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Naim Jama

Case from Minneapolis, MN dated Aug 28, 2011

Victim Details

Naim Jama

March 28, 2022

Male

African-American / Black

Minneapolis

MN

2011-08-28

2011-08-28

23

Naim

Jama

06/21/2026


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In the pre-dawn hours of August 28, 2011, Naim Bashir Jama, a 23-year-old African-American man of Somali descent, was visiting Minneapolis from his home in Canal Winchester, Ohio. He and four friends had just left the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center after evening prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. They were walking to a nearby store to get something to eat before the day's fasting would begin.

As the group walked in an alley in the 2700 block of 13th Avenue South, they were con ...
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    I've been following the case of Naim Jama's tragic murder, and it strikes me how little progress see... ...Read More
    05/23/2024
    I can't stop thinking about the impact of community solidarity in cases like Naim Jama's. The Somali... ...Read More
    06/18/2023
    I've been thinking about how utterly senseless it is that Naim Jama's life was cut short like this. ... ...Read More
    02/01/2023
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