An 18-year-old accused of shooting two teenagers outside a Minnesota high school homecoming game posted bond and left jail two days after his arrest, fueling fresh anger over no-condition release and gang violence.
Police say Adam Abdihakeem Adam opened fire outside Eden Prairie High School during the Oct. 2 homecoming football game, wounding an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old and forcing the stadium to empty as fans fled.
Charging details described a parking-lot fight that drew about 10 people after two cars pulled in. Investigators say the driver of one car got out, shot the victims, and fled in what police identified as his brother’s vehicle.
Adam, 18, was taken into custody Oct. 8 near Highway 55 and Penn Avenue in Minneapolis without incident. Hennepin County jail records show a $100,000 bail or bond option with no conditions. He walked out Saturday evening, Oct. 10, at 7:04 p.m. His next court date was set for Monday afternoon.
He faces two felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon.
Investigators tracked Adam’s phone with the vehicle before, during, and after the shooting, according to the charges. He then allegedly ditched the phone and changed the number.
A search of his St. Louis Park home turned up clothing that matched what the shooter wore on surveillance video, the charging account stated. Detectives from the Auto Theft Task Force and West Metro Drug Task Force, working with St. Louis Park and Hopkins officers, boxed in the vehicle for the arrest. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office credited that teamwork for taking him into custody safely.
Eden Prairie Police Chief Matt Sackett praised the multi-agency effort and made clear the case is not closed.
"I’m incredibly proud of our officers and investigators who have worked nonstop alongside our law enforcement partners to identify those responsible and hold them accountable,"
Sackett said the homecoming investigation remains active and that more arrests or charges remain possible.
Two days after booking, the same suspect was back on the street under a no-condition bond. That outcome landed hard with critics who already see soft release rules as a threat to public safety in Minnesota.
President Donald Trump’s Rapid Response 47 account highlighted the release on X and tied it to police concerns about rival Somali gangs in the metro area.
"A Radical Left judge immediately granted him a no-condition bail,"
the account posted. The post framed the decision as another example of judges putting defendants back on the street with few restraints after serious gun charges.
Families who packed the stands for a high school homecoming did not sign up for a parking-lot shooting or a stadium evacuation. Taxpayers and lawful residents expect the justice system to keep armed suspects locked down while cases move forward, not wave them out on paper promises.
Minnesota has already lived through searing courtroom moments in recent years, including the case that ended with Vance Boelter sentenced to two life terms for killing a state House leader and her husband. When violence hits close to home, the public watches whether courts treat gun cases with matching seriousness.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya told Fox News Digital that local officers are naming the pattern directly. She pointed to the Eden Prairie homecoming shooting and other recent violence while warning that Minnesotans increasingly feel under threat.
"Our law enforcement here are calling it out as the product of Somali gang violence, and we’ve got to identify it, and we have to find a way to deal with it,"
Tafoya said. Police leaders across the metro have been sharing intelligence under coordination from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, aiming to stop more shootings before they start.
Eden Prairie police are also looking at a separate shots-fired call Oct. 5 at a Speedway gas station. No one was hurt there, and officers have not identified a link to the homecoming attack. Still, the back-to-back gun calls in the same community add to the sense that the problem is not isolated.
Bloomington’s police chief has likewise called out Somali juvenile gangs as assimilation and street-crime worries grow after major automatic gunfire in local neighborhoods. The public debate is no longer abstract. It is about who controls the parking lots outside high school football games.
Those same arguments over enforcement and accountability surface in Washington fights as well, from Ilhan Omar’s push to strip ICE funding to broader clashes over how hard federal and local agencies should press immigration-linked crime.
The verified sequence is straightforward. On Oct. 2, gunfire outside Eden Prairie High School’s homecoming game wounded two teenagers and cleared the stadium. On Oct. 8, police arrested Adam without incident in Minneapolis. On Oct. 10 he posted the $100,000 bond and left jail the same evening. Monday afternoon brought the next court appearance on the assault and riot charges.
Evidence cited in the charging narrative includes the phone track, the abandoned device, the changed number, the brother’s car, and clothing recovered from the St. Louis Park home that matched surveillance video. None of that stopped a no-condition release two days after booking.
Judicial decisions in high-profile cases often become flashpoints, whether the matter is a local gun felony or a judge-approved warrant in a major immigration fraud probe. The public measures those choices by one standard: do dangerous people stay off the street while the facts are tested in court?
Chief Sackett’s department and its partners did the hard work of identifying a suspect, building a case, and making a clean arrest. The bond decision undid the street-level result almost immediately. That gap, between police work and courtroom release, is what leaves parents, coaches, and fans wondering who the system is built to protect.
Open questions remain. Victim medical updates have not been detailed in the available accounts. Exact motive language beyond the gang-violence discussion from law enforcement and candidates is not spelled out in the charging summary made public. Additional arrests are still possible. The core facts already on the record are enough to explain why the release landed with such force.
When teenagers are shot outside a homecoming game and the accused is home in two days on a no-condition bond, the message to every law-abiding family is plain. Accountability delayed is safety denied.