Chicago prosecutors announced that Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national, who allegedly shot a Jewish man, researched for Jewish targets and had pro-Hamas material on his phone.
Abdallahi faces one felony count of terrorism and one felony count of a hate crime, along with “six counts of attempted first-degree murder, seven counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm at a police officer or firefighter, and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm.”
The prosecutors said Abdallahi spent days researching synagogues, mapping out addresses of potential targets on his phone.
“This was not anything but a planned attack … an attempted assassination of these people,” stated Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers. “This was a calculated plan, on a public street… and an attempted slaughter of that person and law enforcement officers.”
McCord Rogers also said that Abdallahi’s phone had over “100 ‘antisemitic and pro-Hamas’ images and videos.”
Abdallahi allegedly shot a 39-year-old man wearing a kippah in the shoulder in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood on October 26. The man was walking to the synagogue.
A woman’s security camera caught the gunman screaming, “Allahu Akbar!”
Abdallahi ran off. He then tried unjamming his gun as he walked back toward the victim. When he couldn’t clear his weapon, he ran off again.
Another camera caught “Abdallahi driving a few blocks away, then parking and returning on foot to the shooting scene, walking past a woman with a baby stroller.”
Abdallahi fired at the police before he “ran down the alley, cutting through a yard, then circled back toward the ambulance as paramedics were loading the injured man.” The officers shot him numerous times before they could arrest him.
Thankfully, the Jewish man survived.
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