A split image shows photos of Alex Pretti, left, and Renee Good, right, at memorials for both in Minneapolis.(Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)/(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that the federal agents who killed Alex Pretti on Saturday and Renee Good earlier this month in Minneapolis have been placed on leave.

"The two officers involved are on administrative leave," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement, referring to the Customs and Border Protection employees who killed Pretti. "This is standard protocol."

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told HuffPost in a separate statement that Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good, had also been placed on leave. McLaughlin did not specify when that had taken place.

Hinting at an agency in disarray, DHS`s statement on Wednesday is the exact opposite of what Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino told the media on Sunday, when he said that the agents who had killed Pretti were still working - but had been reassigned to a different location for their own safety.

"All agents that were involved in that scene are working, not in Minneapolis, but in other locations," Bovino told reporters. "That`s for their safety. There`s this thing called doxing. And the safety of our employees is very important to us. So we`re going to keep those employees safe."

The unidentified agents fired around 10 bullets at Pretti at close range, some of them into the 37-year-old VA nurse`s back.

While DHS claimed in a statement on social media that Pretti had "approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun," the claim was disproven by multiple videos and CBP`s own preliminary report.

The report makes no mention of Pretti reaching for the firearm, which he owned lawfully and was licensed to carry.