June 2011 News relating to MN Gun Violence

June 3, 2011 STrib:

A fugitive on the Hennepin County Most Wanted list is in jail after he was arrested Monday in Canada.
Ahmed Abdulqadir Abdi, 29, of Hopkins, had been on the run for five years after he was charged in 2005 with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a man in the head in Minneapolis.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Abdi in connection with an assault that occurred at a bar in Alberta. After Abdi was fingerprinted, the Canadian police discovered he was wanted on a felony warrant in Hennepin County.
Abdi is in jail in Alberta awaiting extradition.

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MN Memorial Weekend Shooting Arrest

June 3 2011 STrib:
Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Burnsville man Sunday night in south Minneapolis.
Acting on information from investigators, patrol officers arrested the 28-year-old suspect at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue S. on Thursday afternoon, police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer said in a news release. The man is being held in the Hennepin County jail pending charges.
He's suspected of shooting Guled Hashi Mohamed near Nicollet and Groveland Avenues about 11:30 p.m. Off-duty police officers heard shots and saw a vehicle leave the scene.
They found the vehicle at the SuperAmerica station at 26th Street and Nicollet. Mohamed had been driven there and was inside the car with a gunshot wound. He died Monday at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Police have not identified a motive in the shooting.
He was among six people shot late Sunday or early Monday during a night of unusually heavy gunfire in the city.
The investigation into Mohamed's death will continue, and police are asking anyone with information relating to the case or any of the other shootings to call them

Update on a MN Memorial Weekend Shooting

From the STrib on Friday, June 3, 2011:

Charge: Man ran up to car in Mpls., fatally shot victim in temple

• Article by: PAUL WALSH , Star Tribune

Guled Hashi Mohamed confronted two men on a downtown Minneapolis street and accused them of following him before a third man ran up and fatally shot him in the temple, according to charges filed Friday.

Biyamin Beiti Omar, 28, of Hopkins, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree intentional murder in the death Sunday night of Mohamed, 26, of Burnsville. Omar was ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail.
Mohamed, a college graduate, was among six people shot late Sunday or early Monday during a night of unusually heavy gunfire in the city.
According witnesses cited in the criminal complaint:
Late Sunday night, Mohamed was a passenger in a car parked near a bar at 18th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Two men came up to the car, and the driver pulled away, prompting the two men to give chase on foot.
The driver stopped, and Mohamed got out and said, "You know me. Why are you following me?"
Mohamed got back in the car, and another man ran toward the car and fired his gun two or three times. Mohamed was wounded in his right temple and died at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Witnesses helped lead police to Omar, who said he was in the area when the shooting occurred but was not involved, didn't witness the crime and didn't see anyone with a gun.
Mohamed is a graduate of Minnesota State University, Moorhead, volunteered for AmeriCorps and planned to attend graduate school at St. Cloud State University, family said. He had a criminal record that in addition to minor offenses included a 2010 felony conviction for terroristic threats, for which he was sentenced to probation.
His family said he came from Somalia to the United States at age 12 and worked hard to attend college and support his family. He was the father of 6-month-old Fatimah, and his wife was expecting a second child. Besides them, survivors include his parents and seven siblings.

And Yet Another Threat in MN of Gun Violence

So, here is a question for readers.  If this man is found to have indeed been involved in a physical domestic abuse as reported here, which may or may not be a felony, for having (allegedly) threatened her and possibly a child with a gun, but not actually shooting anyone (so far anyway), should he lose his gun rights for the rest of his life?

Anyone want to comment on the pros and cons of this threat if it comes from a LEGAL gun?

For those of you who believe that gun violence is primarily a problem of slums, let me point out that Mendota Heights is one of the wealthiest communities in MN, although by no means is everyone who lives there wealthy.  There are many modest middle class homes as well, but no slums.  It's where I grew up; I know it well.

From the June 1, 2011 STrib:

Mendota Heights town homes evacuated because of domestic dispute

Residents in 36 town homes in Mendota Heights were being kept out of their homes late Wednesday night while police tried to negotiate with man who reportedly was armed with a gun.
The man's girlfriend called police about 4:30 p.m. to report a physical domestic dispute at the home on the 2400 block of Lexington Av. and told the emergency dispatcher that the man was going to get a gun, said Mendota Police Chief Mike Aschenbrener said. The woman left the house with a small child.
Aschenbrener said the man called 911 and then hung up. Police evacuated the neighbors, surrounded the house and have tried to contact the man throughout the evening, Aschenbrener said. "So far, he doesn't want to talk," Aschenbrener said.
Police don't believe anyone else is in the house.