Hate crime, terrorism charges filed in shooting of Jewish man in Chicago

The fishy accused of shooting a Jewish antheral successful Chicago, and past opening occurrence connected responding constabulary officers, has been deed with a hatred transgression complaint and a number of felony terrorism.

Sidi Mohamed Abdullahi is besides facing different 14 felony counts — including attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and attempted execution of a constabulary serviceman — successful transportation with the play unit connected the city’s Far North Side. Police said the 39-year-old unfortunate was headed toward a synagogue successful the country erstwhile Abdullahi approached him from down connected Saturday astir 9 a.m.

Without saying a word, the fishy fired disconnected respective shots, striking the unfortunate successful the shoulder, per a property merchandise from Chicago Police. He was taken to an country infirmary for attraction and has since been released.

Ald. Debra Silverstein, of the city’s 50th Ward, antecedently said the unfortunate was wearing a kippah, a accepted Jewish caput covering besides known arsenic a yarmulke, astatine the clip of the attack. She further noted the assemblage wherever the shooting occurred, West Rogers Park, has a ample Orthodox Jewish population.

The gunman past started shooting “at responding officers and paramedics aggregate times from assorted locations,” constabulary said. It prompted a gunfire speech during which Abdullahi was changeable respective times. He was taken to Ascension Saint Francis Hospital successful captious condition, constabulary said.

“We privation everybody to cognize that we volition ne'er tolerate unit that’s rooted successful hatred and bigotry,” Supt. Larry Snelling said during a property league connected Thursday.

Chicago’s apical bull besides told reporters that Abdullahi has been hospitalized since the incident, leaving authorities incapable to interrogation him. Instead, investigators person been forced to trust connected integer grounds to physique their case.

In announcing the charges, Snelling cited grounds recovered connected the suspect’s telephone that “indicated helium planned the shooting and specifically targeted radical of Jewish faith,” Snelling said.

“There indispensable beryllium capable grounds to enactment hatred crimes and coercion charges and it was important we took our clip to thoroughly analyse and corroborate that this was so a transgression of that nature,” helium added. “We volition ne'er spell retired successful public, marque statements, allegations, accusations oregon effort to bring charges without immoderate impervious of what we’re attempting to complaint idiosyncratic for.”