Last week in Hennepin County District Court, Nicholas Sarkor Harris Jr., 21, of Brooklyn Park, and Hassan Papee Kamara, 21, of Minneapolis, each were charged with five counts, including first- and second‑degree assault and drive‑by shooting. Sources now suggest that there is a third person involved in the incident as well.The charges are in connection with the early morning shooting just after 12:30 a.m. on May 29 outside the home of 19‑year‑old Michael Blidi Jr., who had previously committed to play college football and was considered a football recruit. Blidi was left paralyzed from the waist down after the shooting.
The shooting and its devastating aftermath in Brooklyn Park
Blidi Jr. had recently parked a car outside his home in the 6000 block of Garwood Road North when two masked men drove up beside him in a car police later determined to be a silver sedan, according to court documents. One of the people inside shot him in his lower back. Blidi was unable to feel his legs when paramedics arrived. With multiple fractures in his spine and “large bullet fragments” embedded in his spinal canal, doctors confirmed he would be paraplegic.Blidi, who graduated from Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania this year, was heading to play football this fall at Iowa Central Community College- a dream now destroyed with the sound of one gunshot. A bullet to the spine ended his dream. His father wrote on a crowdfunding page, “His dream was terminated by a gunshot wound to his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed from the knee down. Doctors said he’s not going to walk again.”
Investigation reveals possible motive and accomplices
The shooting is believed to be retaliatory, according to police. Just days earlier, Blidi had fought a man during a local basketball game and then punched the man when he went home and posted on social media about obtaining a firearm. A silver sedan was spotted on surveillance video at the location and eventually returned to an apartment complex in the 5800 block of 73rd Avenue. Kamara’s brother was registered as the owner of the vehicle.Also Read: Clemson goes all-in for EA Sports College Football 26 with 7,000+ photos for more realistic feelHarris and Kamara went into the building immediately following the gunfire, police say. Trokon Kaigboyah, 36, of Brooklyn Park, was also allegedly caught later parking the vehicle in visitor parking. A spent 22 caliber bullet was found upon searching the car and Kaigboyah’s apartment on June 4, police say 40-caliber cartridge casing matching an on-site pistol seizure, believed marijuana, and 2 handguns (including a loaded Glock 23). They also found 45‑caliber rounds hidden in a toilet bowl.Kaigboyah claimed in the court that the day after the shooting, Harris, Kamara, and another unknown person were changing clothes in his apartment before he was handed a paper bag with a firearm. They stayed till about 5 a.m., he said. He has since been charged with being an accessory after the fact.
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