Highway 100 shooting stemmed from ‘Muddy’ rival gang dispute: Charges

The Brief

  • Two more men are charged for their alleged involvement in a shooting that temporarily shut down Highway 100 in St. Louis Park back in September.
  • Charging documents say the shooting victims are members of the criminal “Muddy” gang and the suspects are members of a rival gang.
  • Another suspect arrested in the shooting is believed to be associated with a gang known as “1300.”
  • The shooting is connected to a rash of retaliatory gang violence in the west metro earlier this year.

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) – Police have arrested two more men in connection to a shooting that temporarily shut down Highway 100 after a driver was shot in the ankle.

Ayub Abdirashiid Said, 19, of Coon Rapids, and Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, 20, are both charged with drive-by shooting and second-degree assault.

Investigators have tied the incident to a string of gang-related violence in the west metro that involved a shooting at high school homecoming football game, 100 shots fired during an incident in Bloomington, as well as shots fired at a basketball court near Our Lady of Grace Church.

2 more charged for Highway 100 shooting

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