The family of Alex Pretti says they found out their son had been shot and killed by watching news coverage of the shooting and were never informed by authorities.
Michael and Susan, Pretti’s mother and father, along with his sister, Micayla, revealed this information in their first televised interview with ABC News on Tuesday morning, also sharing their thoughts surrounding the killing of their son seven months after his death.
Pretti, 37, was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Nicollet Avenue near East 26th Street on January 24 during the height of Operation Metro Surge. Videos from bystanders who witnessed the shooting show Pretti holding a cellphone and watching federal immigration agents operating in the area…