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Shooting death followed Minneapolis homeless encampment fight homeless encampment
Charges were filed against a 37-year-old man who allegedly shot another man after a fight at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis.
Ahmed Ali Abdi, 37, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree intentional murder and illegal gun possession in connection with the shooting of JaBraun Garron Hole, 33, of Minneapolis,on Aug. 19 in the 3300 block of S. 3rd Avenue.
Abdi, of Minneapolis, remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail ahead of a court appearance on Monday. Court records do not list an attorney for him.
According to the criminal complaint:
Police were alerted to a shooting shortly after 5 p.m. after a fight broke out in front of an encampment and then moved down the street.
Hole was shot once in the torso. He was taken by emergency responders to HCMC, where he died that same day.
Officers found video that showed multiple men fighting about 5 p.m. in front of the encampment, then three men chased Hole to the sidewalk at the corner of E. 33rd Street and S. 3rd Avenue.
One of the men grabbed Hole, while others attacked him and chased him back toward the encampment. Abdi was nearby watching Hole and his pursuers.
LAFAYETTE, Wis. — About 25 children and adults were injured Wednesday when a wagon carrying them overturned at a western Wisconsin apple orchard.
The children, parents and chaperones were on a field trip to the orchard in Lafayette when one of two wagons being pulled by a tractor turned sideways and rolled over, Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes told reporters. Hakes said the tractor was traveling at a low speed when the wagon rolled over while going downhill.
Three people suffered critical injuries, while injuries to five others were considered serious. Authorities didn’t say how many of the injured were children.
The elementary school-age children attend a school in Eau Claire. Lafayette is northeast of Eau Claire.
After about five minutes and several warnings that students participating in the protest would be suspended,, the protesters exited Northrop and Cunningham continued her speech. They later gathered outside on the mall afterwards to shout, “Cunningham, you will see, Palestine will be free.”
Cunningham recounted the story of Norman Borlaug, the U alumnus and agronomist whose research in wheat saved millions from starvation, and said she would prioritize keeping a college education affordable for students.
Cunningham actually took over presidential duties on July 1, replacing Interim President Jeff Ettinger. She oversees a budget of more than $4 billion to run the university’s five campuses, which enrolled more than 68,000 students and employed 27,000 people during the last academic year.
She was chosen for the job last winter over two other candidates: Laura Bloomberg, president of Cleveland State University and former dean of the U’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and James Holloway, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico. She is the U’s second woman president, following Joan Gabel who held the office from 2019 to 2023.
Cunningham will be paid more than $1 million per year — about $975,000 in base pay and an additional $120,000 in retirement contributions. The compensation puts her in the top quarter of Big Ten university presidents.
Sgt. Gordon Blackey, once a security guard to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, allegedly admitted to tracking the woman’s movements in her vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
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