Twin Cities teen gets 4 years in juvenile lockup for man’s accidental fatal shooting

A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to four years in juvenile detention for the accidental fatal shooting of a man who was dropped off at a Twin Cities hospital before he died.

Abdihafed Mohamed Abdirisak was sentenced Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the shooting on Feb. 28 of Ibrahim Faisal Dabarani, 20, of Minneapolis.

Abdirisak, of Minneapolis, will be housed at the Minnesota correctional facility for juveniles in Red Wing. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop their effort to have Abdirisak tried as an adult, which would involve a prison sentence.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson pushed for a sentence of electronic home monitoring, telling the court that Abdirisak was unfamiliar with the gun when he handled it, and it accidentally went off.

Judge Julie Allyn accepted the defense’s argument that the shooting was accidental, but wrote in her order that “other facts support out-of-home placement such as [Abdirisak’s] actions after the shooting, the resultant loss of life and [his] lack of remorse and empathy.”

Police said they believe Dabarani was wounded in the 4200 block of Central Avenue NE. shortly before 11:10 p.m. and then dropped off by a private party at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, where he died a few minutes after midnight.

According to the juvenile petition:

Police found the car on March 2 in Columbia Heights near Reservoir Boulevard and 42nd Avenue NE. and identified the driver as an 18-year-old man, whose identity was not disclosed in the charging document against Abdirisak.

The 18-year-old said he and Dabarani picked up Abdirisak at the boy’s home in Minneapolis, then drove to a McDonald’s in Columbia Heights.

The teen said he and Dabarani then drove to the Yummy Bites coffee shop in the 4200 block of Central Avenue that night.

He said Abdirisak was removing a gun from his backpack to put it in his jacket while still in the car and the weapon went off, wounding Dabarani. He added that Abdirisak picked up the spent bullet casing before getting out of the car.