CHICAGO — The person charged in an alleged hate crime taking pictures in West Ridge has died in Prepare dinner County Jail of an obvious suicide, in response to officers.
Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, was being detained on the Cermak Well being Providers wing of the county jail after allegedly taking pictures an Orthodox Jewish man in West Ridge earlier than being injured in a shootout with police.
Abdallahi was charged with one felony depend of terrorism and one felony depend of a hate crime, along with six counts of tried homicide and different costs, within the October taking pictures and police shootout.
He was transferred to the jail’s hospital on Nov. 15 from St. Francis Hospital, the place he was being handled for accidents after being shot by police through the assault, the Prepare dinner County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
Round 3:30 p.m. Saturday, sheriff’s workplace workers was conducting routine safety checks after they discovered Abdallahi unresponsive attributable to an obvious suicide by hanging in his cell, the workplace stated Sunday.
Employees performed life-saving measures earlier than Abdallahi was taken by paramedics to Mount Sinai Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
There’s presently no proof of foul play and there was no prior proof the detainee was a suicide threat, the workplace stated.
The trigger and method of dying are pending an investigation by the Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace. Illinois State Police’s Public Integrity Activity Pressure will conduct an investigation into the dying, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
Abdallahi is accused of taking pictures a 39-year-old man in his shoulder in late October on a West Ridge residential block. The sufferer is Orthodox Jewish and was strolling to synagogue whereas sporting apparel making him “identifiable as a Jewish particular person,” together with a yarmulke, Ald. Debra Silverstein (fiftieth) beforehand stated.
When police and paramedics responded to the scene, Abdallahi fired photographs at them from “numerous areas.” An ambulance was hit by gunfire — and police returned photographs throughout a chronic gun battle, hitting Abdallahi “a number of instances,” Snelling stated.
The taking pictures rattled West Ridge, house to the most important Orthodox Jewish neighborhood within the metropolis, which has seen rising cases of hate crimes. Within the days following the taking pictures, Silverstein and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood officers pushed for hate crime costs to be filed in opposition to Abdallahi.
Hate crime costs had been introduced days later, with police officers saying proof from Abdallahi’s cellphone confirmed he focused Jewish individuals in West Ridge.
The West Ridge taking pictures comes amid an uptick in antisemitic incidents regionally and nationally. West Ridge has been a hotbed of a few of these assaults, in response to CBS Chicago.
Silverstein introduced Abdallahi’s obvious suicide in a observe to constituents Sunday and thanked first responders for his or her work within the case.
“Thanks to the primary responders who stopped the suspect and to all of the native cops who labored on this case. We’re deeply grateful to legislation enforcement for his or her dedication to holding our neighborhood protected,” Silverstein stated.
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