A ninth victim drove himself to a hospital in Long Prairie for treatment.
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Ahmed Said, executive director of the Somali American Relations Council, said it’s not certain religion motivated the attack.
Adan was a third-year student at St. Cloud State University and had a job as a part-time security guard.
The motive for Saturday’s attack is still unclear. More than 20 young men have left the state since 2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia, and roughly a dozen people have left in recent years to join militants in Syria.
Ahmed Adan said police told him around 9 p.m. Saturday that his son had died at the mall, and that police had raided the family’s apartment, seizing photos and other materials.
Ten people were wounded in the attack on Saturday night..
Vivian Woods, an employee at Forever 21, said employees of the fashion store helped one victim who came into their store while they awaited an ambulance.
Clemens says despite low crime rates in Sioux Falls, the best thing to do in any risky situation is to run from it, hide if you’re stuck and fight attackers if you have to. He just stood there, maybe 10 feet away from me.
The CNN report itself – the written report, not the clip above – is another marvel, making the story about everything else but the terrorist attack.
The attacker’s identity has not been confirmed by law enforcement, but various sources, including leaders of the local, large Somali community, have said he was of Somalian heritage.
But Falconer has consistently been identified in the mainstream mediaonly as as a “former police chief” and “off-duty police officer”.
Since Falconer has not been on the police schedule for some time, he has not been put on administrative leave.
The FBI is calling the attack “a potential act of terrorism”.
Nellis told a news conference on Monday that Falconer needed time to cope.
“We haven’t uncovered anything that would suggest other than a lone attacker at this point”, St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said at a news conference today.
Governor Mark Dayton, alluding on Monday to the need for unity, expressed “deep concern for what occurred” and pledged to aid in the “community’s recovery from that and coming together more unified and stronger than ever before”. It does, however, have a manufacturing facility in St. Cloud. IS claimed partial credit via one of its news services the day after he fatally shot 49 people, according to the center.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she strongly condemned “the apparent terrorist attacks in Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York” and said Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the St. Cloud attack should “steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups”.
Attacker wore a private security uniform and made references to Allah.
“They were screaming, ‘Someone’s stabbing people in the mall, ‘ and people were just really frantic and were running”.
The officer who shot him was identified as Jason Falconer from the nearby Avon police department. His profile says he focuses on firearms and permit-to-carry training and teaches “decision shooting” to law enforcement students at St. Cloud State University. “Macy’s store does have video of his encounter with the off duty officer”, she said at a press conference following the incident.
A STABBING rampage at a U.S. mall in which nine people were hurt is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism, authorities said.
St. Cloud police had previous contact with the suspect through multiple traffic stops, Anderson said.
Family identify the suspect as 22-year-old Dahir Adan.
“Clearly a hero”, Kleis said of the off-duty officer.
“For a few months, he was assigned as a temporary weekend security guard, which ended last June, at Electrolux Home Products in St. Cloud”. It isn’t clear whether Adan was radicalized.
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Mohamoud Mohamed, a spokesman for the Central Minnesota Islamic Center in St. Cloud, said the community in Minnesota had “no connection” to ISIS.
