirmed overlap of personnel between the two dates [3] [8]. That means the agencies’ public responses do not supply the linkage that would be required to say any officer was present at both events [3].
5. Competing narratives and why identification matters
Administration officials framed the Jan. 24 shooting as an encounter with an armed aggressor, while bystander videos and the Pretti family’s lawyers dispute that account and emphasize the Jan. 13 incident as distinct background context; independent naming of the Jan. 24 shooters by ProPublica focuses scrutiny on those two agents but stops short of asserting they were part of the Jan. 13 takedown, leaving advocates and critics to argue about patterns of conduct without a documented personnel overlap in the public record [9] [10] [2].
6. Conclusion and the limits of current reporting
Based on the reporting and primary videos reviewed here, no federal officers have been publicly identified as present at both the Jan. 13 confrontation and the Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti; the Jan. 13 videos show agents but do not name them, and investigative reporting identified the two shooters from Jan. 24 without connecting them to Jan. 13 — if such a linkage exists in government records, it has not been disclosed or reported in the sources examined [1] [2] [3] [4].