Minneapolis gang killing season started balo

[Moguul21]

Police found a man early Monday morning shot to death inside a car in the popular eat street area of Minneapolis.

Police say they got a 911 call around 1:00 a.m. that there had been a shooting in the parking lot of Gangchen Bar and Restaurant. The lot sits near Nicollet and Groveland Avenues. That's where police say they found the man's body inside a blue Chevy Lumina.

5 Eyewitness News spoke to a woman who says she was working inside Gangchen Bar and Restaurant when the shooting occurred. She said the victim was a young Somali man and there were as many as four, or five people in the car when the shooting happened.

Police have made no arrests, and the victim has not yet been identified.

[Moguul21]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Police are investigating a homicide after a man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in Minneapolis.

Authorities say shortly after 1 a.m. Monday someone shot a man who was inside a vehicle in a parking lot near the intersection of Groveland and Nicollet avenues.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this point it is a homicide investigation," said Sgt. William Palmer. "We have our homicide team here on the scene along with our evidence crew. We don't have any suspects in custody at this point."

Somali Justice Advocacy Center identifies the young man killed as 23-year-old Ali Yasin Ismail.

Ismail came to the United States from Somalia in 1999. His family is expected to release a statement later today.

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call the Minneapolis Police TIPS Line at 612-692-TIPS (8477).

[AbdiWahab252]

[Advo]

all the gangsters are finishing each other off miyaa?

RIP to the guy.

[S-D-M]

It is actually great news for the Somali community. It should be called "the NACAS eliminating NACAS" season. Its WIN WIN situation.

One nacs dies another goes to jail, then we will have clean, educated and progressive community.

[Moguul21]

5 guys in Chevy Lumina at 1 o'clock in the morning this could be only gang related shooting.

There has been gang war between midgaan with attitude and habargidir somali mafia for while now but I heard this guy is MJ so I wonder why he was shot?

City of minneapolis is known for talking mali community so we will find out pretty soon.

[AbdiWahab252]

[Moguul21]

The city of Minneapolis needs to target more resources toward helping Somali youth avoid poverty, homelessness, truancy and criminal activity, according to a report released Thursday by the city's civil rights department. The report expressed concern about the presence of organized Somali youth gangs and offered some recommendations on how to stop their spread.

Minneapolis, Minn. — The city commissioned the study after some Somali teenagers were arrested for a series of robberies in the Uptown area of Minneapolis in 2005. Then-Civil Rights Department Director Jayne Khalifa responded to strong community reaction to the crimes, by initiating the study. The report's author, consultant Shukri Adan presented her findings to members of the city council.

Adan says at first it was thought the Somali youth were involved in loosely organized groups of "troublemakers". However, Adan says as these young people ended up in jail, they met established gang members and learned from them how to organize.

"They're very sophisticated and they've adapted some of that into the Somali gang structure. But for the Somali gangs that I've identified, they were specifically Somalis and all their membership were Somalis, even though they had associations with other gangs."

The report names four Somali gangs: The Rough Tough Somalis, the Hot Boyz Gang Somali Mafia and MWA midgaan with attitude. Their members are suspected of committing armed robbery and using drugs. The report also states that while Somali gangs tend not to have formal leadership, they are becoming more sophisticated. In some cases, gang members bailed their colleagues out of jail and collaborated with other gangs.

The report says gang activity is relatively small. Statistics from the Minnesota Gang Strike Force identifies 52 Somali gang members - less than one percent of all known gang members in Minnesota.

The refugee experience is partially to blame for the gangs, according to the report. Fractured family structures and post traumatic stress disorder have accompanied many of these young people from refugee camps to Minnesota. And the report's authors say, many Somalis are reluctant to seek out medical attention.

Shukri Adan says the city needs to fund more youth outreach workers in order to convince young people to get help.

"Community outreach is important step in this process, because those youth workers would be able to work with those youngsters on a daily basis. And be able to identify, who is at risk, who is in the gang and how we can rehabilitate them and how we can bring them back. And the ones that were being targeted, how can we do some preventative measures," she said

Adan says three part time youth outreach workers cover the Cedar Riverside area. She says more than 3000 Somali youth live in that part of town.

[The Nomad]

'Midgaan With Attitude'

[AbdiWahab252]

'Midgaan With Attitude'

Nomad,

Becareful before them MWA Roll Up on ya They got SNET members too

[MrPrestige]

MWA i wonder if those are the guy's who butcher Mj's on daily basic in Minnepolis.

[Moguul21]

The Minnesota Gang Strike Force currently has 520 individuals identified as connected with a Somali gang, which is less than ten percent of the 11,773 gang members statewide. Although the crime activity is small, according to the report, these gangs are becoming more sophisticated at networking and collaborating.

Members work together to bail each other out of jail and they support and visit one another during incarcerations. By visiting, they can also pass information in and out of the prison system.

The report also states that the younger gang members are asked to take responsibility for crimes they did not commit as a show of loyalty to the gang. They are also asked to do this because they are more likely to be sent to juvenile detention centers for less time.

[AbdiWahab252]

[Twisted_Logic]

It is actually great news for the Somali community. It should be called "the NACAS eliminating NACAS" season. Its WIN WIN situation.

One nacs dies another goes to jail, then we will have clean, educated and progressive community.

But occasionally, good people also die in these kind of attacks.

[AbdiWahab252]