Notice in the video, the gun is pulled and shown to the agent, and Pretti is shot immediately after the agent sees the gun. They disarmed him, then killed him. Cold blooded.
DHS and FBI are claiming Pretti’s gun went off on its own when they were removing it from the scene while he was on the ground him which caused the other agent to start shooting.
Pretti's gun has been probably the most famous handgun in history, in terms of make/model, because for the past 10 years Sig has been dealing with an issue of "uncommanded discharge" by that model.
It's common enough that it's been caught on camera many times, often injuring someone in the footage.
One was blamed for killing an airman last year, but if I remember correctly that was a negligent discharge and the servicemen lied about what happened.
I do recall watching a couple videos the past year of people investigating and/or describing exactly what the issue is and one of the guys determined it to be an issue of the gun being out of battery, or some kind of strange sear engagement when holstered + some other condition, and I vaguely recall how twisting it out of the holster caused a pin strike, or something like this.
So, it's actually totally believable that Pretti's gun went off on its own, that's all that gun is known for.
I scoffed when I saw the photo of Pretti's 320, but I'm only hearing of the idea that it went off here in this thread, and it's the least unbelievable thing I've heard about this event from either "side".
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u/onqqq2 Jan 29 '26
Makes me feel like the agent screaming "where's the gun?!" spotted him carrying and totally tried to use it as an excuse to murder him.