On December 30, 2022, 26-year-old Jeremy Demond Ellis was found dead in a white Dodge Charger near South Sixth Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Officers responded around 9 p.m.; Ellis had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the cause of death as gunshot wounds.

Authorities say 28-year-old Idris Adbillahi Haji-Mohamed of Rochester was identified by witnesses and taken into custody soon after the shooting. Investigators recovered clothing and a firearm that Haji-Mohamed allegedly handed to a friend after changing clothes; those items were seized from a car in the apartment building garage. Haji-Mohamed reportedly told investigators he had been involved in a drug deal with Ellis and that Ellis ordered him out of the car at gunpoint before Haji-Mohamed fired several shots.

Haji-Mohamed was charged with second-degree intentional murder. He was on conditional release with an ankle bracelet for a separate September 10, 2021, shooting death in Moorhead that left 32-year-old Abdi Abdi dead. If anyone has information about Ellis, his movements that night, or witnesses to the shooting, please come forward.