On Jan. 24, federal law enforcement agents shot and killed Alex Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. In the hours that followed, the Trump administration moved aggressively to frame the killing as a narrowly averted attack on law enforcement. President Donald Trump, his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino described Pretti as a would-be assassin, a domestic terrorist, and someone intent on causing maximum damage and massacring federal agents with a handgun.
The alleged gunman who killed three officers and wounded two more in southern Pennsylvania before he was killed by police was a 24-year-old being sought on stalking charges, according to court documents and law enforcement. The violence erupted in rural York county on Wednesday as officers sought Matthew James Ruth, who had also been charged with trespassing, loitering and prowling at night in a domestic-related investigation that began a day earlier, court documents show.
