
Rochester Shooter’s Sentence Extended for Witness Tampering
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A man sent to prison last year for a shooting in Rochester five years ago has had some additional time added to his prison term.
According to Olmsted County court records, 44-year-old Abdusalam Omar Hussein was given a five year prison sentence last August after he was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and illegal possession of a firearm. The conviction stems from a shooting that occurred on November 3, 2019.
The criminal complaint in the case says Hussein entered the victim's apartment that morning and shot the other man multiple times. The court document indicates the victim suffered five gunshot wounds on his leg and a minor wound on one of his hands.
Later the same day, a man working at a northwest Rochester gas station reported that he had been threatened by a motorist with a gun. Court documents say Hussein followed that by making a 911 call, during which he claimed he was a child soldier.
The charges against him stated that law enforcement officers were able to trace the call and locate Hussein as he was driving north on Highway 52. At one point, Hussein told the 911 dispatcher he was not going to stop and was willing to shoot at the officers.
He was arrested after he crashed the vehicle in an area north of Rochester. The criminal complaint says he gave a statement to police in which he blamed the earlier shooting on being disrespected at an earlier party.
Hussein was also charged with felony counts of tampering with a witness and terroristic threats. The criminal complaint alleged that he threatened to kill the shooting victim and his mother in an effort to deter the other man from testifying against him. In November, he entered into a plea agreement and admitted to the witness tampering charge in exchange for the dismissal of the terroristic threats count.
Hussein was sentenced today on the witness tampering conviction. He was given an 18 month prison sentence to be served consecutively with his five year prison term for his convictions stemming from the 2019 shooting.
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