Mall attacker was recent college student, security guard

A man in a private secu. Authorities are treating Saturday’s stabbings at Crossroads Mall, as a possible act of terrorism, in part because an I.

(St. Cloud Times/Jason Wachter via AP).

(Jason Wachter/St. Cloud Times via AP).

The attack in St. Cloud, a city of about 65,000 people about 65 miles (104 km) from Minneapolis, began shortly after an explosion in a crowded New York City neighborhood injured 29 people.

Inside the building where the Adans lived, a neighbor said the younger Adan sometimes wore a security guard uniform. He was said to be an honor student in high school. Officers had contact with him three times in the past, but for minor traffic violations.

Mordal and Bohnenkamp were both attacked by a man, suspected of being motivated by global terror, who stabbed several people late Saturday, Sept. 17 before an off-duty police officer fatally shot the attacker at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minn.

St. Cloud Police say a suspect stabbed 9 people throughout the mall before an off-duty officer confronted him in Macy’s and shot and killed him.

A person who answered the phone at the T-Mobile store where Yusuf said Adan had ordered the phone declined to comment or take a message for his supervisor.

Adan’s family has been dumbfounded by his sudden burst of violence, as they can not find a link between him and a terrorist group.

“The news of the St. Cloud mall was shocking to the friends, relatives and community of the deceased”. “What was his motivation?”

Adan allegedly made a reference to Allah and asked whether at least one shopper were Muslim before attacking, Anderson said.

Roughly 12 hours after the stabbings, a news agency said to speak for ISIL went to Twitter to claim credit for the mall violence.

Investigators are poring through witness and victim accounts, video footage and the 20-year-old’s electronic devices to piece it together what sparked the attack. The knife hit Schliep’s skull, and just missed his brain.

The Adan family is originally from Somalia, but Adan’s father told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that his son was born in Kenya and had been in the United States since the age of five. “He was employed”, Alimad told the newspaper.

A spokesman for the family, Abdi Wahid Osman, read from a statement expressing condolences for the injured and anyone else who was impacted.

Other family members said Dahir Adan was beginning his third year as a student at St. Cloud State University.

“We are the victims of those terrorist groups”, he said.

“He was screaming at us” to get out, Weires said.

The group Yussuf founded, #UniteCloud, was created to try to address tensions and create better relations between Somalis and the community at large. “The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition”, the statement said.

Security experts argue that the problem with ISIS and with any radical extremist group is its influence.

Rick Thornton, special agent in charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Minnesota, told a Monday press conference that investigators would be looking at Adan’s media accounts and electronic devices – such as laptops or mobile phones – in an attempt to “peel back the onion and figure out what motivated this individual to commit the horrific act”. “Well with what happened last night is what keeps me up at night”, said St. Cloud mayor Dave Kleis. He said Adan seemed happy when left the home, which was the last time his parents saw him. If anyone was going to get Adan, it was probably Falconer. If Saturday’s stabbings are ultimately deemed a terrorist act, it would be the first carried out by a Somali on USA soil, said Karen Greenburg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. At this point, the White House saw no connection between this attacks and the ones in NY and New Jersey. Since 2014, nine Somali-Americans from Minnesota have been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty in a plot to join the Islamic State by traveling to Syria.

“It’s going to be tough times”.