Fugitive from Hennepin County is arrested after assault in Canada

June 1, 2011 at 2:00AM
Ahmed Abdulqadir Abdi
Ahmed Abdulqadir Abdi (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A fugitive on the Hennepin County Most Wanted list is in jail after he was arrested Monday in Canada.

Ahmed Abdulqadir Abdi, 29, of Hopkins, had been on the run for five years after he was charged in 2005 with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly shooting a man in the head in Minneapolis.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Abdi in connection with an assault that occurred at a bar in Alberta. After Abdi was fingerprinted, the Canadian police discovered he was wanted on a felony warrant in Hennepin County.

Abdi is in jail in Alberta awaiting extradition.

MARY LYNN SMITH

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