An Edina man shot a woman in the back, drove her body to a hospital and claimed to police that the wound was self-inflicted, according to charges filed Tuesday.
Yusuf Ali Salat, 25, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree murder and first-degree drug possession in connection with the death of Sumaya Hassan Mohamed, 23, who was shot late last week at her home in Richfield.
Salat was arrested soon after he arrived at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina and remains jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail ahead of a court hearing Wednesday afternoon. Court records do not list an attorney for him.
According to the charges:
A caller to 911 on Saturday reported seeing a man carrying a woman out of the apartment building who appeared to be bloodied and dead. The caller said she told the man to stop, but he continued leaving.
Officers who responded to the building at 7601 Knox Av. S. saw blood in the hall and on the door of an apartment. They entered and saw more blood on the carpet and an entry wall.
Police caught up with Salat’s car as he sped and ran a red light while on his way to the hospital a few miles from the apartment building.
Salat stopped outside the emergency room entrance, with Mohamed in the back seat, where he “informed officers that [she] had shot herself.”
