Mike Baker

quickly collapsed into seconds of chaos.

Multiple videos from the scene show a close-quarter struggle unfolding amid the crowd.

In multiple clips, officers can be heard shouting, quote, he's got a gun as Preti is forced to the ground.

An officer is then seen in one video reaching into Preti's waistband and pulling out a 9mm semi-automatic handgun the moment federal officials say the encounter became deadly.

If you slow the footage down, it does appear that, as the weapon is retrieved by an ICE officer during the struggle, the gun's slide appears to move, suggesting that it may have discharged.

Seconds later, an agent fires multiple rounds at close range.

The shots came with officers and bystanders just feet away.

When the gunfire stops, Preti is motionless on the ground.

DHS said Border Patrol agents were engaged in a federal arrest action already underway and not a random patrol.

When Preti approached them armed with a handgun, two magazines and no ID.

However, there is video footage that appears to show Preti holding a phone, not a handgun.

One does not look like the other.

According to government's versions of events, officers attempted to disarm him, but he violently resisted.

In what officials described was a dangerous confrontation, an agent fired what the department characterizes as, quote, defensive shots.

The officer who fired the fatal rounds was identified only as an eight year veteran of the Border Patrol.

Within hours, authorities explained their response on the ground.

Minnesota National Guard troops were deployed to assist local police with units sent both to the shooting site and a nearby federal building that's become a regular focal point for demonstrations.

Again, a bystander video obtained by the Associated Press shows Preti reaching for and holding a cell phone, not brandishing a weapon.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said police believe Preti was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry, something that's still under investigation.

Minnesota is a carry state, meaning that if Preti purchased the gun legally and held a permit to carry, he had every right to have that weapon on his hip.