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In an interview with ABC News' Minneapolis affiliate KSTP, a childhood friend of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old man shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis, reflects on growing up with him.

Travis Vanden Heuvel said "tragedy became devastation" when he found out that it was Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent Saturday morning.

"He was someone who was extremely kind, who was always putting himself in service to others. I mean, even as an 11,12-year-old boy, he was someone who asked how you were doing," Vanden Heuvel said.

"He was someone who could light up a room. People gravitated towards him and his energy. ... It didn't surprise me years later to learn that he would go on to become a nurse and continue to serve people in, you know, a loving and giving spirit that I knew of him when we were just kids," Vanden Heuvel added.

Vice President JD Vance shared a post on X on Sunday, placing blame on Minnesota officials for the ongoing unrest in the state surrounding immigration enforcement.

He claimed that when he was in Minneapolis, he was told a story of federal agents being mobbed by protesters when they were dining at a restaurant.

"This is just a taste of what's happening in Minneapolis because state and local officials refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement," Vance wrote.

The vice president referenced the second fatal shooting this month of an American citizen in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal agent. Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent Saturday morning.

"They have created the chaos so they can have moments like yesterday, where someone tragically dies and politicians get to grandstand about the evils of enforcing the border," Vance said of state and local officials.

The National Basketball Players Association, the union for active NBA players, issued a statement on Sunday defending protesters’ rights to free speech in Minneapolis and expressing condolences to the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

"Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of the fight against injustices, NBA Players can no longer remain silent," the Players Association statement said. "Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice."

The group added, "We refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all."

-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel

In an open letter published on Sunday, the chief executive officers of some of Minnesota's largest businesses are demanding "an immediate de-escalation of tensions” prompted by federal immigration activity in the state and the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday.

Among those who signed the letter were the CEOs of UnitedHealth Group, 3M, Land O’ Lakes, Hormel, U.S. Bancorp, Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill, Mayo Clinic and Xcel Energy. The letter was also signed by the CEOs of the Minnesota Vikings, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Minnesota Wild.

"The business community in Minnesota prides itself in providing leadership and solving problems to ensure a strong and vibrant state. The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life," the letter states.

Citing the fatal shooting of Pretti, the CEOs said, "We are calling for an immediate de-escalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions."

-ABC News' Soo Youn