Nurse's Family Demands Truth Seven Months After Shooting

"No one called us," Michael Pretti said. "That's how we found out, watching it on TV. Watching our son be shot 10 times on TV." His mother added: "In the back."

Michael Pretti said of the administration's response: "There was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice, investigating this." Of Trump's post, he said: "It's so un-presidential. It's ridiculous that, you know, the leader of the free world speaks that way about an American citizen." Susan Pretti said she wants an apology: "Why shouldn't we get one?"

His sister, Micayla Pretti, asked, "How are you supposed to trust a government after that?" Asked what justice looks like, she said she wants the names of the agents who shot her brother officially released.

Administration officials moved quickly to blame Pretti after the shooting. Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called him an "assassin" and "domestic terrorist" who "tried to murder federal agents." Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he "committed an act of domestic terrorism." Former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino said it looked like Pretti wanted "to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."

White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said: "President Trump's response has remained consistent throughout this entire situation: he views Mr. Pretti's death as a tragedy and has advocated for a fact-based investigation." She added that Trump "views the deaths of countless innocent Americans at the hands of criminal illegal aliens as a tragedy that should warrant equal coverage." The White House declined to comment to ABC News on the Trump and Miller statements.

A DHS spokesman said the department "works to give the American people accurate information as quickly as possible" and that "these statements were made based on information received on the ground from CBP," urging people "not to impede any law enforcement action and ICE operations."