(Chicago Sun-Times) A man now facing hate crime charges after shooting an Orthodox Jewish man and firing on police and paramedics last month had mapped the locations of several Chicago synagogues and Jewish schools in the days leading up to the attack in the North Side’s West Ridge neighborhood, prosecutors said.
At a detention hearing Friday, prosecutors said Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi’s cellphone data showed the 22-year-old had been seeking out targets for days before shooting a 39-year-old man who was on his way to worship services on Oct. 26. Among several addresses Abdallahi had mapped on his phone was a synagogue just a block from the shooting scene.
“This was not anything but a planned attack … an attempted assassination of these people,” Assistant State’s Attorney Anne McCord Rodgers said.
