Family IDs teen shot by police in downtown SLC
Source: Fox 13 SLC
SALT LAKE CITY – The teenager shot by Salt Lake City police on Saturday night has been identified by the family as 17-year-old Abdi Mohamed. Mohamed is in a coma at local hospital after getting shot three times, according to family.
Teen shot by police in Salt Lake City was identified by family as 17-year-old Abdi Mohamed.
Police say two officers were involved in the shooting, but they wouldn’t go into any further details.
Selam Mohammed, who was walking with Abdi at the time of the shooting, said Abdi had picked up a broken broom stick right before police arrived.
“The police said, ‘drop it’, once, then they shot him four times,” Selam Mohammed recalled. “We were trying to break it up before the police even came, but the police ran in on foot and pulled their guns out already. They already had them, like, as soon as he was running he was already grabbing for his gun, not even trying to Tase him or anything.”
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Another day in America, another officer-involved shooting of a young black man.
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