The shooting began on the evening of May 30, 2024. Residents at an apartment building near the intersection of Blaisdell Avenue and West 22nd Avenue in
Whittier, a neighborhood south of downtown
Minneapolis, heard four or five gunshots.
Minneapolis Police Department officers responded to reports that two people had been shot inside an apartment. Jamal Mitchell, an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, was among the
first responders to arrive at the scene. He was heading to the apartment building when he stopped his car about two blocks away. He said via a radio transmission that he observed two men with injuries, who were later identified as a wounded bystander and Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed. Mitchell exited his police vehicle and approached Mohamed, who was sitting on the ground next to a parked vehicle on the 2100 block of Blaisdell Avenue. Two other officers who arrived at the scene observed Mohamed repeatedly firing at Mitchell. Mohamed shot at the two officers, who then exchanged fire with him. A 38-year-old civilian sustained critical injuries while driving through an intersection on his way home from work. He was caught in the crossfire during the shootout. Other police officers entered the apartment building and found two gunshot victims, a deceased person and another with life-threatening injuries. situation, police officers evacuated the building and kicked in several apartment doors in a search of the building.
Victims Two civilians were killed by the initial gunfire inside the apartment building. Osman Said Jimale, a 32-year-old man, was found dead inside an apartment. According to the
Hennepin County medical examiner, he had died of multiple gunshot wounds. Mohamed Bashir Aden, a 36-year-old man from
Columbia Heights, was found inside the same apartment with life-threatening injuries and he was transported to a hospital. Two Minneapolis police officers and a firefighter with the
Minneapolis Fire Department were struck during an exchange of gunfire. The other police officer was treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries and released within a few days. A civilian bystander was also critically injured by gunfire. – May 30, 2024), Mohamed had been convicted of state burglary charges related to incidents in 2006 and 2007. He received a four-year sentence and was put on probation. In 2008, he was convicted of a state burglary charge in Minnesota and for violating the previous terms of his sentence; he received a 1½-year sentence that ran concurrently with his prior convictions. In 2009, he was convicted for vehicle tampering in Missouri, and back in Minnesota a few years later, Mohamed was convicted of federal charges in 2015 for felony possession of a stolen gun and received an eight-year sentence. He left prison in 2020 and was put on supervised release. In 2022, Mohamed was arrested after reports of a robbery in downtown Minneapolis when he was allegedly seen with a firearm, which violated the terms of his prior state sentence. Mohamed was released from custody on a non-cash bond while awaiting pending state criminal charges. Warrants were issued for his arrest when he failed to appear for a court hearing. == Aftermath ==