I grew up with Alex Pretti | The Verge Skip to main contentThe homepage Tech The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend. The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend. The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we’re supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it’s my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of the shooting twice, and emailed a photographer, asking if he could get onto the streets and start documenting what was happening in Minneapolis. As I reviewed photos of protesters and tear gas in the wake of his death, I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend.
Published: January 27, 2026 4:39 pm
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