Videos appear to show federal officer took gun away from Alex Pretti just before fatal shooting, CNN analysis finds

Photo credit: Michael Hicks via Flickr. CC BY 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Thomas Bordeaux, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, and Casey Tolan. CNN – January 24, 2026.

A CNN video analysis appears to show a federal immigration officer removing a gun from Alex Pretti just prior to officers fatally shooting him. Bystander video shows one agent reaching into the scrum of other officers seeking to restrain Pretti and retrieving a weapon that appears to match the firearm the Department of Homeland Security says Pretti possessed. […]

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