Mustafa Ali, 25, was killed in a shootout on the evening of October 11, 2019, around 6:30 p.m. The shooting occurred in Minneapolis’ Hawthorne neighborhood at the intersection of 23rd and Aldrich Avenues North. Witnesses and surveillance footage place an 18-year-old, Mahad Jama Ali, in the back seat of a car that had stopped to buy drugs; Mustafa Ali walked up to the car’s back door and a shootout erupted between the two men.

Mustafa Ali was struck three times in the chest. After the shooting he was placed in a Chevrolet Impala; people in the car flagged down police about five blocks away. Officers performed first aid but Mustafa Ali had no pulse and was pronounced dead at the scene. The exchange left Mahad Ali injured; he went to Hennepin Healthcare with a gunshot wound that required emergency surgery and was later identified and arrested as the other person involved.

Authorities described the shooting as part of a violent feud between rival gangs, identifying Mustafa Ali as a high-ranking member of the Somali Outlaws and Mahad Ali as a member of the rival 1627 Boys. Mahad Ali’s mother told police her son and Mustafa had a beef that had continued for months and that she had tried to reconcile them. Does anyone have information about the feud or the events that led to the shooting?