A Bloomington man was charged with murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend Monday and putting her body in a dumpster before leading police on a high-speed chase.
Nasri A. Abdilahi, 23, was charged Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court with one count each of second-degree intentional murder and fleeing police.
Abdilahi is being held at the county jail in lieu of $1 million bail. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday afternoon. He did not have an attorney listed for his case.
Abdilahi is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in the neck about 9 a.m. Monday.
According to the charges: Bloomington police went to Nicollet Court Apartments in the 8900 block of Nicollet Avenue S. about 9:45 a.m. after receiving a report that a man was dragging a woman's body through the parking lot of the complex. Abdilahi, the victim and their 1-year-old child lived at the complex.
Police saw a trail of blood leading to the dumpster and found the woman dead inside with trauma to her face and upper torso.
Her identity has not been released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office, who later told police the woman suffered several stab wounds to her neck and significant blunt force trauma.
One witness told police they saw Abdilahi dragging the woman and putting her in the dumpster, the charges said. The witness yelled out a window at him, "What are you doing," called 911 and later pointed Abdilahi out to police as he drove by in his vehicle.
