WATCH: Man charged in lethal Kansas City capturing, leaving sufferer’s tangible on busy avenue

Saturday March 18, 2023

by: Brian Dulle

Jackson County prosecutors on Friday charged Ibrahim Abdikarim Sharif Ahmed with second-degree homicide, illegal use of a weapon and two counts of armed felony motion.

According to court records, simply earlier than 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, Kansas City cops responded to Independence Avenue and Garfield Avenue on a medical name.

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When officers arrived on the scene, pedestrians close to Independence Avenue and Olive Street started waving to get their consideration.

Witnesses informed police that the motive force of a Dodge Challenger or Charger had pushed down Independence Avenue when the motive force shoved somebody out of the car.

The sufferer, Yussuf, was pronounced lifeless at an vicinity hospital.

KCPD analysts matched the Dodge car’s license plate to the defendant. Officers took the suspect into custody.

A witness informed police she was within the car for the period of the capturing and acknowledged the suspect had been smoking PCP just before the incident. She acknowledged the sufferer informed the suspect to be calculating as he was “messing up the car.” The witness mentioned she seemed all the way down to conclude a textual content message and heard 5 pictures come from inside the motor vehicle. As her ears have been ringing from the gunshots, she observed the sufferer with obvious blood on his face.

Ibrahim Abdikarim Sharif Ahmed. Credit / Jackson County 

While driving, Ibrahim Abdikarim Sharif Ahmed informed the witness to get Yussuf out of the car. Afraid that he would shoot her, she complied and helped with pushing the sufferer from the car as they traveled down Independence Avenue, court docket information say.

One enterprise within the vicinity confirmed FOX4 footage from the scene at 8:50 p.m. that confirmed a number of automobiles driving alongside Independence when what appears like a pink Dodge Challenger stops in the midst of the highway. Less than a minute later, it takes a left onto Olive, revealing a person’s tangible left behind within the avenue.

A 26-year-old man informed FOX4 he knew the sufferer, and that he solely discovered about his childhood pal’s loss of life when FOX4 inquired in regards to the surveillance footage. He additionally mentioned that exact vicinity has a heavy East African presence, with a lot of people from Somalia, which include himself and the sufferer.

Prosecutors have requested a $150,000 bond for Ibrahim Abdikarim Sharif Ahmed.