Officer Andrew Citriniti and Officer Patrick Husney were also in pursuit of Mway. While Officer Patterson was still on top of the subdued child, Officer Husney shoots Mway in the chest. The boy starts bleeding out on the sidewalk.
Mere moments after the police encounter, Mway starts running down the street. In one of the body cam videos, Mway turns toward Officer Bryce Patterson, who is then heard shouting, “He has a gun!” Patterson tackles Mway to the ground and repeatedly punches the boy in the head.
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Within 48 hours, police ID'd suspect 17-year-old Ahmed Shire Ali. He pleaded guilty to 3 counts of aggravated robbery & served 12 years. He recanted his claim re Mahdi. “I was protecting someone else. And he (Mahdi) ended up taking the fall for something he didn’t end up doing.”
On the night of January 6, 2010, within 62 seconds of sheer horror, Anwar Mohammed, Mohamed Warfa and Osman Elmi, were slain at Seward Market in South Minneapolis during a robbery that went wrong. Footage from impound lot, Dahabshiil check cashing store & Seward Market.
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Mahdi said growing up in the system & having a guardian who was illiterate & didn’t speak English made him an easy target for police to pin the murders on. “I was the perfect scapegoat,” he exclaimed. Mahdi’s life story is something movies are made out of.
For more than 14 years, Mahdi has ardently maintained his innocence. He believes Ahmed committed the crimes with his cousin and had every reason to frame him. In 2013, Mahdi unsuccessfully appealed his sentence at the Minnesota Supreme Court, which ruled against him the following year, but he continues to fight for his freedom to this day.
He was tried as an adult and convicted September 23, 2011 for one count of premeditated first-degree murder, two counts of second degree murder, and three counts of first-degree felony murder. Mahdi Ali was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
After Mahdi’s arrest, the woman he believed was his grandmother, Sainab Osman, revealed that she was really his biological mother, which was also backed up by DNA tests. Osman, with whom Mahdi shares a striking resemblance, spoke to UR through an interpreter.
Mahdi continued to get in trouble as a teen, though he said he never carried guns and mostly got into trouble for theft and stealing cars. “But I am not a killer,” he insisted.
He was reunited with who he thought was his grandmother. Mahdi admitted that he wasn’t an angel. “I had to take care of myself,” he explained. “How could they blame me for surviving when I was just a kid and they put me in that situation in the first place?”
When his friend died, the parents offered him an opportunity to go to America, but he would have to assume the identity of their son, and keep it a secret. The couple abandoned Mahdi. He ended up in and out of foster homes, group homes, and juvenile detention centers.