Bay Area Health Care Workers Hold Vigil For Alex Pretti

CBS Bay Area

January 28, 2026

Dozens of Highland Hospital health care workers gathered on the sidewalk outside the hospital to hold a vigil for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse who was shot and killed by U.S. Border Control Agents in Minneapolis.

Those at the vigil sang the Woody Guthrie classic, "This Land is Your Land," a message of inclusion and equality, in response to the tragedy.

For first-year emergency medicine resident Allison Leopold, Alex Pretti's death hits close to home because she is from Minneapolis.

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