“I am appalled at the bad attacks on innocent Minnesotans in St. Cloud last night”.
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It’s unclear what time he put on a security guard’s uniform like the one he wore while working a previous job at a nearby appliance factory.
The court record and a driver’s license database show Adan as 20 years old.
Adan went to a central Minnesota mall and cut or stabbed 10 people before he was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on Saturday.
“As we mourn the death of our son, Dahir Adan, who was very dear to us, we are in deep shock as everyone else is in the state of Minnesota”, the statement said.
Looking at a bank of news cameras, Nellis said, “We recognize that he saved many lives, but we also have to realize that he’s also a victim”, said Nellis about Falconer’s condition, who wasn’t at the press conference.
We spoke with Adan’s father through an interpreter on Sunday. “His profile says he focuses on firearms and permit-to-carry training, and also teaches “decision shooting” to law enforcement students at St. Cloud State University”, reported the Washington Times.
When asked what he was doing at the mall on a Saturday night, Falconer smiled and answered, “Buying my son’s birthday present”. Police said the suspect made references to Allah and asked at least one stabbing victim if he or she was Muslim before assaulting that person.
Authorities have not confirmed a link to any terrorist groups, but a news agency tied to the Islamic State asserted responsibility for the attack, calling Adan was “a soldier of the Islamic State”. Securitas, in a statement, said Adan resigned in June.
St. Cloud, a 67,000-person town about 65 miles northwest of Minneapolis, is one of Minnesota’s larger immigrant Muslim communities.
“It’s hard for a community, but it’s also important that the community gathers together and is strengthed by that”, says Kleis. Several Somalis said they saw pickups driving through predominantly Somali neighborhoods the night after the attack, waving confederate flags and honking. Last year, students staged two walkouts in support of a Somali student was falsely labeled on the social media app Snapchat as a member of Islamic State.
“There are incidents of discrimination”. The assault would be the first time a Somali person attacks USA citizens on American soil.
“Call 911!” the girl said, according to Schliep.
Eyewitnesses reported on Sunday evening that a handful of pickup trucks, some flying American and Confederate flags, buzzed by apartment complexes where many Somali-Americans live. He worked part-time as a security guard at Electrolux Home Products in St. Cloud. Adan had enrolled at the school for the spring 2016 semester, but was not enrolled for the fall.
Dahir Adan, 22, is seen in a Facebook photo.
“No one is talking right now”, one man said from his doorway. Three times, and then, even after that, he was still attempting to get back up again. It is our challenge to be aware, to report suspicious activity and not give in to fear. Since 2014, nine Somali-Americans from Minnesota were either convicted at trial or pleaded guilty in a plot to join ISIS by traveling to Syria.
An off duty police officer from another city who just happened to be at Macy’s shot the man, preventing many further injuries, police said.
One of the victims of the Minnesota mall stabbings has said the man who carried out the attack showed no emotion and his eyes looked blank. Another man suggested Adan had been provoked into a mall fight. “I want to know everything about this man, from the day he was born until last Saturday”, said St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson.
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Minutes after the stabbings began, off-duty Avon police officer Jason Falconer fatally shot the suspect. Police said Monday that Adan struggled to get up three times before he died.
