About 60 people huddled in the wind and cold Sunday evening outside the Veterans Affairs hospital at Lake Nona for a candlelight vigil.
The hospital employees and others honored Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old VA intensive care nurse fatally shot by Department of Homeland Security agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.
Pretti was one of thousands of citizens who opposed the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in that city. But the vigil’s organizers avoided political statements and focused instead on Pretti’s character and his life of service to veterans.
Maria Vazquez, a psychologist at the Orlando hospital, was one of the event organizers with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 559. She said staff at the Orlando VA facility were shocked and heartbroken by his death…