On July 24, 2024, 37-year-old construction worker Franky Torres was shot in the head in a parking lot in the 900 block of 18th Street South in Moorhead, Minnesota. Police responded to a report of a shooting at about 3:20 a.m.; Torres was taken to Sanford Medical Center with a critical head injury and later died there.

Investigators identified 35-year-old Jamal Ahmed of Moorhead as a suspect. Torres and Ahmed had been with mutual acquaintances that night. The confrontation reportedly began after a female friend of Torres said she had been sexually assaulted by a man she knew as Noo-Noo, later identified as Ahmed. Torres went to confront the man he believed responsible; witnesses say an argument turned physical, Torres punched and beat Ahmed, and a man with dreadlocks, also identified as Ahmed, approached from behind and shot Torres in the head with a pistol. The firearm has not been recovered.

Ahmed was located with SWAT assistance and arrested on July 25, 2024. He was held at the Clay County Correctional Facility and charged with felony second-degree murder. Torres’s family expressed profound grief over his death. If anyone has information about that night or the shooting, please come forward.