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Minnesota prosecutors obtain long withheld evidence in investigation into protest shooting deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti 24%

By Philip Marcelo25% Rebecca Boone17% AP40%

7/13/2026, 7:05:49 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Appeal to Authority, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 20% saturation with 146 hits. Analysis detected 1,112 faulty-reasoning hits from 731 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.8% and a BS Rank of 24% (16,680 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 76.20% of the article peer group.

Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against a federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earlier this year. 
“Through the cooperation of our federal partners we have obtained the hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. 
“We have also obtained some of the physical evidence that was previously withheld, including Renee Good’s car.” 
Statements, police body camera video and other evidence had previously been withheld by federal officials in the killings. 
She said state and local investigators now also have in their possession Good’s damaged car. 
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was shot and killed in her car while leaving an anti-immigration enforcement protest in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 as U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surged through the region. 
Related: Photos: Community protest and grief in the wake of Alex Pretti’s killing 
Her death and that of Pretti , a 37-year-old intensive care nurse shot and killed by federal officers just weeks later during a Jan. 24 protest, sparked outrage across the country and calls to rein in immigration enforcement. 
“The wonderful thing now is we have all the evidence,” Moriarty said. 
Investigators are going through all the evidence, including hard drives with statements, hours of video recorded by body-worn cameras and the physical car Good was driving, Moriarty said. 
“We need transparency. 
We need cooperation. 
Our community needs it,” she said. 
“Our democracy requires it.” 
At the end of June, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Moriarty asked a federal judge to push out the deadlines in their lawsuit against the U.S. 
Department of Justice because they said they were in the midst of recently reinitiated “ongoing discussions” with the FBI about information sharing. 
Those ongoing discussions with the FBI about information sharing are likely to affect Minnesota’s request for summary judgment in the case, Ellison and Moriarty wrote in their motion to the court. 
The attorneys representing the federal government signed onto the motion. 
Ellison said he remains “deeply troubled that the federal government spent more than half a year attempting to conceal this evidence from state investigators.” 
“It should never have taken this long for Minnesota law enforcement to gain access to the federal government’s evidence,” he said in a statement. 
“I hope that this is the beginning of a major course correction on the part of the federal government.” 
There have been at least eight deaths since the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign began last year, but nobody has been charged in connection with them. 
A Minneapolis resident, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, was also shot and injured in his home while ICE agents were in pursuit of another man. 
In May, Christian Castro, an ICE agent, was arrested and charged with assault as well as falsely reporting a crime in connection with that Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting. 
Prosecutors say Castro, 52, fired through a home’s front door and shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh. 
In April, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., another ICE agent, was charged with pointing his gun at a motorist and passenger on a Minneapolis highway. 
Related: ‘You’re not going to investigate a federal officer’ 
Prosecutors said at the time it was the first criminal case against a federal officer involved in the Minnesota immigration crackdown. 
On Monday, ICE was involved in the fatal shooting in Maine , according to state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat. 
Details of what transpired in Biddeford, a coastal city of about 23,000 people roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Portland, remain unclear. 
Last week, an ICE agent in Houston fatally shot a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for decades as the homebuilder drove his construction crew to a job site. 
The federal Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has acknowledged officers were looking for someone else when they attempted to stop Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle. 
The agency maintains Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle, prompting an officer to open fire in self-defense. 
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