Minneapolis, MN
4th Person Dies In Shooting That Killed MPLS Officer Jamal Mitchell
MINNEAPOLIS — A fourth person has died in the May 30 shooting on Blaisdell Avenue that took the life of Minneapolis Police Officer Jamal Mitchell.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Sunday that Mohamed Aden, 36 of Columbia Heights died on Friday, June 7 of complications from multiple gunshot wounds.
Aden was one of the two people shot inside an apartment by 35-year-old Mustafa Mohamed, authorities said. The other person — Osman Said Jimale, 32 — died in the apartment.
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At about 5:15 p.m. on May 30, police received a call of two people shot inside an apartment complex on the 2200 block of Blaisdell Avenue South in the south Minneapolis neighborhood of Whittier.
Officer Mitchell was about two blocks from the complex when he noticed someone injured.
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Mitchell approached to help, but Mustafa pulled a gun and shot Mitchell several times in an “ambush,” police said.
Another officer arrived and exchanged gunfire with Mustafa, who was shot dead. The officer suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
When other officers searched the apartment complex two blocks away, they found the two people inside who had been shot, including Jimale, who was dead. The other person — Aden — was hospitalized in critical condition but later died.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is working with Minneapolis police investigators to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting deaths.
A memorial service for Mitchell is scheduled to take place Tuesday morning at Maple Grove Senior High School.
The shooting comes about three months after two officers and a firefighter-paramedic in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville were killed while responding to a sexual assault call inside a home.
Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.
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Minneapolis, MN
Federal lawsuit raises questions about culture at prior job of Minneapolis mayor’s nominee for fire chief
A federal lawsuit raises questions about the culture at a prior job of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s nominee for fire chief.
In those court documents, there are allegations of harassment and discrimination in an East Coast fire department during Reginald Freeman’s time there as chief.
The city is not commenting on this lawsuit, saying it was filed several years ago, doesn’t mention Freeman and concerns allegations involving a different city and state.
Mayor Frey had high praise for Freeman as he announced him as his choice for the chief’s position in May.
Frey nominates Reginald Freeman to be next Minneapolis fire chief
“The kind of leadership that he brings to the table is second to none,” the mayor declared at the time.
But a 2022 lawsuit raises questions about Freeman’s time as fire chief in Hartford, Connecticut.
“It should always be an open process,” says Paul Ostrow, a former Minneapolis City Council president. “It should always be one where the legislative body has the information they need to properly vet the executive’s appointment.”
Two female firefighters filed that federal lawsuit against the City of Hartford, saying they were “harassed and discriminated against by their employer because of their sex and/or race.”
The document also says, “nearly every female who rose to the ranks of lieutenant or higher either filed an internal complaint of harassment and discrimination — or tragically, surrendered their promotion in order to avoid the hostility of the executive-level fire chiefs.”
It doesn’t mention Freeman specifically or accuse him of any wrongdoing.
But the lawsuit includes allegations of mistreatment while he was leading the department between 2016 and 2021.
We asked Ostrow: “Is it reasonable to say that the chief, the fire chief, would have known about this?”
“I think it’s reasonable to conclude that as chief, he would know about these things,” he says. “Certainly, that he should have known about these things.”
Ostrow calls the allegations “troubling.”
The nomination is now set for a public hearing next week.
We wondered if all of this should be part of the discussion.
“It should be,” Ostrow says. “The most important question I would ask, number one: ‘Was this disclosed to the mayor or the search team?’”
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS spoke with the mayor’s office late Wednesday night.
They told us again they’re not commenting on the lawsuit.
We’re still working to get a comment from Freeman himself.
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