No one answered the door late Sunday at a home address listed for Falconer, and a voicemail box for a telephone listing was full and not accepting new messages.
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A man ran into a Minnesota mall Saturday night, where he stabbed nine people.
While police had not yet released the identity of the Minnesota mall attacker, members of the Somali-American community in St. Cloud confirmed to the St. Cloud Times that it was Dahir Adan. “We do not know the motive of that stabbing incident”, said Mohamoud Mohamed of the St. Cloud Area Somali Salvation Organization.
Shortly before 9 p.m., a St. Cloud police officer with a rifle could be seen near the west entrance of Macy’s.
Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Meanwhile, St. Cloud Technical and Community College says Adan was never a student there, as has been reported.
The St. Cloud, Minnesota mall in which the September 17 mass stabbing occurred is a “gun free zone.”
Carranza said officers checked the identification of each person before they left the mall and locked it down. Authorities have given no indication that the attacks were connected. Kleis praised the off-duty police officer, who he said had “clearly saved lives and protected the other individuals”.
The group encourages so-called lone wolf attacks in countries participating an anti-Daesh coalition led by the U.S. He said that he had “no suspicion” of his son being involved in any terrorist activity.
“[The] executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State”, said Amaq news agency, a propaganda outfit for Isil. The FBI has dubbed the attack a “potential act of terrorism”.
“We’re now investigating this as a potential act of terrorism, and I do say potential”, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Richard Thornton, of the agency’s Minneapolis office, said at the press conference.
This kind of attack feeds into the fears being whipped up by Donald Trump, who earlier Saturday was mournfully depicting a nation full of families with “empty chairs at the dinner table” because illegal immigrant criminals are being allowed to run free. They identified him as Officer Jason Falconer.
Kleis called Falconer a hero and said he “happened to be in the right place at the right time”. The victims included seven men, one woman and a 15-year-old girl. The governor also offered his support for the nine victims, three of which were still hospitalized on Sunday. “He was screaming at us, ‘get the F out!'” Makarral says she saw people walking around inside with blood on them. The men screamed to get out of the mall because someone had a knife.
Sydney Weires, Maggie Gelke and Jenna Remmele, students at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, were bored on Saturday and chose to go to the mall. Beyond that moment, though, Anderson said the attack will change the city forever.
An off-duty police officer shot and killed him.
Ashley Bayne, who was visiting a friend at the J.C. Penney store in the mall described the scene to CBS Minnesota.
The St. Cloud mall remained on lockdown following the attack, and authorities eventually released those inside.
A man in a security uniform and armed with a knife entered the mall and stabbed people in several locations, including corridors, businesses and common areas, the chief said.
Anderson said the attack could have been worse but for the response of police and other authorities.
The attack was condemned by leaders of the Somali-American community, but they are also concerned about a backlash.
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It was not immediately clear whether the attacker, whom the police have not identified, had any direct ties to the Islamic State, or whether he acted on his own.
