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Suspect in Minnesota mall stabbing is named
He had been in the U.S. since he was three months old, worked as a part-time security guard, and only has one traffic ticket on his record. It seems our greatest threat isn't from overseas. Many of these people were born and raised here.
The man accused of going on a stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall over the weekend was a young local named Dahir Ahmed Adan, officials said.
The 20-year-old from St. Cloud allegedly stabbed 10 people before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer, ending what authorities called a "potential act of terrorism" at the mall Saturday.
Adan — whose name was confirmed by the St. Cloud Police Department on Monday night — allegedly entered the city's Crossroads Mall wearing a private security uniform.
According to police, he asked at least one person if they were Muslim and made references to Allah while carrying out the stabbings.
None of the 10 people wounded suffered life-threatening injuries.
While an ISIS-affiliated media outlet claimed the attacker was a "soldier" of the terror group, no evidence has emerged to suggest ISIS had a hand in planning or executing the attack.
Adan was a Somali refugee who moved to the United States when he was 3 months old, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Community leaders and neighbors told the newspaper that he was a "quiet and studious" young man who came from a "humble and well-known local Somali family."
He had been in the U.S. since he was three months old, worked as a part-time security guard, and only has one traffic ticket on his record. It seems our greatest threat isn't from overseas. Many of these people were born and raised here.