An 18-year-old Minneapolis man is charged with attempted murder in connection with a July incident where shots were fired at a pair of police officers.
Prosecutors filed those charges Friday against Malo Dashaunta Gomez for his alleged role in the July 25th incident.
A criminal complaints says the officers pulled a suspicious vehicle over near the intersection of Lowry and Penn Avenues North, and were sitting in their squad car when someone opened fire on them.
Fortunately neither officer was struck by the gunfire. An army of police officers conducted an extensive search, some with canines, but no suspects were located.
Investigators from the Minneapolis homicide unit and the Hennepin County Violent Offender Task Force Unit began working the streets and eventually heard that Gomez, a documented member of the Stick Up Boys street gang, was bragging about the shooting.
They talked to an inmate at the Red Wing Correctional Facility who confirmed that Gomez was claiming to be the shooter.
After tracking Gomez's whereabouts investigators learned he was in the Hennepin County Jail on other charges. They say Gomez admitted to shooting 9 shots at the officers because he was bored and "wanted to fire the gun off."
It's a hot summer night with nothing to do. What's wrong with taking some shots at the police? Uh, well, maybe in the short-term it worked. As a long-term strategy, however, Gomez's plan seem to have failed, because now he's sitting in a drab cell in the local jail and facing two counts of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault; if convicted, he could do decades in prison, which sounds way more boring and monotonous than living in Minneapolis (even during the winter). Gomez, shoot at some empty whiskey bottles or a squirrel. Cops are not for shooting at.
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