"My brother is, and always will be, my hero," Micayla Pretti wrote in an emotional tribute to the 37-year-old Minneapolis resident.

McAllister was one of seven people to speak about Pretti, the man shot and killed by a federal agent on Jan. 24, at the meeting. They joined a growing chorus of people publicly remembering the man that he was during his life.

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot Saturday by Border Patrol officers​, was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital, where he worked with the sickest of the sick in the ICU.

AFGE Local 3669 called the death of Alex Pretti “tragic and senseless” and said it is “especially disappointed” with U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins’ reaction.

MINNEAPOLIS — An online fundraising campaign on behalf of the family of Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot in Minneapolis during a confrontation with federal immigration officers on Jan. 24, has raised more than $1.

Did the parents of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse shot to death by ICE agents in Minneapolis, say their son quit his hospital job months earlier and showed "unusual behavior"? No, that's not true: A statement released by Pretti's

The president's comments come three days after Pretti was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis