{"id":933693,"date":"2026-07-14T06:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/933693\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:24:33","slug":"mn-prosecutors-secure-key-evidence-in-renee-good-alex-pretti-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/933693\/","title":{"rendered":"MN prosecutors secure key evidence in Renee Good, Alex Pretti shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal prosecutors turned over key evidence long sought by Minnesota investigators in their ongoing probe into the fatal shootings of Renee Good<\/a> and Alex Pretti<\/a> during pitched protests against an immigration enforcement crackdown earlier this year, state prosecutors announced Monday.<\/p>\n

The progress came as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed<\/a> a motorist in Maine on Monday, and Houston prosecutors complained the administration was still withholding critical information in their investigation into a fatal shooting<\/a> by an ICE officer last week.<\/p>\n

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the evidence turned over by U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Daniel Rosen\u2019s office included previously withheld hard drives containing statements, police body camera video and other materials in the Minnesota killings. Federal prosecutors also turned over Good\u2019s badly damaged SUV, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe wonderful thing now is we have all the evidence,\u201d Moriarty said. \u201cAny time the government is responsible in whatever way of taking the life of a community member we need to have a full and thorough investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed in her vehicle while leaving an anti-immigration enforcement protest in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.<\/p>\n

Her death and that of Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse shot and killed<\/a> days later during a Jan. 24 protest, sparked outrage across the country and calls to rein in<\/a> immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

The Minneapolis immigration crackdown, dubbed \u201cOperation Metro Surge,\u201d ended in February<\/a> after being billed as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever<\/a>. <\/p>\n

At least nine people have been killed nationwide since the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement campaign began last year. No one has been charged in connection with the deaths, and the federal government has suggested state prosecutors don\u2019t have jurisdiction<\/a> to investigate federal officers. <\/p>\n

Lawyers for Good\u2019s family said the transfer of evidence represented \u201can important and meaningful step towards justice and accountability.\u201d The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which took custody of the evidence, declared that \u201cgreat strides have been made\u201d to ensure a \u201cthorough and complete review\u201d of the shootings.<\/p>\n

But a lawyer for Pretti\u2019s family said Rosen\u2019s office, in a meeting Monday afternoon, wouldn\u2019t confirm any cooperation agreement between state and federal agencies.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo family should be required to beg federal authorities to do their job,\u201d Steve Schleicher said in a statement. \u201cWithout a public commitment by federal authorities to cooperate with the state, it is difficult \u2014 if not, impossible \u2014 to pursue justice that holds the individuals accountable for Alex\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespersons for Rosen\u2019s office, as well as ICE and the federal Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, didn\u2019t immediately respond to emails seeking comment Monday.<\/p>\n

Legal wrangling in another ICE-related shooting may have led to evidence release<\/p>\n

Moriarty on Monday declined to provide details on what prompted the federal government to turn over the evidence.<\/p>\n

But documents recently filed in a lawsuit brought by state and local officials suggest the breakthrough came after federal officials sought evidence state investigators gathered in the investigation of ICE agent Christian Castro.<\/p>\n

Castro, 52, was charged with assault<\/a> and falsely reporting a crime in connection with the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Prosecutors say Castro fired through a Minneapolis home\u2019s front door and shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh while in pursuit of another man.<\/p>\n

State and local prosecutors said they would provide evidence in Castro\u2019s case as soon as the federal government agreed to share its evidence in the shootings of Pretti and Good.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are willing to share evidence with you if the exchange is reciprocal,\u201d Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans wrote in a legal filing to federal officials.<\/p>\n

Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison later amended their lawsuit to add details about the federal government\u2019s refusal to share the evidence collected in the fatal shootings.<\/p>\n

Days later, they said in a court filing that the FBI, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and state officials \u201chave recently re-engaged in discussions about the prospect of mutual information sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellison, in a statement Monday, said he remains \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d it took more than half a year for federal officials to hand over the materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should never have taken this long,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that this is the beginning of a major course correction on the part of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moriarty added that she\u2019s not yet prepared to drop the lawsuit against the Trump administration, which seeks access to evidence<\/a> in the three shootings.<\/p>\n

Houston investigators complain feds are leaving them in the dark<\/p>\n

Prosecutors in Houston, meanwhile, echoed similar concerns about obtaining critical information from federal officials as they look into last week\u2019s death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for decades.<\/p>\n

DHS has acknowledged officers stopped Salgado Araujo while looking for someone else<\/a>, but maintains the homebuilder rammed an ICE vehicle while attempting to leave the scene. The agency says that prompted an officer to open fire in self-defense, though it has yet to provide evidence to back up that claim.<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said Monday that his office doesn\u2019t even know the identities of the ICE officers involved or where they are nearly a week later.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government has not invited us in,\u201d Teare said. \u201cThe federal government is not collaborating with us with this investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man killed Monday in Maine was from Colombia. Federal officers claimed he tried to use his vehicle as a weapon against officers pursuing him for deportation. The shooting took place in Biddeford, a coastal city of about 23,000 people roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Portland.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press reporter John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors turned over key evidence long sought by Minnesota investigators in their ongoing probe into the fatal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":933694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[238640,3881,376020,4219,376497,69,57,2055,409,254343,188991,371526,2741,242309,2735,17635,3663,231219,3669,50,80,402,225146,54442,376496,358,5028,3676,2065,61,67,370,132,68],"class_list":["post-933693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-alex-pretti","tag-ap-top-news","tag-christian-castro","tag-crime","tag-daniel-rosen","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-immigration","tag-julio-cesar-sosa-celis","tag-keith-ellison","tag-lorenzo-salgado-araujo","tag-maine","tag-mary-moriarty","tag-me-state-wire","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-ice-crackdown","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-renee-good","tag-sean-teare","tag-steve-schleicher","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}