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Police Searching For Suspect In Fatal Mpls Shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The family of a recent murder victim is asking for the public's help to find his killer.

Guled Hashi Mohamed, 26 of Burnsville, was gunned down Sunday night while he sat in a car outside a south Minneapolis restaurant at Nicollet and Groveland. Police later found him in his car at 22nd Street and Lyndale Avenue South, outside a Super America gas station with gunshot wounds to his head. Mohamed died on Monday as a result of injuries sustained in the shooting.

Family and friends of Mohamed held a vigil for him Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis. His friends said he was a young father, husband and graduate of Minnesota State University-Moorhead. He had recently been attending classes at St. Cloud State University.

"He was a young man looking forward to his life. He had a wife. He had a daughter. He had another day baby coming. His life was cut short," said Hassan Samantar, a close family friend. "He was gathering himself to move to St. Cloud to attend St. Cloud University. He ended up with a bullet, in a street corner."

Guled's father, Hashi Mohamed, tried to speak through a translator, but was too emotional to go on.

"My son was brought here at a young age, he came here to have an opportunity, he didn't come here to die," said Hashi Mohamed.

Minneapolis Police are still searching for suspects in the case. Guled Mohamed was one of six people shot between Sunday night and Monday morning in the Twin Cities.

Lt. Richard Zimmerman, head of the Minneapolis Homicide unit, said he had a special message for the young men in the crowd, Guled's close friends.

"I know you are angry, I know you want retribution, and mostly you want justice, help us get justice, help us do it the correct way," said Lt. Zimmerman.

"I know the Somalis sometimes don't come forward and tell the truth," said Hawa Aden, Mohamed's mother, through a translator. "We ask you to help us, to find justice. He was the victim of someone who was confused."

Aden said her son was never affiliated with any violence or gangs. She said he worked as a social worker in the Somali community, with ambitions of someday returning to Somalia to help displaced refugees.

Homicide detectives said they are looking for witnesses of the shooting and ask anyone with information to call police at (612) 692-TIPS (8477). Tips can remain anonymous.

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