A teenager living in St. Louis Park was arrested this week and is now charged in connection to the double shooting at the Eden Prairie High School homecoming football game last Friday.
The shooting last week that left an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy with non-life-threatening injuries outside Aerie Stadium is just one of dozens of incidents of violence involving Somalis across the Twin Cities and the state in recent weeks and months.
Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, who lives in public housing owned by the City of St. Louis Park, has been charged in Hennepin County District Court with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon.
Adam was taken into custody Thursday, nearly a week after the shootings, through the cooperation and coordination between several law enforcement agencies.
The criminal complaint does not describe a motive for the shootings but details that the shootings were captured on surveillance video, which showed Adam as the sole occupant and driver of a vehicle that entered the parking lot with another vehicle just prior to the shootings. A fight involving about 10 people occurred near the vehicles, and Adam was seen exiting and entering the vehicle he was driving a couple of times before appearing to fire at the two parties and fleeing the scene.
Officers traced the owner of the vehicle, who the complaint states was not at the site of the shooting, and determined the owner’s younger brother, identified as Adam, was driving the vehicle. Police obtained cellphone location data through a warrant and determined Adam’s phone was in the same place as the suspect vehicle before, during, and after the shooting.
The complaint states that officers were also able to rule out several other suspects because their cellphone locations did not match up with the suspect vehicle location during or after the shootings.
Immediately after the shootings, Adam abandoned his phone and changed his phone number.
Adam remains in custody on $100,000 bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Monday.
News developed this week that multiple law enforcement agencies are working to form a regional task force headed up by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) to tackle the growing problem of Somali youth violence in the Twin Cities and outstate.
Ramsey County Undersheriff told Alpha News’ Liz Collin that the level of violence being committed by Somali youth is “brazen.”
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher raised alarm over the summer about Somali gangs following another string of violent incidents, including a murder on July 4th weekend. Fletcher said at the time, “We cannot afford to deny there’s a problem,” and warned that the 300 current Somali gang members in the Twin Cities could quickly grow to 900.
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