Abdullahi Abdi

Death by Force

Abdullahi Awil Abdi, 18, male, Somali, spent the late afternoon of April 11, 2008 at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where a community meeting about safety had replaced the usual pickup games. He said goodbye to friends around 8 p.m. and, a little after 9, climbed into a friend's car by Cedar Avenue and 6th Street South, in an alley near the Freewheel Bike shop. A gunman fired into the car around 9:15 p.m., killing him where he sat, just three bloc ...Read More

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