On the night of March 1, 2019, in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, 17-year-old Abdiwasa Mohamed Farah was fatally shot while seated in a car behind the Red Sea restaurant. Farah, a Black/African American male, and five others had driven there to buy marijuana; two occupants had gone to the front of the restaurant for the transaction when another car pulled up behind them just before midnight.

Two armed men, later identified as 21-year-old Abdilahi Muse Ibrahim and 21-year-old Omar Nur Hassan, exited that car, walked to the vehicle where Farah and two others were sitting in the back, and opened fire. Farah was struck nine times, with two gunshot wounds to the head and seven to the back. A second passenger was shot multiple times and was left paralyzed; a third person suffered non-critical injuries.

Investigators linked the attack to a pattern of gang-related violence in the Twin Cities’ Somali community. Arrest warrants were issued April 10, 2019; Ibrahim was taken into custody in Texas on May 9, and Hassan was located in Kenya and arrested by U.S. Marshals in July 2019. Abdilahi Ibrahim later pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder and received a 27½-year sentence; Omar Hassan was found guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and attempted premeditated first-degree murder and received a mandatory life sentence.

If anyone knew Abdiwasa, was present that night, or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.