On February 1, 2026, ProPublica did what the federal government refused to do: it told the public who actually pulled the triggers in Minneapolis.
The masked immigration agents who ‘allegedly’ shot and killed Alex Pretti were Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35.
If you think publishing the names of armed government agents who fired roughly ten rounds into a man lying on the ground is ‘doxxing,’ you can bite my perineum. This is the United States. We are not supposed to have secret police.
Yet here we are.
Both men work for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, both were operating under Trump’s shiny new enforcement circus called Operation Metro Surge, and both were conveniently shielded from public accountability until journalists forced the issue.
The government’s position?
“Oh yes, two agents discharged their Glock pistols.”
Names? Nope.
Consequences? They were placed on leave.
What kind of leave? Administrative? Paid vacation? Desk duty? Reassignment to another city where nobody knows their faces?
Your guess is as good as mine, because DHS and CBP are treating this like classified nuclear secrets.
For all we know, these guys could already be back on the streets somewhere else, masked up, ‘keeping America safe,’ because transparency apparently stopped being a thing.
While we’re at it, let’s dispense with one popular excuse right now.
This wasn’t a case of inexperienced trainees panicking.
Ochoa joined CBP in 2018. Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works on a special response team, the federal equivalent of SWAT. These are veterans. Career agents. People who supposedly know how to manage volatile situations without turning them into firing squads.
Which means their behavior can’t be blamed on rushed onboarding or poor orientation videos.
This is who they are on the job.
Also, according to ProPublica, Ochoa had dreamed for years of working for Border Patrol. He finally landed the job and somewhere along the way became a self-described gun ‘enthusiast’ with roughly 25 firearms.
That doesn’t sound like public service. That sounds like someone who really, really wants to carry weapons and maybe someday use them on a human being.
And surprise, CBP was his golden ticket.
If you wanted a career path where you get military-grade authority, legal immunity theater, and the chance to shoot civilians while masked, federal immigration enforcement is apparently a solid choice.
Video has surfaced showing Pretti in an earlier confrontation with federal agents days before his death. He yelled. He kicked a taillight. He got tackled.
None of that warrants a death sentence.
Nothing Alex Pretti did justifies being pepper-sprayed, dogpiled by armed agents, disarmed (according to multiple video analyses), and then shot repeatedly while on the ground.
That’s not law enforcement.
That’s a mob-style execution with badges.
According to CBP’s own internal notice, one agent yelled, “He’s got a gun!” and then Ochoa and Gutierrez opened fire.
Bystander videos strongly suggest Pretti’s legally owned handgun was already taken from his hip before the first shots.
But CBP won’t release bodycam footage.
State investigators say they’re being blocked.
Congress wasn’t given the shooters’ names.
Local authorities were left in the dark.
So once again, federal agencies circled the wagons while an American citizen bled out in public.
At the very least, these cowards should be suspended without pay pending a real investigation.
At most, they should already be sitting in a cell while prosecutors sort out whether Alex Pretti was murdered. (Spoiler: He was.)
Instead, they’re on mystery leave, protected by institutional opacity, while the Department of Justice slowly decides whether it feels like caring.
This comes just days after another immigration agent killed Renee Good, a mother of three.
Same city. Same masked federal presence. Same lack of accountability.
ProPublica had to pry these names loose because the government refused to tell us who killed a 37-year-old ICU nurse in the middle of Minneapolis.
That alone should terrify you.
We are watching armed federal agents operate anonymously in American cities, shoot civilians, and disappear behind bureaucratic curtains.
That’s not public safety.
That’s authoritarian cosplay with real bullets.
Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez didn’t trip and accidentally fire ten rounds into the back of Alex Pretti.
They made choices.
Now it’s time for the system to make some of its own, preferably involving handcuffs, courtrooms, and actual consequences.
Anything less is just another lie wrapped in a uniform.
(Sources)
Old Man Trench 
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