Star Tribune
Man kills brother, 7, in Eden Prairie home and is arrested
A 28-year-old man with a history of violence and mental illness remains jailed Thursday on suspicion of killing his 7-year-old brother in an Eden Prairie home, officials said late Wednesday.
Officers were called about 10 p.m. Tuesday to the house in the 9000 block of Lee Drive for a welfare check on a 28-year-old man believed to be in crisis, police said in a statement.
While checking on other residents in the house, officers found an unresponsive boy, police said. The child was taken to M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, where he was pronounced dead. Police did not say how the boy was killed.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday identified the boy as Abdullahi Gelle.
The man was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, police said. He was taken to the Hennepin County jail following a medical evaluation and remains in custody without bail pending charges, police added. The Star Tribune generally does not identify suspects before they are charged.
Court records show that the suspect is the brother of 23-year-old Dolal Idd, who was shot to death in December 2020 at a south Minneapolis gas station by police during a sting operation.
The Dakota County Attorney’s Office said the officers were justified in shooting Dolal Idd because he disobeyed police orders and fired at them first in the parking lot of a Holiday gas station at 36th Street and Cedar Avenue.
At the time of the boy’s death this week, the man was under supervision with the Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections stemming from his conviction in 2015 for first-degree assault and burglary for the robbery of a Life Time Fitness member in an Eden Prairie locker room that left the man badly beaten. He unleashed a similar attack on a resident in a randomly chosen home in the city about an hour later.
He was given an 8 1⁄2-year sentence, left prison in late 2022 and put on supervised release.
Court records reveal the suspect has suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. He has been been under court-ordered civil commitment in the past and was under the guardianship of his sister from early 2020 until January 2023, the records disclosed.
St. Louis Park will soon require landlords to give renters more notice before they file for evictions over late payments.
The city currently requires landlords to give tenants notice seven days before they file for eviction. Starting in November, landlords will have to give 30 days notice and use a form prepared by the city.
“This is a tough ordinance,” Council Member Lynette Dumalag, the only person to vote against the change, said during a meeting this week. “At least for me, personally, I felt that it pit those that care about affordable housing against one another.”
In public hearings and other forums, city leaders heard from renters who said the current requirements didn’t give them enough time to scrape together payments if they face a sudden hardship, such as losing a job. They also heard from at least one landlord who said he might have to increase deposits because he already struggles to make ends meet when renters fall behind on payments.
The change passed 4 to 1. Council Member Tim Brausen and Mayor Nadia Mohamed were absent.
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — Ryan Leckner has resigned as Mayor of Park Rapids and the city council has officially declared a vacancy.
City Administrator Angel Weasner said councilmembers will hold a workshop on Sept. 24 to determine how to proceed. They can fill the vacancy by appointment or hold a special election, which Leckner said seems unlikely given that the November general election is just around the corner.
Until then, Leckner said “we’re thinking that we’ll just be able to get by with just one less council member.”
He added that Councilmember Liz Stone would likely serve as acting mayor until voters hit the polls.
Former Park Rapids Mayor Pat Mikesh is running uncontested for Leckner’s now-vacant seat.
In 2018, Mikesh stepped down a month before the election and Leckner successfully ran as a write-in candidate.
Leckner first joined the council in 2015 and is ending his third, two-year term as mayor early because his family built a home outside city limits. Construction of the home in Henrietta Township, and the sale of his existing home in Park Rapids, all happened faster than expected, he said.
“My term was up in November anyways,” he said, “so I was kind of planning on just not running.”
In the 27 years since Rhode Island’s first charter school opened its doors, just one has closed. Segue Institute for Learning, a community charter in Central Falls, R.I., is among the state’s successes. It has an extraordinarily low student-to-teacher ratio of 4 to 1, even though it spends less than a typical Rhode Island school.
Part III
How Rhode Island’s charter schools succeeded where Minnesota’s failed
Each spring, Blackstone Valley Prep in Rhode Island hosts a loud, spirited and celebratory “college signing day” ceremony for its high school seniors. One by one, the teenagers step onstage to proudly announce their post-graduation plans. Many are the first in their family to seek a degree.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, but it’s here — and not in Minnesota, the birthplace of the charter school movement — that this daring experiment in public school education is paying big dividends for students and their families.
Left In the 27 years since Rhode Island’s first charter school opened its doors, just one has closed. Segue Institute for Learning, a community charter in Central Falls, R.I., is among the state’s successes. It has an extraordinarily low student-to-teacher ratio of 4 to 1, even though it spends less than a typical Rhode Island school.
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