Two MAGA Faggots Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting! 🤡
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Samael — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 01:03 AM)
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
by J. David McSwane
February 1, 2026, 4:10 pm
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
The records viewed by ProPublica list Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, as the shooters during the deadly encounter last weekend that left Pretti dead and ignited massive protests and calls for criminal investigations.
Both men were assigned to Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement dragnet launched in December that sent scores of armed and masked agents across the city.
CBP, which employs both men, has so far refused to release their names and has disclosed few other facts about the deadly incident, which came days after a different immigration agent shot and killed another Minneapolis protester, a 37-year-old mother of three named Renee Good.
Pretti’s killing, and the subsequent secrecy surrounding the agents involved, comes as the country confronts the consequences of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. The sweeps in cities across the country have been marked by scenes of violence, against immigrants and U.S. citizens, by agents allowed to hide their identities with masks — an almost unheard of practice in law enforcement. As a result, the public has been kept from one of the chief ways it has to hold officers involved in such altercations accountable: their identity.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called for a transparent investigation into the killing of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse working at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.
“We must have a transparent, independent investigation into the Minnesota shooting, and those responsible—no matter their title—must be held accountable,” Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah wrote on X on Monday.
The agency sent a notice to some members of Congress on Tuesday acknowledging that two agents fired Glock pistols during the altercation that left Pretti dead. That notice does not include the agents’ names. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP, said the agents had been placed on leave after the Jan. 24 shooting. And after a week of protests and calls from lawmakers for a review, the Justice Department said Friday that its Civil Rights Division is investigating the shooting. A DOJ spokesperson did not answer questions, including whether DHS has shared materials, such as body-camera footage, with its investigators.
Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. He is assigned to a special response team, which conducts high-risk operations like those of police SWAT units. Records show both men are from South Texas.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Gregory Bovino, who has orchestrated high-intensity immigration sweeps and arrests in a string of Democratic-led cities since early 2025, was removed from his role as Border Patrol commander at large and reassigned to his former post in El Centro, California.
A spokesperson for DHS declined to answer questions about the two agents and referred ProPublica to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment. ProPublica made several attempts to call Ochoa and Gutierrez but neither answered.
Ochoa, who goes by Jesse, graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American with a degree in criminal justice, according to his ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa. A longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley, Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.
DHS’ disclosure to Congress was drawn from an internal review of the agents’ body-camera footage, which has not been released to the public. State investigators, meanwhile, have accused their federal counterparts of blocking them from investigating the shooting.
FBI agents work at the scene of the Pretti shooting. Peter DiCampo/ProPublica
“We don’t have any information on the shooters,” a Minneapolis city spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that his office also had “not been given the names, and we don’t have any new information on the investigation.”
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Monday, accused the Justice Department of covering up evidence in both Pretti’s and Good’s killings.
“DOJ has also blocked prosecutors and agents from cooperating with state law enforcement officials and prevented state officials from accessing evidenc -
WarrenPeace — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 01:18 AM)
Note from the editors:
ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed.
The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement.
The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
Good on them for having the balls and courage to do what the chickenshit Turd Lump regime won't.
I will expect to read of an FBI raid on their offices and home offices of reporters stealing their computers any day now and them being kidnapped and blindfolded in a room until they reveal their sources.
You know who else wears masks and does the same **** the ICE Nazis are?
Middle East masked terrorists.
You know.
The very same ones we are being told to fear by MAGA.
And now they are in the streets murdering our innocent and unarmed mothers and health care workers.
There is no difference.
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WarrenPeace — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 01:55 AM)
DHS’ disclosure to Congress was drawn from an internal review of
the agents’ body-camera footage, which has not been released to the public
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Knowing this regime if they ever release it we will get a Loony Tunes cartoon with them claiming someone hacked into it.
There is no ****ing way this **** up of a lying and lawless clown show that ignores law and order which now ONLY goes with Turd Lump law can ever be trusted.
Let us not forget this is the very same side of criminals that pardoned all of those other criminals that attempted a violent coup.
So these criminals, with murderers among them, support other criminals and back and forth between this lawless MAGA it goes.
Their idea is the way to Make America Great is by ignoring the laws that make America great or at least a hell of a lot more decent than the **** show we got now.
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cryptoflovecraft — 1 month ago(February 06, 2026 01:21 PM)
"Neo-fascist", maybe, but too dark to be a Nazi. There are plenty of far right regimes in Latin America and that dude would fit right in with them, but he wouldn't pass Adolf's racial purity test.
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WarrenPeace — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 02:08 AM)
Ochoa
, who goes by Jesse, graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American with a degree in criminal justice, according to his ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa. A longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley, Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he
had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns
, Angelica Ochoa said.
That does not help his case.
Yeah, I know it wasn't helpful for Alex to also have a gun but he had that legal right, never drew it and from what I saw I do not get the idea they had any interest in arresting him at they way they just started dogpiling just to give him a beat down.
Before he was shot one of the Nazi Turds beats his head with a metal object which can cause death.
So if he hadn't been shot he might have bled to death from a beating.
Between the two sides with guns there Alex looks innocent with no blame while this gun nut looks like he has an itchy trigger finger.
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WarrenPeace — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 02:16 AM)
I really can't tell the diff anymore.
Are these ICE terrorist Nazis kidnapping someone while spreading fear in a town or "Muslim" terrorists kidnapping someone while spreading fear in a small town?
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