A person now going through hate crime fees after shooting an Orthodox Jewish man and firing on police and paramedics last month had mapped the places of a number of Chicago synagogues and Jewish faculties within the days main as much as the assault within the North Facet’s West Ridge neighborhood, prosecutors mentioned.
At a detention listening to Friday, prosecutors mentioned Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi’s cellphone information confirmed the 22-year-old had been looking for out targets for days earlier than capturing a 39-year-old man who was on his option to worship providers on Oct. 26. Amongst a number of addresses Abdallahi had mapped on his telephone was a synagogue only a block from the capturing scene.
“This was not something however a deliberate assault … an tried assassination of those individuals,” Assistant State’s Legal professional Anne McCord Rodgers mentioned. “This was a calculated plan, on a public avenue… and an tried slaughter of that particular person and legislation enforcement officers.”
Friday marked the primary in-court look for Abdallahi, who was hospitalized with a number of gunshot wounds after a shootout with police who arrived on the capturing scene. Abdallahi walked into the listening to on the Leighton Prison Courthouse slowly, shuffling as he pushed a walker in entrance of him on his option to a seat beside his public defender.
Abdallahi, an immigrant from Mauritania, had lived within the U.S. for “not less than two years” and labored at an Amazon warehouse, Assistant Public Defender Josh Thigpen mentioned. Choose Susana Ortiz ordered Abdallahi detained on a number of counts of tried homicide, and hate crime and terrorism fees.
McCord Rodgers mentioned the sufferer, carrying a standard Jewish kippah and prayer scarf as he walked to synagogue, didn’t see Abdallahi because the gunman walked behind him within the 2900 block of West Farwell. The person heard the gunshot and felt the bullet hit his shoulder, however realized he had been shot solely after noticing a gap in his jacket the place the bullet exited, McCord mentioned.
A surveillance digicam confirmed Abdallahi fireplace on the man, run off, then attempt to clear his apparently jammed semi-automatic pistol whereas strolling again towards the sufferer, earlier than once more working off, McCord Rodgers mentioned.
Moments after the capturing, one other digicam captured Abdallahi driving a couple of blocks away, then parking and returning on foot to the capturing scene, strolling previous a lady with a child stroller, she added.
From an alley, Abdallahi fired twice within the course of 4 law enforcement officials trying to find proof and a pair of paramedics tending to the wounded man, McCord Rodgers mentioned. Abdallahi ran down the alley, slicing by means of a yard, then circled again towards the ambulance as paramedics had been loading the injured man. Abdallahi once more shot on the ambulance, hitting it twice as a fifth police officer returned fireplace.
Abdallahi once more ran down the alley, slicing by means of a entrance yard and pausing to fireplace a shot at a police officer, McCord Rodgers mentioned. Abdallahi took cowl, then emerged on Washtenaw Avenue and exchanged gunfire with police. Abdallahi was shot and fell to the bottom, however rose once more to fireplace on the police earlier than collapsing on the sidewalk.
Abdallahi’s telephone was discovered inside his automotive, and information on the system confirmed had saved the places of a close-by synagogue on Oct. 20 and Oct. 24. On Oct. 22 and 23, he had saved the placement of one other synagogue in Hyde Park. Two weeks earlier than the capturing, his Google search historical past confirmed he had appeared up “Jewish Group heart” and a gun retailer in suburban Lyons. McCord Rodgers mentioned. The telephone additionally had greater than 100 “antisemitic and pro-Hamas” pictures and movies, McCord Rodgers mentioned.
