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Minnesota family mourns cousins killed in Israeli strike
Fatma Abumousa of Blaine learned Sunday her sister-in-law, cousin and three nephews had been killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
BLAINE, Minnesota — Fatma Abumousa cannot stop checking her phone, looking for any updates on the crisis in Gaza.
Abumousa was born and raised in Gaza and lived there for nearly four decades. Her husband, Jehad Adwan, is also from Gaza and has lived in Minnesota since 1998. The couple, along with their 21-month-old son, live in Blaine.
While following updates, they learned of an Israeli airstrike early Sunday morning.
“She heard that they bombed her hometown, and then the next blurb was… the neighborhood where she lived. And then the next blurb was her family’s house,” Adwan said.
Abumousa soon learned that her sister-in-law, cousin and three nephews were all killed in the attack.
“It was devastating to see and to hear the loss of life. The suffering these children had to go through,” Adwan said.
Nephews Yusef, 6, and Abdelrahman, 7, and Hmaid, 18, were all killed.
Hmaid had just graduated high school. He was an artist who loved calligraphy and had dreams of studying overseas.
“She’s very, very devastated for the children,” Adwan translated for his wife. “The kids, she attended all their births. She held them as babies.”
Sister-in-law Hiba Abumousa was a poet and published author.
“Her sister-in-law, her body was completely pulverized and they had to collect little bit here, little bit there… all these pieces put them together to bury her,” Adwan said.
Abumousa’s cousin, Hani Madhoun, fled the north believing he had found refuge in the south.
The family was in their multi-story building at the Khan Younis refugee camp when the attack happened. Israeli forces struck their building twice.
“This has been going on for too long. We’ve been suffering for 75 years since 1948 when Israel was established because my family, her family, were made refugees at the time,” Adwan said.
Adwan explained how in Gaza you have a lot of multi-story buildings housing multiple generations of families.
“It’s just so much and other families experienced much worse by multiple generations being wiped off completely from grandparents all the way down to grandkids. Completely. The Palestinians live in a very small piece of land called Gaza… 2.2 or 2.3 million people living in an area that is just about the boundaries, city of Minneapolis,” Adwan explained.
When asked how they’re processing the news of losing family members, Adwan said, “We don’t have PTSD. We have ongoing trauma from this occupation… So it’s really when we start processing is when this whole nightmare is over.”
The couple is not only mourning the loss of their family members but worried about what will happen next. Many other family members were also injured in the attack.
Adwan added, “We know the horrors that were committed in the Holocaust, for example. And people said, ‘Never again.’ And never again means never again to anyone. Not only Jews, not only Christians… but to anybody.”
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A criminal complaint alleges the suspect was driving nearly 100 mph at the time of the crash.
MINNEAPOLIS — Criminal charges have been filed against a St. Paul man in connection with a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday night in Minneapolis that left one person dead and several others injured.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said Talon Covie-Carderell Walker, 29, is now charged with one count of criminal vehicular homicide.
According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, prosecutors believe Walker was driving a Chevy Avalanche pickup truck at high speeds when he started a chain-reaction crash on the I-94 exit to Dunwoody Boulevard on Wednesday evening. A total of seven vehicles were involved.
The State Patrol said Natalie Gubbay, 26, who was driving one of the other vehicles, died at the scene. Several others were hospitalized following the crash, including Walker. Two children were also among those injured.
The complaint alleges Walker was driving nearly 100 mph at the time of the crash. Investigators also said an open bottle of liquor was found in Walker’s vehicle. Results of a blood alcohol test are pending, according to the complaint, but investigators said Walker has previous driving convictions and lost his license in 2021.
Industry experts say several airlines were already waiting for deliveries of Boeing airplanes before the strike started.
MINNEAPOLIS — This week union workers who build planes for Boeing rejected a new contract deal.
64% of the 32,000 machinists voted against the deal in another major setback for the company. The strike that has halted most of Boeing’s aircraft production for over a month will continue.
The strike is further delaying deliveries for many Boeing customers who are already dealing with production delays.
It could soon have a big impact across the country, from concerns over plane safety to the cost of flying.
Hassan Shahidi with the Flight Safety Foundation says many airlines were already waiting for Boeing airplanes before the strike started.
“Prior to the strike there were already challenges,” Shahidi says. “This strike is exacerbating the situation even further.”
Shahidi says some of the airlines may have aging airplanes that will have to stay in use longer than the companies had planned for, but he argues that is a minor issue and he is not worried about passenger safety.
“All aircraft that are flying are certified by the FAA, are airworthy and safe,” Shahidi says.
He argues a much larger issue is how the strike will impact the airline industry’s plans to grow in the coming years.
He says most of the orders for new Boeing airplanes are from airlines that are expanding to meet passenger demand.
“To have other companies trying to come in and meet that gap is going to be challenging in terms of both supplies, labor and processes that are going to be needed to produce the highest quality of airplanes,” Shahidi says.
According to Delta’s website, the airline recently ordered 100 Boeing 737’s with an option to buy 30 more.
Those planes are scheduled to be delivered sometime next year and the company says some of those airplanes will be deployed to MSP.
KARE 11 reached out to Delta to see if the Boeing strike could affect the delivery of those planes, and whether the strike could impact Delta’s ability to add new flights in the coming years, but we haven’t heard back from the company at this time.
Sun Country says their entire fleet is made up of 43 Boeing airplanes.
A company spokesperson says all of Sun Country’s airplanes are “mid-life aircraft” meaning they are purchased used from other companies.
This spokesperson says this unique business model will insulate Sun Country from the impacts of the Boeing strike, and the company won’t see a shortage of airplanes anytime soon.
KARE 11 also reached out to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport to see if the airport and local travelers will see any impacts of the Boeing strike.
An MSP spokesperson sent KARE-11 the following statement:
“We do not anticipate any immediate impacts at MSP from the Boeing strike. While a strike could push back delivery of aircraft to airlines and lead to future schedule adjustments by those airlines, any impacts would not be expected to affect MSP any more than other airports across the country.”
The victim’s wife identified their neighbor as the likely suspect following ongoing disputes.
MINNEAPOLIS — A shooting that followed months of alleged harassment from one neighbor to another has escalated to a public sparring session between the Minneapolis Police Department and City Council.
According to court documents, MPD was called to a hospital in the city for reports of a gunshot victim on Oct. 23. Upon arrival, the officers learned a man, identified as Davis Maturi, had been shot and was transported to the hospital from his home on Grand Avenue in Minneapolis.
The criminal complaint in the case said Maturi’s wife told officers that their neighbor, identified as 54-year-old John Sawchak, “almost certainly” was the person who shot her husband, alleging that Sawchak had harassed and threatened the couple for months.
Mrs. Maturi allegedly told officers that her husband was pruning a tree near their property line on that day.
“Touch my tree again and I’ll kill you,” the suspect allegedly told the victim, according to the complaint.
The charging documents lists seven prior police records of incidents between the neighbors before the October shooting, including several allegations of threats and racism by Sawchak against Maturi.
Maturi remains hospitalized with a fractured spine. Sawchak is not currently in police custody.
A letter from ranking members of the Minneapolis City Council to Mayor Jacob Frey shows anger and blame being directed at the MPD for allegedly failing to act on Maturi’s numerous complaints against Sawchak before the shooting, and failing to arrest him immediately after the shooting.
“MPD still has not arrested the suspect despite charges from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for Attempted Murder, 1st Degree Assault, Stalking, and Harassment and a request from the HCAO for a warrant with $1 million bail. MPD told the HCAO they do not intend to execute the warrant ‘for reasons of officer safety,’” said the letter from the Minneapolis City Council.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara scheduled a news conference on Friday afternoon to respond to the council’s accusations.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office confirmed Friday that it filed charges against Sawchak.
“After Mr. Sawchak shot Mr. Moturi on Oct. 23, the case was submitted to our office on Oct. 24. We immediately charged Mr. Sawchak with attempted murder, first-degree assault, and felony harassment and stalking, enhanced for racial bias,” said a statement from the office.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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