Dahir Adan (1995-17 September 2016) was an American Islamic State supporter who injured nine people in a stabbing at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota before being gunned down by police in September 2016.
Biography[]
Dahir Adan was born in 1995 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States to a family of Somali descent, and he practiced Sunni Islam. He was a good student at Apollo High School, and he did not have a violent criminal record; he had been stopped by police three times for minor traffic violations, however. Adan proceeded to attend St. Cloud State University, working part-time as a private security officer. However, Adan would be radicalized online, and he became a sympathizer of the Islamic State. On 17 September 2016, he entered the Crossroads Center mall with a knife and stabbed customers inside of the mall, wounding nine people. He was then gunned down by an off-duty policeman, ending his rampage. Amaq News Agency stated that the attack had been carried out by an IS soldier.