Alex Pretti’s ex‑wife speaks out about his firearm and permit

Alex Pretti’s death sits at the collision point of law, fear, and perception. To his ex‑wife, Rachel Canoun, he was a politically engaged man who legally carried a concealed handgun, owned at least one semiautomatic pistol, and never once used it to intimidate her. To federal agents on a Minneapolis street, he was a potential lethal threat whose split‑second movements justified deadly force. Between those two portraits lies the unanswered question: what truly happened in the seconds before the shots were fired.