A well-known Wall Street billionaire has donated money to the family of Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis in a shocking new incident
Bill Ackman (right, back row), pictured at the 2025 edition of Wimbledon with Jamie Dimon, CEO of investment bank JPMorgan Chase, PHOTO: Angela Weiss / AFP / Profimedia Images
Billionaire Bill Ackman, a well-known Wall Street investor, has donated $10,000 to a fundraising campaign for the family of Alex Pretti, the man who was fatally shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, reports The Wall Street Journal, cited by Reuters.
The GoFundMe page intended to support Pretti's “loved ones” had raised more than $1 million as of Monday morning and noted Ackman's donation.
Ackman's firm, Pershing Square, did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
Pretti is the second American fatally shot by ICE officers this month in Minneapolis, the Democratic city where Republican President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed and masked agents in an unprecedented effort to deport illegal immigrants.
Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Sunday that his administration is “reviewing everything and will make a decision” about the deadly new incident, while officials in his administration have defended ICE agents even as video evidence contradicts their version of events.
The billionaire previously donated money to an ICE agent
News of Ackman's donation drew US media attention as he previously donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe page for Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good, the first victim in Minneapolis this month.
The billionaire said at the time that he also intended to support Good's family, “but that page was already closed because it had reached its fundraising goal of $1.5 million.”
“I am simply continuing my long-standing commitment to helping people accused of crimes by providing support for their defense,” Ackman said in early January.
Aged 59, Ackman is known for his activist investor style, the founder of the Pershing Square investment fund also being famous for very large financial bets, some extremely profitable, others spectacularly failed.
Unlike many other billionaires on Wall Street, he frequently appears in the press and on social media, where he comments not only on the economy, but also on politics and sensitive cultural issues.
Trump's response to being asked twice if the federal agent who killed paramedic Alex Pretti on the street in Minneapolis did the right thing
