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EDINA, Minn. (FOX 9) – A Brooklyn Park man is facing serious charges after police say he shot his father in the head<\/a> during a family dispute in Edina.\u00a0<\/p>\n Edina domestic shooting <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Mahamoud Hachi Farah, 26, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder and illegal firearm possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a criminal complaint, police responded to a shooting at a residence on the 6300 block of York Avenue South at about 10:40 a.m. on Friday, May 1. A caller told dispatchers their father had been shot in the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n When officers arrived, they found the victim lying on the floor with blood around him and a gunshot wound near his neck and jaw. The victim was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with a fractured jaw, a broken C2 vertebrae and an injured carotid artery.\u00a0<\/p>\n The complaint states police identified the shooter as Mahamoud Hachi Farah, the victim\u2019s son. Witnesses told investigators that Farah had a history of drug use, threats and abuse toward the family. One witness said they saw Farah shoot his father after an argument. Investigators say Farah left the scene in a white Chevrolet Impala. Officers later found and arrested him at Cub Foods in Brooklyn Park, recovering a Taurus 9mm handgun, matching ammunition and drug residue from the vehicle.<\/p>\n The ammunition matched 9mm Sellier & Bellot rounds stolen from a St. Louis Park business about 30 minutes before the shooting. Farah is charged with attempted second-degree murder and illegal firearm possession. The complaint states that Farah has prior felony convictions for threats of violence and second-degree drug possession, making it illegal for him to possess firearms or ammunition.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Authorities have not provided an update on the shooting victim.<\/p>\n The Source: Criminal charges filed in Hennepin County Court.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Edina<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDINA, Minn. (FOX 9) – A Brooklyn Park man is facing serious charges after police say he shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,850,87134,9230,9229,9,24,12,63,618],"class_list":["post-221055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-edina","tag-hennepin-county","tag-mn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}