In the early morning of February 28, 2021, 29-year-old Shamso Mohamed Gedi-Abdi, a Black woman from St. Paul, was found lying face down on Logan Avenue North in Minneapolis after a reported shooting at about 6:22 a.m. She was taken to a nearby hospital and died a few hours later from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Surveillance video showed Gedi-Abdi approach a vehicle that had pulled up to the curb. A man later identified as 40-year-old Tyrone Maddox of Minneapolis exited the passenger seat; after a brief interaction behind the vehicle, Gedi-Abdi fell as Maddox fled in the same car.

He admitted to investigators he had shot Gedi-Abdi, said he had been intoxicated and claimed the shooting was not intentional, and alleged prior animosity over about $400 and that he had sold her crack cocaine. Maddox, a convicted felon prohibited from possessing firearms, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder; in June 2021 he pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder under a plea agreement that dismissed other charges and agreed to a 20-year sentence for his role in Gedi-Abdi’s death.

Did anyone who knew Shamso or saw the area that morning notice anything before the shooting?