New
Hampshire: More on that interstate Somali refugee gang violence, by
Ann Corcoran 5/15/18
Update! From
left, SALIM HUSSEIN, ABDI MOHAMED, ALI HUSSEIN and JAFAR ISSAK (Salim Hussein
and Jafar Issak are still in custody). Good luck getting the other two back for
trial after they posted ridiculously low bail.
NH wedding parking-lot brawl traces back to Ohio street gang grudges - “These guys are definitely part of street gangs (in Columbus),” he
said. But
the reason for the grudge isn’t clear. Police
in Columbus said several factors have come into play in the rise of
Somalian-dominated street gangs:
Just as I hit publish on my previous post about the Somali gang members who traveled hundreds of
miles to shoot up a Concord, NH wedding on April 22nd, I saw that the Union Leader had an update two weeks later.
(Apologies to any
readers who might have alerted me to this story and I missed your e-mail!)
Here is more of the stunning
story from the Union Leader (the title I think downplays the
seriousness of the event):
CONCORD — The parking-lot
melee at the end of a Concord wedding — a chaotic event that included gunshots,
fist fights and terrified guests fleeing into the woods — involved grudges and
a street gang in the Columbus, Ohio, area, according to police investigating
the April 22 event.
But two weeks after
the Somalian wedding at the Bektash Temple in Concord, police said
they don’t have an exact explanation for what happened. They are working
with their counterparts in Columbus, home to one of the largest pockets of
resettled Somalians in the country, to try to unravel what happened.
Meanwhile, two of four people
arrested in light of the shooting have raised bail and left the Merrimack
County jail. The other two, arrested on a more serious charge of reckless
conduct with a firearm, remain behind bars. And Concord police said cooperation
“has not been the best” among many of the guests.
“All we can say right now
there was a grudge between factions in this group,” said Concord police Lt. Sean
Ford.
• Somalians don’t forget tribal
animosities just because they move to the United States, and at one point Columbus tracked
10 to 15 clans with histories of grudges and shifting alliances, said Khaled
Bahgat, the new American diversity/inclusion officer for Columbus police. He added
that those animosities seemed to have calmed in recent years. [Maybe not!—ed]
Egyptian Muslim Khaled Bahgat, the
new American diversity/inclusion officer for Columbus police tries to explain
Somali culture.
• Refugee families settle in inner-city
communities, where youths find role models among street criminals. Recently,
some Somalians have been robbing Columbus pharmacies and engaging in drug
trafficking, Bahgat said. “Some,
unfortunately, follow the path of whatever environment they’re in. Once they
take that road, they become very bold. They feel like nobody can touch them,”
he said.
• When younger family members
succumb to the lure of street crime, their strict, fundamentalist parents and
older relatives shun them, which pushes them further toward delinquency, Bahgat
said.
“When I say it was chaos,
it was chaos,” Ford said. Arriving officers were unable to control the crowd.
Some were fighting, some were running, and others were insisting that someone
had been shot and ran into the woods, he said.
Ford said that police believe
that the four people arrested were part of a larger group who arrived to cause
trouble. The rest were able to get away.
The Shriners are left holding the bag…..There is a lesson here for anyone
considering renting to certain wedding parties. Imagine what the neighbors were
experiencing that night!
The Bektash Temple had rented
its function space for the wedding, said Guiod “Bushie” Hill, the recorder for
the Temple.
He said the rental included
use of the kitchen, stage and portable dance floor. Hill said the wedding
couple may have been from New Hampshire — records were not available at the
time of the interview — but the
people who leased the hall were from out of state.
Most of the cars parked
in the lot were from out of state, too, he said.
The party said alcohol
would not be served, but many empty containers were found in the woods, Hill
said. The Somali wedding party never cleaned up.
Why am I surprised? Remember
these are the people boasting that
they will run America some
day (LOL! like they governed Somalia!).
“There’s no excuse for
what happened,” said Hill, who expressed apologies to neighbors. Hill said
people were still coming out of the nearby woods the following morning. He said
the agreement called for them to clean up, but that never happened.
“They just got in their cars
and left as quickly as they could,” he said. They won’t, he said, get back
their $350 deposit.
More here at the Union Leader.
I have many posts about changing New
Hampshire one
refugee group at a time.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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