Authorities identify man who killed police officer in Minneapolis

The gunman who shot and killed a Minneapolis police officer was identified Saturday as a 35-year-old Minnesota man.

According to a news release from the Hennepin County Coroner’s Office, Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed was the man who shot and killed Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell and died Thursday after a bloody gun battle that left three people dead and four others injured.

The press release only lists Mohamed as living in Minnesota, but court records show he had an address in St. Cloud in 2023. He died of multiple gunshot wounds in front of his home at 2109 Blaisdell Av., Minneapolis.

The chaos began late Thursday afternoon when residents heard four to five gunshots in an apartment on Blaisdell Avenue. A man heard a woman say her boyfriend and another person had been shot in the head.

Minneapolis police Officer Jamal Mitchell responded to the call around 5:15 a.m. and went to help two people he thought were injured. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigators believe one of them was Mohamed, who ambushed Mitchell and shot him after he fell to the ground.

Minneapolis authorities confirmed that Mohamed died in a shootout with police officers. Although the report states that the cause of death was homicide, it states that “the determination of manner of death is a statutory duty of the medical examiner (and) … is not a legal determination of guilt or intent.”

Court records available Saturday show that two warrants were out for Mohamed’s arrest at the time of Thursday’s shooting. Both were related to two felony convictions – one for first-degree burglary in 2008 and one for third-degree burglary in 2006. Mohamed had served prison time for both offenses, but court records did not say why the warrants were issued.

Authorities have not yet disclosed who shot the people in the house or a passerby in a vehicle.

Editors Louis Krauss and Paul Walsh contributed to this story.