They continue to try to link Adan as a terrorist.
The officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing so this one is done.
Police show video of St. Cloud mall attacker's fatal encounter with off-duty officer
Videos show Dahir Adan chasing terrified shoppers.
By Jennifer Brooks, Faiza Mahamud, Paul Walsh | Star Tribune | October 7, 2016ST. CLOUD – Before he took up his knives, Dahir Adan delivered a haunting farewell — and warning.
“You won’t be seeing me again,” the 20-year-old Somali refugee told a SuperAmerica clerk as he stepped out into the night of Sept. 17.
An hour later, Adan was dead, shot down by an off-duty police officer after Adan hacked and slashed his way through the Crossroad Center mall with a steak knife in each hand. Ten people were stabbed and left bleeding, an entire community was terrorized.
At a news conference Thursday, investigators spelled out in detail just what happened in the mall that Saturday night, even as they still search for the reasons why. While they have yet to establish a solid link between Adan and a terrorist group, they said victim and witness interviews, store video, and Adan’s words and actions in the minutes before and during the stabbings pointed to a premeditated attack.
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There were videos from mall surveillance cameras, showing Adan, dressed in his security guard uniform from work, chasing terrified shoppers. A quick-witted clerk in a candy shop slammed down the security grate just as Adan lunged toward him, knives clearly visible in his hands.
The final moments of Adan’s life were captured on camera, from many angles, as he repeatedly charged off-duty police officer Jason Falconer, who was in the mall shopping. The videos show Adan lunging, falling, advancing again and eventually crawling across a bloodied floor toward Falconer with six bullets in his body and a knife still visible in his hand.
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While authorities Thursday laid out many of the details of Adan’s attack, they also cleared Falconer of any wrongdoing in Adan’s death.
Falconer acted swiftly and appropriately after he found himself face-to-face with a knife-wielding man who demanded to know if he was a Muslim, Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall said.
Falconer, a former police chief who owns a local shooting range and works part-time as an officer for the Avon Police Department, told Adan “No,” he wasn’t a Muslim. After Adan turned and left, Falconer, who was off duty and in plain clothes, drew his weapon, identified himself as an officer and followed Adan, shouting at him to drop his weapons.
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