The Brief
- New court documents allege a suspect in the Eden Prairie homecoming shooting was targeted in a Bloomington shooting days later.
- Bloomington police say a shooting targeting Abdirahman Ahmed Jama may have been retaliation for other recent shootings.
- The new details were revealed in court documents as authorities sought an extreme risk protection order that would allow authorities to seize firearms from Jama.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (FOX 9) – New court documents allege that a suspect charged in connection to the Eden Prairie homecoming shooting became the target of another shooting just days later in Bloomington where 100 rounds were fired on Harriet Avenue.
Eden Prairie and Bloomington shootings linked
What we know:
Court documents filed this week for an application for an extreme risk protection order – that would allow authorities to seize guns from Abdirahman Ahmed Jama – allege that Jama was the target of the Oct. 6 shooting on Harriet Avenue in Bloomington.
Police said about 100 rounds were fired during that incident that authorities suspected was connected to Somali gang violence. The new court documents now allege that the Bloomington shooting was likely “a retaliatory shooting due to other recent shootings.”…