Created: 05/05/2009 8:19 PM KSTP.com | Print Story
By: Nicole Muehlhausen, Web Producer
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Roles reversed, new charges in Lakeville party shooting
 

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The Dakota County Attorney’s Office says they will push additional charges against two young men accused of a shooting at a party in Lakeville that injured four people.

Officials say Ahmed Ali, who is either 19 or 20—however they are unsure because he has several aliases—is now the believed shooter in the incident and faces four felony counts of second-degree assault.

Osman Oman Osman, 20, has been charged with aiding an offender. Police say these two men escaped arrest on the night of March 29 after the incident and were later found in custody in other states.

Dakota County officials say the previous charges against Mohamed Yusef Hussein, 16, of Eden Prairie, were dismissed and the new charges of aiding and offender and providing a false name to a police officer were filed Tuesday.

Police initially had thought Hussein had been the shooter, but forensic evidence and witness statements have now pointed to Ali as the alleged suspect.

Aiding charges against two other teens—Jibril Farah Mohamed, 18, of Burnsville, and Mohamud Ahmed Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis—remain the same. Both of them remain in custody at the Hennepin County Jail.

Lakeville Police say they were called to a home in the Ardmore Mobile Home Park on Caesar Drive just before 12:30 a.m. on March 29 over a dispute about the lack of women at a party at the residence.

The criminal complaint says the shooting happened after Hussein and his friends were refused a refund on their entry fee. As Hussein was walking away, he turned and fired several shots into the side of the mobile home.

According to the charges, more than a dozen adults and teens were present when police arrived. Police found a male shot in the forearm, another shot in the thigh, a third shot in the buttock, and a female shot slightly below the ankle. 

Officers arrested Hussein along with Mohamed and Hassan after they were found driving around near the scene. After retracing their path, authorities located the semi-automatic handgun believed to have been used in the shooting in a grassy area near a Cub Foods.

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