The Border Patrol agents involved in the death of demonstrator Alex Pretti have been placed on leave amid an investigation, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Fox News.

Pretti was shot over the weekend during a physical altercation with the agents in Minneapolis, Minn., where Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have surged operations in the wake of large-scale public fraud reports linked to the Somali expat community.

Pretti, an ICU nurse, was the second fatality of the current deployment, following Renee Good, whom an agent shot in her vehicle during an unrelated incident.

Both figures have become martyrs for the anti-ICE cause, though the Department of Homeland Security has defended the conduct of the agents involved in both matters.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.