In the late summer of 2019, the tranquility of the small town of Leeds, Maine, was broken by a grim discovery. On August 31st, the body of 31-year-old Nadi Hagi Mohamed, a Black/African American man, was found along a road. An autopsy would later confirm that he had been shot to death, and authorities immediately deemed his death suspicious, launching a homicide investigation. Mohamed had been a recent transplant to Maine, having moved to the Lewiston-Auburn area from Minnesota.
His past included a recent arrest on cocaine charges in his former home state.
Maine State Police took the lead in the investigation, working to piece together the events that led to Mohamed's violent end. They publicly announced that they were treating the case as a homicide and began the arduous process of interviewing individuals who had been in contact with him in the weeks leading up to his death. His body was positively identified through fingerprints, and his family in Minnesota was notified of the tragedy.
Despite the initial flurry of investigative activity and the public classification of his death as a homicide, the case has grown cold. In the years that have passed since Nadi Hagi Mohamed's body was discovered, there have been no public announcements regarding any arrests made in connection with his murder. No suspects have been officially named, leaving a painful void for his loved ones and a lingering mystery in the community. The investigation into his death remains open, one of several unsolved homicides in the state.
