What primary documents has the Minneapolis VA released about Alex Pretti’s employment status?

1. What the VA workplace affiliations reported publicly actually show

Multiple reliable outlets identify Pretti as an intensive‑care registered nurse affiliated with the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and note his active nursing license and union membership; those identifications come from family statements, union releases and news reporting rather than a posted personnel file from the VA itself ^{[7] [8] [1]}. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3669 — the union that represents Minneapolis VA staff — publicly described Pretti as a VA ICU nurse and criticized post‑shooting rhetoric from federal officials, signaling an institutional acknowledgment of his VA employment even if the VA has not supplied raw HR documents to the public record in these stories ^{[2] [1]}.

2. No published VA primary documents produced in the reporting collected

Despite repeated references to Pretti’s role at the Minneapolis VA across national and international outlets, the sources assembled here do not identify any primary VA document — such as a redacted personnel file, employment verification letter, pay stubs officially released by the VA, or a VA press release attaching HR records — that the Minneapolis VA has posted or made available to journalists ^{[3] [9] [10]}. Some outlets explicitly note that authorities or the VA had not confirmed employment history at the time of initial reports, underscoring the distinction between corroborating statements and the release of underlying VA documents ^{[9] [10]}.

3. What has circulated as “evidence” — and why it’s unreliable

After the killing, fabricated reports and a fake news story claiming Pretti had been fired from an unrelated “Lakeshore Medical Center” circulated widely; multiple fact‑checks and mainstream outlets flagged these pieces as inventions and found no record that Pretti ever worked at the named private facility or that a Dr. Elena Vasquez — the quoted source in the fake item — was affiliated with it ^{[4] [5] [6]}. Those debunkings are relevant because some social‑media posts presented screenshots and alleged payroll extracts as proof of termination; the reporting collected here treats those artifacts skeptically and traces the origin to a fabricated site rather than to VA HR releases ^{[5] [6]}.

4. What would constitute a primary VA document and whether any reporting shows it exists

Primary documents relevant to employment status would include VA‑issued employment verification letters, redacted personnel rosters, payroll records, official VA press releases citing HR files, or a copy of a licensing‑to‑employer match from VA HR. The assembled sources show none of those primary artifacts publicly attributed to the Minneapolis VA; instead, confirmation of Pretti’s employment comes from union statements, family comments and corroborative reporting by journalists who have contacted VA colleagues — not from VA‑published HR records accessible to the public in these pieces ^{[1] [7] [2]}.

5. Bottom line, caveats and next steps for verification

Based on the sources reviewed, the Minneapolis VA has not released primary employment documents about Alex Pretti to the public record cited here; reporting identifies him as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA via union and colleague statements, while explicitly fabricated claims about firing from another facility have been debunked ^{[1] [2] [4]}. If a reader seeks incontrovertible primary evidence, the next verification steps are to request a VA employment verification from VA Public Affairs or FOIA‑request redacted personnel/payroll documents; the present reporting does not show those documents having been published ^{[9] [10]}. Finally, the prevalence of deliberate fabrications demonstrates an implicit agenda among bad actors to discredit Pretti and muddy public perception of the shooting, a pattern the fact‑checks in these sources highlight ^{[5] [6]}.