Alex Pretti
Emotionally Eulogizes Veteran He Handled In ICU, On Video

Revealed
January 25, 2026
4:07 PM PST

Alex Pretti — the ICU nurse who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota — is being remembered as somebody who deeply cared for others. This was possibly most evident in a video exhibiting Alex giving a closing salute to a veteran he handled at a VA hospital.

Mac Randolph, took to Fb to memorialize Alex by exhibiting the footage of Alex honoring his dad. Whereas Mac by no means wished to share the video, he wrote that Alex’s speech “could be very on level.”

Within the clip, Alex says, “Right this moment, we do not forget that freedom is just not free. We’ve to work at it, nurture it, shield it and even sacrifice for it. Might we always remember and at all times keep in mind our brothers and sisters who’ve served, in order that we could benefit from the present of freedom. So on this second, we keep in mind and provides thanks for his or her dedication and selfless service to our nation in the reason for freedom. On this solemn hour, we render our honor and our gratitude.”

In response to Mac, his dad “can be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this present administration.”

Along with being a devoted healthcare employee, Alex was an avid outdoorsman who’d taken to protesting within the aftermath of Renee Nicole Good’s demise earlier this month. His dad and mom instructed him to watch out whereas protesting in a latest dialog.

Alex’s father, Michael Pretti, instructed the Related Press, “He cared about individuals deeply and he was very upset with what was occurring in Minneapolis and all through america with ICE, as thousands and thousands of different persons are upset. He felt that doing the protesting was a strategy to categorical that, , his take care of others.”