In a matter of seconds, a quiet ICU nurse became a national flashpoint.
His ex-wife has broken her silence.
Federal agents say he was a threat.
Video suggests otherwise.
Now a concealed-carry permit, a semiautomatic pistol, and a fractured marriage sit at the center of a country asking what really happened.
Alex Pretti’s death lies at the intersection of law, fear, and perception. To his ex-wife, Rachel Canoun, he was politically engaged, legally armed, and never violent toward her. To federal agents on a Minneapolis street, he was a perceived lethal threat whose movements justified deadly force. Between those accounts is the unresolved question: what happened in the seconds before the shots were fired.
