Alex Prey
A 37-year-old ICU nurse who was tragically shot and killed by two border patrol agents in Minneapolis after a confrontation.
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1/31/2026, 6:06:10 AM
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1/31/2026, 6:07:06 AM
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Summary
Alex Prey (alternatively identified in news reports as Alex Pretti) was a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Authority hospital in Minneapolis who became a focal point of national controversy following his death during Operation Metro Surge. On January 24, 2026, while serving as a volunteer ICE observer, Prey was shot and killed by federal agents during a confrontation in Minneapolis. His death, along with that of Renee Good, was a central topic on the All-In podcast, where hosts David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, and Chamath Palihapitiya discussed the event in the context of DHS initiatives, the political influence of figures like Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, and the resulting civil unrest in Minnesota under Governor Tim Walz.
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Extracted Attributes
Role
Volunteer ICE observer
Employer
Veterans Health Administration (Minneapolis VA Hospital)
Occupation
ICU Nurse
Age at death
37 years old
Cause of death
Gunshot wounds inflicted by federal agents
Name Discrepancy
Referred to as Alex Prey in podcast summaries and Alex Pretti in news publications
Location of death
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Timeline
- A historic mass strike and day of protest occurs in Minneapolis to demand an end to ICE operations. (Source: https://therealnews.com/nurses-union-abolish-ice-alex-pretti-killing)
2026-01-23
- Alex Prey is shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis while attempting to assist a woman during an ICE operation. (Source: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-pretti-nurse-neighbor-friend/)
2026-01-24
- A makeshift memorial is established on Nicolett Avenue and the victim's family issues a statement condemning the shooting. (Source: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-26/minneapolis-protests-against-impunity-of-the-immigration-agents-who-killed-alex-pretti.html)
2026-01-25
- National Nurses United holds a memorial rally for Prey outside the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago. (Source: https://therealnews.com/nurses-union-abolish-ice-alex-pretti-killing)
2026-01-27
Wikipedia
View on WikipediaPrey (2017 video game)
Prey is a 2017 first-person shooter immersive sim video game developed by Arkane Austin and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on May 5, 2017. Prey takes place in an alternate timeline in which an accelerated Space Race resulted in mankind taking to orbital stations far earlier. The player controls Morgan Yu while exploring the space station Talos I, in orbit around Earth–Moon L2, where they were part of a scientific team researching the Typhon, a hostile alien force composed of many forms with both physical and psychic powers, such as shapeshifting into a clone of any inanimate object. As the Typhon escape confinement, the player uses a variety of weapons and abilities, some of which are derived from the Typhon themselves, to survive while progressing to end the alien outbreak on the station and ultimately escape. The player gradually gains access to areas of Talos I through linear mission progression - acquiring key items and abilities along the way - eventually allowing the player to explore the station in an open world setting. The game combines elements of first-person shooters, role-playing video games, stealth games, and Metroidvanias in its design. Arkane's Prey is largely unrelated to the 2006 game Prey developed by Human Head Studios. While Prey 2, a sequel to the 2006 game, had been planned by Human Head, it fell into development hell following the transfer of the intellectual property from 3D Realms to Bethesda Softworks, and was eventually canceled in 2014. Arkane's game does not use any of the planned sequel's assets and only incorporates the previous game's name and the broad theme of the protagonist being hunted by aliens. Arkane built Prey as a spiritual successor to System Shock, giving players multiple avenues to approach and tackle missions while considering the Talos I station a thematic reinterpretation of the underground dungeon from their debut game, Arx Fatalis. Prey received positive reviews from critics and is considered one of the best games of all time by several gaming magazines and websites. Two expansions were released: Mooncrash, a procedurally-generated mode inspired by various roguelike games, and a multiplayer Typhon Hunter that incorporates the Typhon shapeshifting abilities in a hide-and-seek style game. Retrospectively, the game has been recognized by several gaming publications as one of the best immersive sims released to date.
Web Search Results
- Alex Prey - bop technology & design - LinkedIn
# Alex Prey Owner/Graphic & Web Designer/PC & Network Tech at BOP Technology & Design Solana Beach, California, United States, US 46 connections, 51 followers ## About N/A ## Experience ### Tech/Graphic Design Prodigi Kids, Inc. Jan 2019 - Present San Diego, California, United States ### Owner bop technology & design Jan 2010 - Present None ### Owner/Graphic & Web Designer/PC & Network Tech bop technology & design Jan 2010 - Present None ## Education ### San Diego State University-California State University N/A N/A - Present None ## Publications N/A ## Honors & Awards N/A ## Certifications N/A ## Volunteering N/A ## Languages N/A ## Organizations N/A [...] ## People Also Viewed - Ken L. (Owner - The Happy Printer) - - Juanita C White (Brand Designer & Strategist | Content Marketing Specialist | Photographer | Creative Entrepreneur | Published Author | Speaker) - - Ronnie Custer (Founder & Chief Architect at Aetherium Dynamics | Architecting the Symbiotic Future of Creativity) - - Colin Miller (Custom Websites - Passionate Customer Service) - - Erica Conway (None) - - Felicia Zwebner (None) - - Genaro Gascón (None) - - Brandon Cook (None) - - European Painter - Darek Sokol (None) - - PJ Gunner (Gordon Holbrook) - - Perparim Qazimi (Artist & Poet) - - Daniel Lewis (Owner at Where The Shows Are!!!) - - Don Sala (None) - - Tiffany Davis (None) - - Glen Edelstein (None) - - Justin Garand (None) - [...] ## Languages N/A ## Organizations N/A ## Activity - Startup life as a founder. Who else can relate? Juggling fundraising, operations, corporate, finance, marketing, PR, sales, designing, R&D… Liked by Alex Prey View Post Activity Image
- Characters in Prey (2017) - TV Tropes
Utopia Justifies the Means: Alex has good intentions, but he's willing to go to extreme lengths for them, and even engages in cognitive dissonance to do what he believes is right. He forces Morgan into the sim when they start pushing back, constantly justifies the inhumane experiments and outright murder of people on the station, and the password for his terminals is "Chenghuanshen", a Chinese deity figure tasked with protecting humanity. Saying that Alex is a little full of himself is an understatement. [...] Dr. Alex Yu ## Doctor Alex Yu Voiced by: Benedict Wong (Prey), David Chin (Mooncrash DLC) The older brother of Morgan and President of TranStar. [...] Undying Loyalty: He's completely trustworthy. Alex doesn't suspect him for a second when he finds a listening device in his office and immediately gets him to help uncover the perpetrator. And when he goes up against the KASMA mole, he can still choose to do his duty and avenge his team's deaths rather than pursue an antidote to the poison in his system.
- Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil | The Nation
mostly illegally, by masked invaders sent by Trump. They do their laundry, they bring them food, they walk their children to and from school so they can stay at home and try to stay safe (although that strategy is failing as ICE agents increasingly hunt their prey door to door). [...] On Saturday morning in Minneapolis, federal agents murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse at a local Veterans Authority hospital. Pretti was trying to help a woman whom federal agents shoved violently to the ground. A fellow ICE observer, the woman flew a few feet through the air and landed hard; it had to hurt. “Are you OK?” Pretti asked her, according to bystanders. Those were his last known words. He kept trying to help the woman, and the agents kept trying to stop him, finally shooting him in the head at close range, execution-style, and then at least nine more times. (You can see videos, and a still photo of his execution I wish I hadn’t seen, all over social media.) Pretti died on the scene. [...] # Log In Forgot Your Password? New to The Nation? Subscribe Print subscriber? Activate your online access ###### Sections ###### The Nation ###### Current Issue Cover of February 2026 Issue # Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice. Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 25, 2026.
- Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing
On Friday, Jan. 23, around 50,000 people in Minneapolis, MN, engaged in a historic mass strike and day of protest to demand an end to ICE terror and President Donald Trump’s federal siege of Minnesota. Then, on Saturday, Jan. 24, an ICE agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, volunteer ICE observer and a registered union nurse who worked for the Veterans Health Administration. In this episode, we speak with Mary C. Turner, a registered nurse and a member of the Council of Presidents of National Nurses United, the largest nurse’s union in the US, which is forcefully calling for the abolition of ICE. Additional links/info: [...] Medical workers, union members, and veterans gather for an 'ICE OUT NOW!' rally and memorial for Alex Pretti outside the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center on January 27, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images [...] nursing colleague, Alex Preti, national Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses with more than 225,000 members issued the following statement, the nation’s nurses who make it their mission to care for and save human lives are horrified and outraged that immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.
- Minneapolis protests against 'impunity' of the immigration agents ...
The site where Alex Pretti was killed—he had been protesting the deployment of agents on Saturday and had stepped in between a group of officers and a woman being pepper sprayed, before being shot at point-blank range a dozen times—became the focal point of protests in the early hours of another day of clashes. Hundreds of people began gathering shortly after dawn on Nicolett Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares of this Midwestern city, to see for themselves what the entire world had been witnessing for the past 24 hours in videos taken by witnesses: the scene of a tragedy that has inflamed tensions in a city already on edge. [...] Skip to content \_ \_ \_ Select: - - - España América + México + Colombia + Chile + Argentina US Español US English subscribeLOG IN U.S. # Minneapolis protests against ‘impunity’ of the immigration agents who killed Alex Pretti The sidewalk where the American nurse was shot a dozen times at point-blank range has become a place of pilgrimage for residents protesting the government’s takeover of the Democratic city Iker Seisdedos Washington - Share on Whatsapp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Bluesky Share on Linkedin Copy link [...] On Saturday night, after a vigil in a nearby park, the victim’s family reacted, describing the White House’s version of events in a statement as “sickening lies.” “Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. (...) Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs,” the statement read.