Ahmed Elsaied, 31, was found in his 13th-floor apartment on the 1000 block of South Marquette Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on the evening of August 7, 2022, with a gunshot wound to the head. First responders took him to a nearby hospital, but he died about 45 minutes later; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

A man who had been staying with Elsaied, 21-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Said Zaher, initially told police that a masked intruder had fled and that he had picked up the gun and thrown it off the balcony. A witness contradicted that account, reporting hearing a gunshot and screams, then seeing Zaher on the balcony saying no, no, no before throwing a firearm onto the roof of the adjacent WCCO-TV building. Zaher later said he and Elsaied had been handling Elsaied’s handgun and that the weapon discharged while Zaher was trying to pull the slide back, striking Elsaied in the head; police found Zaher in the lobby with blood on his hands and clothing.

If anyone knew Ahmed Elsaied, his routine, or saw activity at the South Marquette Avenue building on August 7, 2022, please share what was observed.