Chicago hate crime shooting suspect researched Jewish targets, had pro-Hamas material on his phone: prosecutor

An amerciable migrant accused of shooting an Orthodox Jewish man multiple times arsenic helium made his mode to a Chicago Synagogue past period utilized his cellphone to scour for synagogues and Jewish assemblage centers successful the country soon earlier the attack, according to Fox 32 Chicago. His compartment telephone besides contained much than 100 "antisemitic and pro-Hamas" images and videos, according to the Chicago Sun Times citing police. 

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national, has been deed with hatred transgression and terrorism charges for the Oct. 26 onslaught successful which helium is accused of shooting a 39-year-old Jewish antheral who was wearing a kippah portion walking to his synagogue successful Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. The unfortunate was struck successful the shoulder.

Abdallahi, police said, was identified little than 30 minutes aft the shooting, astatine which constituent helium allegedly changeable astatine responders earlier constabulary "returned fire, striking the offender." Abdallahi was hospitalized with aggregate gunshot wounds. No members of the police or occurrence departments were injured.

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Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi is accused of shooting a Jewish antheral who was connected his mode to a synagogue. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

At a detention proceeding Friday, prosecutors said Abdallahi’s cellphone information showed the fishy had been seeking retired targets for days earlier shooting.

Among respective addresses Abdallahi had mapped connected his telephone was a synagogue conscionable a artifact from the shooting country and different synagogue successful Hyde Park. Two weeks earlier the shooting, his Google hunt past showed helium had looked up "Jewish Community center" and a weapon store successful suburban Lyons, prosecutors said. 

"This was not thing but a planned onslaught … an attempted assassination of these people," Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers said, per the Chicago Sun Times. "This was a calculated plan, connected a nationalist street... and an attempted slaughter of that idiosyncratic and instrumentality enforcement officers."

A surveillance camera showed Abdallahi occurrence astatine the man, tally off, past effort to wide his seemingly jammed semi-automatic pistol portion walking backmost toward the victim, earlier again moving off, McCord Rodgers said, per the Chicago Sun Times.

Abdallahi past drove a fewer blocks away, parked, and returned connected ft to the shooting scene, walking past a pistillate with a babe stroller, she added.

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The victim, described by the Jewish United Fund arsenic a "Jewish assemblage member," reportedly was changeable successful the enarthrosis successful Chicago. (Fox32 Chicago)

He past fired doubly successful the absorption of 4 constabulary officers searching for grounds and a brace of paramedics tending to the wounded man, McCord Rodgers said. 

Abdallahi past ran down an alley, chopped done a gait and past circled backmost toward the ambulance arsenic paramedics were loading the injured man. Abdallahi again changeable astatine the ambulance, hitting it doubly arsenic a 5th constabulary serviceman returned fire.

He past fled and ran done a beforehand yard, wherever helium paused to occurrence different changeable astatine a constabulary officer. After different speech of gunfire with police, Abdallahi was changeable and fell to the ground, but roseate again to allegedly occurrence connected the constabulary earlier collapsing connected the sidewalk, McCord Rodgers said, per the publication.

Police past searched his car and recovered Abdallahi’s compartment phone, which revealed the people locations and the pro-Hamas material.

Abdallahi initially faced 14 felony counts, including six counts of attempted murder, 7 counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm astatine a constabulary serviceman oregon firefighter, and 1 number of aggravated artillery with a firearm. One felony number of coercion and 1 felony number of a hatred transgression person since been added to the charges.

Abdallahi had lived successful the U.S. for "at slightest 2 years" and worked astatine an Amazon warehouse, Assistant Public Defender Josh Thigpen said.

Four instrumentality enforcement sources archer Fox News that helium entered the U.S. illegally earlier being apprehended successful California successful March 2023 and released into the U.S.

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Police analyse the Oct. 26 shooting successful the West Ridge vicinity of Chicago, Illinois. (Fox32 Chicago)

Mauritania is simply a bulk Muslim state successful northwest Africa. The Department of Homeland Security deems amerciable immigrants from Mauritania arsenic "special involvement aliens" owed to information concerns, and they are expected to person further DHS vetting. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had initially told Fox News Digital that it had nary enactment with him. Law enforcement sources accidental that determination is simply a detainer petition connected Abdallahi — a petition that helium beryllium transferred to ICE custody successful the lawsuit of his merchandise — but that "sanctuary" policies successful Cook County, Illinois, prohibit section authorities from cooperating with it.

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin and Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.