WHERE DID ALEX PRETTI LIVE RESIDENCE?
Executive summary
Public reporting is consistent that Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a resident of Minneapolis — specifically identified in several accounts as living in the Lyndale neighborhood of south Minneapolis — and worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA, but no credible source in the available reporting publishes a precise street address for his home [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Residence identified in multiple outlets as Minneapolis, Lyndale neighborhood
Contemporary coverage repeatedly describes Pretti as a Minneapolis resident and, more specifically, locates his home in the Lyndale neighborhood of south Minneapolis; Wikipedia’s summary and local reporting both name Lyndale as his neighborhood [1], and local outlets and national press uniformly call him a Minneapolis resident [3] [4] [5].
2. Proximity of the shooting to his home reported but not a substitute for an address
Several reports note that Pretti was shot less than two miles (about 3.2 km) from his reported residence in Minneapolis, a detail that underscores the local context of the incident but does not substitute for publication of a specific street address, which the cited reporting does not provide [1].
3. Occupational detail corroborates city residency claims
Journalistic and union statements identify Pretti as a 37‑year‑old intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, an employment detail used by multiple outlets to reinforce the characterization of him as a Minneapolis resident and community member [2] [3] [6].
4. Background notes add context but do not relocate him
Other biographical details — including that he was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, according to Cook County records cited by local Chicago media — appear alongside the Minneapolis residency in reporting but do not contradict the city listed as his residence at the time of his death [7] [4].
5. Political narratives and official reactions have sometimes blurred the basic residency fact
The killing generated intense national political commentary and competing narratives — administration officials and supporters advanced claims about Pretti’s actions at the scene while unions, family and many local officials framed him as a Minneapolis nurse and resident unjustly killed — but those rhetorical battles do not change the consistent reporting that his residence was in Minneapolis’s Lyndale neighborhood [8] [9] [3].
6. Limits of reporting: no precise home address published in available sources
While multiple reputable outlets and local officials identify Pretti as a Minneapolis resident and specify Lyndale as his neighborhood [1] [3] [5], none of the provided sources publishes a street address or other exact location for his private residence; therefore any claim beyond neighborhood or city — such as a house number or exact block — cannot be substantiated from the reporting reviewed [1] [4] [5].
7. Why the distinction matters: privacy, accuracy and competing agendas
The consistent naming of Lyndale and Minneapolis anchors the factual answer to “where did Alex Pretti live” in the city and neighborhood [1] [3], yet the absence of a published address reflects both journalistic restraint around victims’ private addresses and the intense political uses of the case — an important reminder that public narratives (to vilify or to memorialize) can outpace and sometimes obscure the straightforward personal facts that reporting has actually verified [8] [9].