Ramsey County Sheriff Says Minnesota Has Problem with Kids in Somali Gangs


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SCULLIN (voice-over): "A number of shootings and a homicide over the 4th of July weekend involving Somali gangs. On Wilson street in Minneapolis, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says a Willmar soccer coach was killed as part of Somali gang violence. But the problem didn’t start there."

FLETCHER: "This last weekend, we were at the Juice Time in Arden Hills. There was 300 young Somali kids there, and some of them were gangsters. And we had a number of us law enforcement officers there that curtailed their activity. But two hours later, they were shooting someone over  in northeast Minneapolis, same group."

SCULLIN (voice-over): "Fletcher and his investigators say Somali gang violence is growing fast and spans the Metro with 12 Somali from Minneapolis and Saint Paul to Saint Cloud, Apple Valley and Burnsville. Ramsey County tracking the violence within the Somali community. The majority of it is gun violence."

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