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Suspect in 2021 fatal shooting outside Brooklyn Park market arrested in Virginia

WCCO digital headlines: Morning of Jan. 19, 2022
WCCO digital headlines: Morning of Jan. 19, 2022 00:57

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- A man has been arrested in Virginia in connection to a fatal 2021 Brooklyn Park shooting.

Alameen Allah Shabazz was shot outside the Nice Family African Market on June 22, 2021. At the time, witnesses said that a man sitting in a car shot Shabazz, who was walking in front of the store. Shabazz was pronounced dead at a hospital soon after.

The suspect was found in Bedford County, Virginia on Wednesday and was taken into custody. He is awaiting extradition to Minnesota.

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