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MPS superintendent meet-and-greets with 2nd finalist on Wednesday

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Minneapolis, MN
Man sentenced for deadly 2024 shooting at homeless encampment

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A man was sentenced to more than 32 years behind bars for a deadly shooting at a homeless encampment in 2024.
Ahmed Abdi sentenced
What we know:
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that Ahmed Ali Abdi, 38, was sentenced to more than 32 years in prison for the deadly shooting of Jabraun Hole.
Abdi was convicted on charges of murder and possession of a firearm at trial.
What they’re saying:
In a provided statement, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “My thoughts are with Jabraun’s loved ones today. This was another instance of senseless gun violence that took a life. No sentence can bring Jabraun back, but Mr. Abdi is being held accountable for his actions.”
Deadly encampment shooting
The backstory:
Abdi was arrested after police said he opened fire following a fight at a homeless encampment along 3rd Avenue South near East 33rd Street on August 19, 2024.
The criminal complaint described Hole being chased down and attacked by a group of three men. As Hole tried to escape, police said video showed Abdi raising the gun, shooting Hole, and then putting the gun back in his waistband and calmly walking away.
Abdi fled the scene but was arrested a few weeks later at the same encampment.
The Source: This story uses a release from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, past reporting, and information from the criminal complaint against Abdi.
Minneapolis, MN
Timberwolves game 3 draws major crowds to downtown Minneapolis

A packed Target Center was howlin’ Saturday night. Fans started showing up hours before the game started decked out in team colors.
While the Timberwolves have a tough task, fans are not defeated.
“Series doesn’t start till the road team wins, so we’re still in this thing,” smiled Kaleb White.
White drove over an hour to be amongst all the Timberwolves and watch what he hopes to be a win. The team might be trailing in the series, but businesses in the area are winning big.
Inside Gluek’s Bar and Restaurant, it was shoulder to shoulder, a boost owner Dave Holcomb says is needed.
“For us we live on events, these are extremely important,” Holcomb said.
He’s expecting to nearly double what they’d normally make on Saturday night when a game is not on.
“Basically, the Olympics for us and we want to keep it going,” Holcomb said.
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Minneapolis, MN
These Minneapolis buildings resonate with baby boomers but baffle Gen Z

If it seems as if commercial architecture has been stagnant for a while, you might be right. For most of the 20th century, styles changed every 10 years or so, rolling through the big cities first, ending up on main street later.
The baby boomer generation saw the biggest changes. In the immediate postwar era, downtowns were characterized by old brick buildings with some classical details, but from the 1950s onward, everything built was modern and simplified. The boomers also were familiar with the exuberant kitsch and button-down corporate modernism of the 1950s and ’60s, the mirrored glass facades of the 1970s and the post-modern classical shapes of the 1980s.
The zoomers — a generation born between 1997 to 2012 — grew up with those styles, as well, but they weren’t there to see them new. They were the existing order, a fait accompli, just like the prewar buildings had been for the boomers. It was someone else’s streetscape. Of course, they know what the IDS Center is, but they have no memory of the sunset poking through the girders while it was under construction, or watching the excavation for the Metrodome.
So it goes with every generational shift. Nothing new there. What makes the boomers different is that the smaller details, the interesting characters, the ordinary commercial architecture of their era, are vanishing rapidly, and they’re the only ones who remember them.
Here’s a sampling of familiar streetscape characters that boomers might recall, while zoomers might find them utterly baffling.
Fotomats promised one-day service on developing film and also sold film rolls. (Star Tribune)
Ask a boomer what they were, and you’ll have a prompt answer. The outdoor kiosks were the little yellow huts, the size of toll booths, usually found in parking lots. One could drop film to be processed into photos there, and pick up the prints later. Fotomats started to appear in the late 1960s, and disappeared in the late ’80s — competition from in-store labs and the rise of digital film did them in. The buildings with oversized roofs stuck around for years, and repurposed, until the lot was reused for housing. That was the fate of the Fotomat in Dinkytown at 4th Street and 15th Avenue SE. Some were just removed because they were empty and impeded traffic.
Ask a zoomer about one, and you’ll get blank looks and shrugs.

The Weatherball issued forecasts from atop the Northwestern National Bank building and was a prominent fixture on the Minneapolis skyline. It was erected in 1949 and came down in 1982. (Randy Salas/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
The entire baby boomer generation will have to pass from this Earth before people stop lamenting the loss of the Weatherball. It stood atop the Northwestern National Bank Building from 1949 until it was toppled by fire in the great Thanksgiving Day blaze in 1982. Today, it has been gone longer than it was around.
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