Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national who allegedly shot a Chicago Jewish man, has died after Cook County sheriff’s office staff found him unresponsive in his jail cell.
The staff found Abdallahi in his cell at 3:30 PM on Saturday “after an apparent suicide by hanging.”
The staff tried to revive Abdallahi, and an ambulance took him to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Doctors pronounced Abdallahi dead.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office will conduct an autopsy.
The sheriff’s office said Abdallahi showed no signs of being a suicide risk. Authorities also found no signs of foul play.
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 faced 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.”
Chicago 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.”
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