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Gone quiet · last update Oct 22, 2026 / Minneapolis

The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents in Minneapolis

Overview · reviewed October 23, 2026

Federal immigration officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate Minneapolis shootings during a January 2026 enforcement operation.[1][2] Federal officials defended the shootings, while local officials and video reporting challenged their accounts. The county medical examiner classified the manner of both deaths as homicide.[3][4][5] Disputes over access to evidence followed. Minnesota also charged an ICE officer over a separate nonfatal shooting during the operation, and Good's family brought civil lawsuits.[6][7][8]

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Federal officials defended the shootings, while local officials and video reporting challenged their accounts. The county medical examiner classified the manner of both deaths as homicide.[3][4][5] Disputes over access to evidence followed. Minnesota also charged an ICE officer over a separate nonfatal shooting during the operation, and Good's family brought civil lawsuits.[6][7][8]

Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)

Week of 2025-12-01 (UTC): 16%, 29 of 177 tracked outlets (8 left, 18 center, 3 right)Week of 2025-12-08 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2025-12-15 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2025-12-22 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2025-12-29 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-01-05 (UTC): 53%, 104 of 198 tracked outlets (32 left, 39 center, 33 right)Week of 2026-01-12 (UTC): 45%, 86 of 191 tracked outlets (22 left, 38 center, 26 right)Week of 2026-01-19 (UTC): 50%, 85 of 170 tracked outlets (26 left, 36 center, 23 right)Week of 2026-01-26 (UTC): 43%, 82 of 189 tracked outlets (20 left, 34 center, 28 right)Week of 2026-02-02 (UTC): 29%, 52 of 177 tracked outlets (14 left, 22 center, 16 right)Week of 2026-02-09 (UTC): 27%, 48 of 180 tracked outlets (16 left, 22 center, 10 right)Week of 2026-02-16 (UTC): 9%, 16 of 178 tracked outlets (6 left, 8 center, 2 right)Week of 2026-02-23 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-03-02 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-03-09 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-03-16 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-03-23 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-03-30 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-04-06 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-04-13 (UTC): 8%, 13 of 156 tracked outlets (7 left, 4 center, 2 right)Week of 2026-04-20 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-04-27 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-05-04 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-05-11 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-05-18 (UTC): 8%, 15 of 197 tracked outlets (5 left, 7 center, 3 right)Week of 2026-05-25 (UTC): 16%, 30 of 185 tracked outlets (7 left, 11 center, 12 right)Week of 2026-06-01 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-06-08 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-06-15 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-06-22 (UTC): 5%, 19 of 415 tracked outlets (3 left, 4 center, 12 right)Week of 2026-06-29 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-07-06 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-07-13 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-07-20 (UTC): 1%, 4 of 562 tracked outlets (1 left, 1 center, 2 right)Week of 2026-07-27 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-08-03 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-08-10 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-08-17 (UTC): 9%, 44 of 464 tracked outlets (12 left, 18 center, 14 right)Week of 2026-08-24 (UTC): 14%, 65 of 466 tracked outlets (12 left, 33 center, 20 right)Week of 2026-08-31 (UTC): 13%, 64 of 475 tracked outlets (15 left, 33 center, 16 right)Week of 2026-09-07 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-09-14 (UTC): 9%, 44 of 480 tracked outlets (13 left, 18 center, 13 right)Week of 2026-09-21 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-09-28 (UTC): 17%, 79 of 476 tracked outlets (25 left, 35 center, 19 right)Week of 2026-10-05 (UTC): under 1%, 1 of 479 tracked outlets (0 left, 0 center, 1 right)Week of 2026-10-12 (UTC): 2%, 8 of 476 tracked outlets (0 left, 8 center, 0 right)Week of 2026-10-19 (UTC): 4%, 20 of 479 tracked outlets (5 left, 5 center, 10 right)Week of 2026-10-26 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-02 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-09 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outlets, so far

LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far

Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 7 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (21 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Oct 19, 2026551020 of 4794%
Oct 12, 20260808 of 4762%
Oct 5, 20260011 of 479under 1%
Sep 28, 202625351979 of 47617%
Sep 14, 202613181344 of 4809%
Aug 31, 202615331664 of 47513%
Aug 24, 202612332065 of 46614%
Aug 17, 202612181444 of 4649%
Jul 20, 20261124 of 5621%
Jun 22, 2026341219 of 4155%
May 25, 20267111230 of 18516%
May 18, 202657315 of 1978%
Apr 13, 202674213 of 1568%
Feb 16, 202668216 of 1789%
Feb 9, 202616221048 of 18027%
Feb 2, 202614221652 of 17729%
Jan 26, 202620342882 of 18943%
Jan 19, 202626362385 of 17050%
Jan 12, 202622382686 of 19145%
Jan 5, 2026323933104 of 19853%
Dec 1, 2025818329 of 17716%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Oct 22, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Anchorage Daily News

    Trump administration has stopped sharing evidence in Good and Pretti killings, Minnesota officials say

Background

In early January 2026, the Trump administration deployed about 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis area for an immigration crackdown.[9] On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, as she drove.[1] Federal officials said the officer acted in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected that account and called the shooting reckless.[3]

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The FBI took control of the investigation into Good's killing. Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension withdrew after saying federal authorities had restricted its access to evidence.[10] The Justice Department said at that stage that it saw no basis for a criminal civil-rights investigation.[11] Good's family commissioned a separate inquiry and an autopsy; its lawyers said she had been shot at least three times.[12]

On January 24, federal immigration officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse.[2] Officials defended the shooting, but reporting described bystander video of agents restraining him before the shots and said it contradicted their account.[4] The Justice Department subsequently opened a civil-rights investigation into his death.[13] The medical examiner classified Pretti's death as a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds, as it had classified Good's death.[5]

The administration announced the end of the enforcement surge in February.[14] Minnesota investigators later said the FBI had refused to share evidence from its investigation into Pretti's killing.[6]

A separate nonfatal shooting during the same operation led to charges against ICE officer Christian Castro. Minnesota prosecutors accused him of shooting Venezuelan man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through a door and lying about the encounter.[7] After Castro was arrested in Texas, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Governor Greg Abbott to compel his extradition.[15] In September, Castro appeared before a Minnesota judge on state charges. Reporting at that time also said he was due to appear in federal court.[16]

On October 1, Good's family filed civil lawsuits against the US government and immigration officials over her death, challenging the government's account of the shooting.[8] Those civil claims are separate from the criminal charges arising from the nonfatal encounter.

In late October, Minnesota officials said the federal government had again stopped sharing evidence in the Good and Pretti killings. The state was still seeking the officers' cell phones and recordings of key interviews.[17]

Supporting stories (17)
  1. Fatal shooting by ICE agent in Minneapolis raises questions about officers firing at moving vehicles
  2. The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say
  3. Minneapolis mayor says ICE officer’s killing of a motorist was ‘reckless’ and wasn’t self-defense
  4. What we know so far about the latest killing by federal officers in Minneapolis
  5. Alex Pretti's death ruled a homicide by medical examiner
  6. Hopes that FBI would share evidence in Alex Pretti's killing with state investigators have shattered
  7. ICE officer charged with assault in shooting during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
  8. Renee Good’s family sues ICE agent and top officials over Minnesota killing
  9. Trump administration plans aggressive immigration crackdown with 2,000 agents in Minnesota amid welfare fraud scandal
  10. Minneapolis ICE shooting: FBI will lead investigation; BCA won't have access to case material
  11. Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says
  12. Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds
  13. The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the killing of Alex Pretti
  14. Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown
  15. Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial
  16. ICE agent charged in non-fatal Minneapolis shooting appears for federal charges
  17. State officials say federal government is again withholding evidence in Pretti and Good shootings

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 86 recorded updates

October 2026

  1. State officials say federal government is again withholding evidence in Pretti and Good shootingsHeadline from West Central Tribune · 21 outlets
  2. Justice Department cuts off evidence sharing with Minnesota investigators probing fatal ICE shootingsHeadline from Local News 8 · 8 outlets

September 2026

  1. Renee Good’s family sues ICE agent and top officials over Minnesota killingHeadline from Hawaiitribune Herald · 82 outlets
  2. ICE agent charged in non-fatal Minneapolis shooting appears for federal chargesHeadline from West Central Tribune · 43 outlets
  3. AP Source: ICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan manHeadline from Bangor Daily News · 67 outlets

August 2026

  1. Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'Headline from ABC News · 7 outlets
  2. ICE agent charged with Minnesota shooting released from jail in TexasHeadline from The Guardian · 64 outlets
  3. Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trialHeadline from KOB 4 · 46 outlets

July 2026

  1. ICE raids took economic tollHeadline from Casper Star-Tribune · 2 outlets

June 2026

  1. Minnesota judge rejects DOJ subpoenas against state officials over immigration enforcementHeadline from Park Rapids Enterprise · 21 outlets

May 2026

  1. ICE agent charged in north Minneapolis shooting arrested in TexasHeadline from Fox26 Houston · 17 outlets
  2. ICE agent charged in Minneapolis shooting arrested in TexasHeadline from Duluth News Tribune · 15 outlets
  3. ICE officer charged with assault in shooting during Minneapolis immigration crackdownHeadline from CNN · 16 outlets

April 2026

  1. ICE officer charged with assault for February incident in MNHeadline from Fox5 Atlanta · 8 outlets
  2. County prosecutor charges ICE agent with assault for pointing gun at people on Minneapolis highwayHeadline from ABC 13 Houston · 7 outlets

February 2026

  1. Minnesota’s Legislature braces for a federal immigration fight as the enforcement surge winds downHeadline from Seattle Times · 7 outlets
  2. Hopes that FBI would share evidence in Alex Pretti's killing with state investigators have shatteredHeadline from ABC 7 New York · 10 outlets
  3. Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdownHeadline from KVOA Tucson · 49 outlets
  4. Gov. Tim Walz says federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end within daysHeadline from Southern Minnesota · 5 outlets
  5. Border czar Tom Homan says 700 federal agents will leave MinnesotaHeadline from New York Post · 46 outlets
  6. Alex Pretti's death ruled a homicide by medical examinerHeadline from KVIA El Paso · 7 outlets
  7. Alex Pretti shooting: 2 Border Patrol agents reportedly identified in Minnesota incidentHeadline from Fox2 Detroit · 3 outlets

January 2026

  1. Judge says she won’t halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota as a lawsuit proceedsHeadline from WFMZ Allentown · 6 outlets
  2. Judge allows ICE’s Operation Metro Surge to continue in MinnesotaHeadline from NBC New York · 13 outlets
  3. Judge bars arrests of lawful refugees in MinnesotaHeadline from ABC 30 Fresno · 3 outlets

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