Local Man Charged with Assaulting Minneapolis Security Guards

A Burnsville man has been charged with pointing a handgun at two security guards after they asked him to leave a Minneapolis apartment complex.

Mohamed Abdi Mohamed, 20, is charged with two felony counts of second-degree assault with a firearm, each of which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine, and two felony counts of making terroristic threats, each of which has a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Mohamed remains in the Hennepin County Jail on a $75,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled June 21 in Hennepin County District Court.

According to the criminal complaint, signed by Minneapolis Police Sgt. Bruce Kohn, police were called to the Riverside Plaza apartment complex just before 7 a.m. May 9 on a report of a person with a gun.

Two security guards working at the complex told police that they were assaulted by Mohamed, known by the nickname “Young Jock,” whom they had removed from the building on previous occasions.

Just after 6:30 a.m., the guards told police, they were watching surveillance video when they spotted Mohamed in the lobby of one of the buildings. The two approached Mohamed and told him he wasn’t allowed on the property; he told them he wouldn’t accompany them to the office and produced a handgun, the complaint says.

Mohamed stepped toward one of the guards and, from a distance of an arm’s length, pointed the gun into the man’s face, according to Kohn’s account. The guard shouted, “Gun, gun,” at which point Mohamed turned to the second guard and pointed the gun at his face, the complaint charges.

The second guard put his hands in the air and closed his eyes, and Mohamed ran from the building, according to the complaint.

Police subsequently reviewed surveillance video, which showed Mohamed pointing the gun at both guards, the complaint says.