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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Charges filed in drive-by shooting outside Burnsville High School graduation
Charges were filed Monday after gunshots were fired outside the Burnsville High School graduation on Friday night. No one was injured. The Dakota County Attorney's Office said in criminal complaints: Officers were working security and crowd control outside the high school. They were aware that two groups of people 'were arguing and flashing gang signs towards each other as officers were attempting to disperse the groups. Officers also broke up several physical altercations between the groups that evening.' At about 8:30 p.m., officers heard gunshots coming from the west side of the school. Bystanders directed them to a Toyota Camry, and officers detained the driver and front-seat passenger. The driver was identified as Abdikani Mukhtar Abdiwahab, 18, of Bloomington, and the passenger as Abdulahi Jama Ali, 18, of Shakopee. A bystander was heard saying, 'Ksoe, you missed. You dumb (expletive).' Officers learned Ali's nickname is 'Ksoe.' The bystander was wearing a leopard print or camo jacket. Witnesses reported the Camry's driver was driving recklessly and almost hit another vehicle. They saw a person in a leopard print jacket approach the Camry's passenger side, talk with the occupants and try to punch the Camry with his fist. A barrel of a gun then came out the front passenger window and someone opened fire. Officers found a handgun with an extended magazine under the front passenger seat and a bullet casing on the driver's side floorboard. They also found two bullet casings on the street and a parked vehicle with a bullet fragment in the driver's side headlight. Abdiwahab later told officers he hadn't fired a gun and said his DNA wouldn't be found on the gun taken from the Camry. DNA swabs were taken from the handgun and from Ali, after police obtained a search warrant, and are pending analysis at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Abdiwahab is charged with two counts each of aiding and abetting a drive-by shooting and aiding an offender. Ali is charged with second-degree assault and two counts of drive-by shooting. Both are jailed. The county attorney's office is seeking $200,00 bail or $100,000 with conditions for Abdiwahab, saying that he fired at least three shots from a handgun toward another person and an unoccupied vehicle after the graduation ceremony 'when all attendees were attempting to leave the area,' which was 'a great risk to public safety,' according to a memo about bail. Ali 'continued to drive from the scene and provided false and misleading information to law enforcement to prevent them from identifying' Abdiwahab as the shooter, said another memo about bail. The prosecution is requesting $160,000 bail or $80,000 with conditions. Two other people were arrested in the incident. It wasn't immediately clear if they would be charged Monday. The Friday before Burnsville's graduation, two people were injured in a shooting outside Mariucci Arena at the University of Minnesota after the Wayzata High School graduation ceremony. A 20-year-old from Coon Rapids is charged in that case. Under Patel, FBI heightens focus on violent crime, illegal immigration. Other threats abound, too Lakeville man sentenced in first wage theft criminal conviction in state St. Paul fire inspector charged in assault of 13-year-old on way to school Police: Gunshots followed Burnsville High School graduation ceremony, but no injuries Brooklyn Center attorney suspended by Minnesota Supreme Court
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Miami Herald
09-05-2025
- Miami Herald
72-year-old shot dead by caretaker, MN family says. ‘Someone he called a friend'
A 72-year-old man was shot and killed with his own rifle by a live-in caretaker, Minnesota police and family say. Jacob John Audie, 36, called 911 before 9 p.m. on Friday, April 11, and told police he had shot his roommate inside their St. Paul apartment, the Dakota County Attorney's Office said in an April 14 news release. Police arrested Audie in the parking lot then went into the apartment to find Michael Schille dead in a back bedroom, prosecutors said. He was sitting on a couch with a gunshot wound to the face, clutching a TV remote in his hand, reported. Investigators pronounced Schille dead at the scene. Audie was more than a roommate, according to police. He looked after Schille and kept their apartment clean, acting as a caretaker during the two years the men lived together, KSTP reported citing charging documents. Police say Audie killed Schille with an AR-15, which they located in the living room. A spent rifle casing was also found on the couch, the DA's office said. The rifle belonged to Schille, KSTP reported. Schille's daughters said he was a veteran and a loving father, and his killing 'doesn't make sense,' KARE reported. 'Yesterday was so hard for me. It's the day my father was murdered by someone he called a friend. I've been running from the pain all day,' his daughter, Andrea Schille, wrote in a Facebook post. 'But now reality is setting in (and) it has been so hard. I love you so much, miss your laugh, your jokes. Why did he murder you? Why did he call you a friend if he hated you?' Officials have not said what may have motivated Audie. Schille's cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head, according to the district attorney's office. Audie was taken into custody, and his bail is set at $1 million.
CBS News
15-04-2025
- CBS News
Man, 36, charged with killing elderly roommate inside Twin Cities apartment with victim's rifle
A 36-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his roommate in the face on Friday in the Twin Cities is now charged with second-degree murder. The Dakota County Attorney's Office says the suspect, from Hudson, Wisconsin, allegedly killed 72-year-old Michael Schille on Friday night inside their South St. Paul apartment. The criminal complaint states he called 911 to report shooting Schille, and police officers soon arrived and took him into custody without incident in his building's parking lot. Officers found the weapon, noted in the complaint as Schille's "AR-style rifle," in the living room with a live round next to it. Schille was found dead on his bedroom couch, clutching a TV remote, with a single gunshot wound to the cheek. Investigators say an ammo magazine was also found on a table in Schille's room, with a spent casing lying on a nearby couch. According to the complaint, the suspect told police he had lived with Schille for "the last one to two years" and "helped care" for him and "clean the apartment." Police did not note any possible motives. If convicted, the suspect could face decades in prison.
