Man gets over 12 years for 2013 murder

Man sentenced to 12 years in 2013 murder

A man was sentenced to over 12 years(153 months) in prison in connection with a homicide that occurred in Minneapolis in 2013.

Suleiman Abdulkadir Ali, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder. He was given credit for 465 days already served.

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Minneapolis police responded to a shooting at a gas station on Oct. 30, 2013, and found 26-year-old Abdirahman Hassan Haji-Ahmed dead in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle. He had been shot multiple times in the head.

A security guard said she saw a man in a multi-colored letterman-style jacket near the scene of the shooting.

Officers also found five spent .45 caliber casings inside the vehicle. There were four bullet holes in the front dashboard and one in the windshield. According to court documents, all five shots were fired from the back seat.

A torn piece of cloth, seeming to be from a letterman-style jacket, was also found next to a nearby fence.

Surveillance video from the gas station showed a man, later identified as Ali, getting out of a vehicle and going into the station 10-15 minutes before the shooting. He was wearing a letterman-style jacket, court documents state.

While investigating the case, officers learned that Ali had fled the state and had likely gone to Somalia. The case went cold.

In 2022, court documents state that a woman called MPD’s homicide unit and said she had information about the case. She said that on the day of the murder, Ali had called her and asked for money to leave the country. She added that Ali admitted to the murder and said he had to leave the country because he had been caught on camera at the gas station.

Officers then learned that Ali had returned to the U.S. Out-of-state officers executed a search warrant for Ali’s DNA and compared it to the DNA found on the torn piece of jacket. Ali’s DNA was not excluded from the mixture, but 99.4% of the world’s population was excluded.
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