The grieving family of Alex Pretti broke their silence Tuesday on his killing by federal immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis last winter, demanding answers about the shooting death and justice for their slain son.

The ICU nurse’s parents and sister said Pretti was documenting President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and never posed a threat to the Border Patrol agents or anybody else when they tackled him to the pavement and killed him on Jan. 24.

“What did he do to deserve to be murdered? To be left cold, on the ground, dead?” mom Susan Pretti asked in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America." “My child? What did he do?”

Michael Pretti, Alex’s father, said the family found out their son had been shot when they saw news reports.

“That’s how we found out, watching it on TV. Watching our son be shot 10 times on TV,” Michael Pretti said.

“In the back,” Susan Pretti added.

Pretti, 37, who worked at a Veterans Administration hospital, was the second U.S. citizen killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis after Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent as she tried to drive away from a confrontation with them.

Pretti was using his phone to record immigration agents when officers violently shoved a protester toward him, video showed. When Pretti tried to help the woman, the agents turned on him and wrestled him to the ground.

That’s when they discovered he was carrying a gun, for which he had a license and a legal right to carry in Minnesota. At least two agents opened fire on Pretti and killed him.

The heartbroken mom said the family is stunned that they still have no answers.

“My shock is that he was murdered and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it’s been seven months,” Susan Pretti said.

Michael Pretti said the family won’t stop pushing for justice.

“The videos are pretty clear. But we want justice. We want accountability for the people that did this to Alex,” Michael Pretti said.

In the days after the killing, Trump administration officials branded Pretti as a “terrorist” who tried to hurt the officers, though the videos showed no apparent wrongdoing. Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller called him an “assassin” and “domestic terrorist.”

“There was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice, investigating this,” Michael Pretti said.

The Department of Justice says it’s investigating the killing, but there has been no sign of an active federal probe into the two agents who are shown in videos shooting Pretti. State investigators are pushing to open their own investigation but have been stymied by the feds’ refusal to fully cooperate.

“They murdered our child,” Susan Pretti said. “People need to be held responsible when they murder people in this country. Period.”

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