On the night of February 28, 2025, 20-year-old Ibrahim Faisal Dabarani of Minneapolis was fatally wounded inside a car near the 4200 block of Central Avenue NE in Columbia Heights. He was taken by private vehicle to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale but died a few minutes after midnight. Hospital staff told police a car had dropped Dabarani off and left the scene quickly.

Initial statements to police by the vehicle’s driver, an 18-year-old, were misleading. Surveillance footage contradicted the driver’s first account; he later recanted and said that earlier the two of them had picked up 16-year-old Abdihafed Mohamed Abdirisak. According to the revised account, Abdirisak was in the back seat moving a gun from his backpack to his jacket when the firearm discharged and the single shot struck Dabarani. Police arrested Abdirisak in Minneapolis and charged him with second-degree manslaughter in Anoka County. Another man, 20-year-old Ayub Abdullahi Mohamed, was later charged with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for allegedly bringing the rifle into the vehicle.

Are there witnesses who were in the area that night or anyone with dashcam or surveillance video who can help clarify what happened?