Mayhem erupted at a south Minneapolis high school Thursday evening during a planned Somali Muslim cultural event and performance that resulted in fights, a stabbing, and shots fired.
Alpha News (h/t Nita) According to dispatch audio at the time, one person was reportedly stabbed around 7:45 p.m. during a fight involving about 50 people Muslims at Washburn High School located at 201 West 49th Street.
As police arrived to respond to the fight, an officer called out over the air that shots had been fired, and a city-wide officer help call was toned by the dispatcher. Several squads responded from across the city as well as state troopers, Hennepin County deputies, and officers from Edina and Richfield police departments.
The school was hosting a Somali Culture Night performance in the auditorium that was being held from 6 to 8:30 p.m., according to a prior post by the school on YouTube.
Copies of videos reportedly from inside the auditorium during the melee were subsequently sent to Crime Watch. Two videos showing different perspectives of the same incident appear to show a male dressed in a black top and red pants wielding an object in a stabbing motion toward others in the auditorium. The male appears to stab another male in the back during the melee.
2/ A second angle of the melee inside the auditorium. What we know: One stabbing victim was transported to the hospital, another w/head injury. Police saw shots being fired as they responded. Two suspects were taken into custody and a gun with a 50-round drum mag was recovered. pic.twitter.com/fMiguhFYoG
— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) May 26, 2023
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara held a press conference following the series of eventsduring which he confirmed that an officer responding to the fight had heard gunfire near Busch Terrace and Pleasant Avenue. At least three spent shell casings were later found by police at that location. Chief O’Hara said the officer was unsure whether shots were being directed at him but engaged in a foot chase after the suspect along with other officers.
Chief O’Hara said that a 16-year-old male was eventually arrested in connection to the shots fired, and a Glock handgun with a 50-round drum magazine was recovered by police. A second 17-year-old suspect who was running with the suspect was also detained, he said.
One of the suspects was described as having a star on their clothing. This is reportedly the shooter.
The shooter was reportedly taken into custody.
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— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) May 26, 2023
At the time of the press conference, the chief said he believed that a third suspect wanted in connection to the stabbing was not in custody and was possibly still at large. Dispatch audio at the time indicated that one of the suspects detained was wearing a black top and red pants with stripes and that a pocketknife had been recovered by police.
Chief O’Hara said that a 16-year-old male had sustained a non-life-threatening stab wound in the initial incident inside the auditorium.
A photo was later submitted to Crime Watch showing a male in a black t-shirt and red pants being detained by police, which appeared to match the clothing worn by the person from the videos in the auditorium who appeared to be wielding a weapon in a stabbing motion. It remained unclear whether that person was subsequently identified as the stabbing suspect.
Washburn incident: This appears to be black/red guy who was detained and who appears to be in identical clothes to the person who appears inside the auditorium and appears to be weilding an object that left a hole in the back of the other person.
Police said the stabber wasn’t in… pic.twitter.com/gV0PnlEN14— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) May 26, 2023
Washburn High School posted a statement on their website on Friday addressing the incident in which they confirmed that one person was stabbed in the auditorium after a fight broke out, and another person was injured when the fight continued outside.
They also said that both the stabbing suspect and the shots fired suspect had been arrested. Information was not able to be immediately obtained to confirm whether one of the two suspects initially detained turned out to be the stabbing suspect.
The school noted that neither the two people injured nor the two suspects were Washburn High School students. No information was provided on the suspects or injured parties and their connection to the school or why they were at the location.
There had been several reports earlier in the afternoon Thursday of juveniles fighting and causing problems along Nicollet Avenue near the high school, according to dispatch audio. Dispatch aired to police at about 3:35 p.m. that there were reports of 30 to 50 juveniles fighting in the street near 46th and Nicollet Avenue. One 911 caller said they thought some parties had guns. Around 4:24 p.m., the dispatcher aired another report of a group of male teens with bats trying to break down a door on the 4400 block of Nicollet Avenue, as well as another report of about 20 teens fighting near 45th and Nicollet Avenue. One teen in the fighting incident was reported to have a knife.
— Dr. Interracial 🇺🇸 (@sandyleevincent) May 27, 2023
Who’s up for wild partying with Ghulam at Lido Beach, Mogadishu? It’s very popular with adventure tourists.
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I did the Math. Apparently there’s only been THREE suicide attacks at Lido in past seven years killing just 31 people.
That’s quite a low number for Somalia.
If you don’t get killed, you can still have a lot fun getting mugged, robbed, raped, and stabbed. Guaranteed to grab a selfie with real PIRATES.
That’s quite a beautiful beach though. Come join Ghulam for the best VACATION in your life.
When are you going? I have to book a flight.
So my family and I visited Minnesota a little while back (I had also lived there as a child after my family immigrated from India).
It was very strange walking through the Mall of America, it was like everyone was either a Swede or a Somali.
I can’t think of two groups of people who could be more different, the Somalis just came across as so completely foreign in every way.
Apart from the fact that they looked nothing like the native Minnesotans physically (I am not a racist, just living in reality), their women were draped from head to toe in black abayas… It was almost like we were somewhere in East Africa or the Middle East rather than in the United States. If I were to take a photo and you didn’t notice some of the restaurant or store names on the signs in the background, you could be mistaken for assuming these were a bunch of Somali migrants in a mall in Riyadh or Dubai. Whatever their citizenship papers might say, these people are Somalis, not Americans. The sooner people in the West wake up to the fact that they are being totally overrun by outsiders who have absolutely no loyalty to Western civilization apart from wanting the material benefits that it provides them, the sooner we will be able to have real conversations about the future of this country and the West at large.
Being from India, you must know much better than we do about the problems Muslims cause when they infiltrate a non-Muslim country.
I am not a big fan of Hindu nationalism either (more of a South Indian regionalist ethnonat) tbh, but South Asian Muslims have really gone off the deep end since 9/11.
Every day you see more and more hijabs 😑, so much for “Modernity will moderate Islam”. The exact reverse has happened with the Arab petrodollar and the anti-Western backlash after 9/11 (imagine having a backlash against the people who were victims of your terrorism) turning people even further towards strict Islamic conservatism.
Yes, the world is upside down…just as the Marxists & Islamofascists planned it.
I’m not trying to be clever but is there or has there ever been a nation or religious group that has lived in peace alongside Muslims??
If such a place exists maybe the USA Europe could copy it
Not that I know of.
Culturally enriched at night and at knife point, no?
Minnesota has become Monkeystan. The government school building, paid for by Minnesota taxpayers, all its classrooms, chalk boards, gymnasia, lockers, swimming pool, student laboratories and athletic fields are a waste and a failure in education. It is producing sociopaths, felons and ignorami. The buildings ought to be demolished. Its absence would not bring more harm to society than what prevails there now.
Mogadishu on the Mississippi. i’m afraid we haven’t seen it all yet.
Thanks to all the traitors in government who brought this muslim trash into America and once peaceful European countries.
This is what always happens when you get that many sub-humans gathered in one spot.
At least they were honest in naming the event.
Having spent some time in that “country” I can confirm that “50 person brawls …with shooting and stabbing” ‘is’ the authentic Somali “culture”.
Throw in a few hacked off limbs and babies and pregnant women impaled on any handy sharp object and … I bet all those ex-pats would be teary eyed and homesick.
[Old Africa hands have long known the entire continent (the technical term for it) is a “faecalised environment” (everything you touch, see, eat or drink or breath is covered in powdered sh*t) … Somalia is where it all eventually settles – and that’s the ‘good’ bits of that cess-pit].
Ahh youre getting it too. This was here in europe since the nintees but since 2013 it has gotten way wose through the import the one that is going strong to this day. Dont let it bother you then it will never ever go away and all you can do is to keep out of the way of this trash. Germany has 57 rapes a day and as many knife and gun parties so why worry all is good in wokestan or germanistan. This is comming your way and your biden and friends will make sure that you get the feeling.
Somali culture night…the violence is different from…?
Blacks & Muslims, two of the most violent demographics in existence. Why would anyone expect anything else?
agree!
Let ’em exterminate each other.
Africans being Africans. This is not news, this is normal for Africans which is why Caucasians won’t want Africans hanging around them.