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On the morning of October 26, 2024, a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man was walking to synagogue in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood when he was shot in the shoulder. The shooter was 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national who had crossed the US southern border illegally near San Ysidro, California, in late March 2023 and was released into the country after screening. Abdallahi followed the man and opened fire without warning. When police and paramedics arrived, he returned to the area and fired on them from multiple locations, striking an ambulance. Officers returned fire and wounded him. No officers or paramedics were injured. The victim was hospitalized and later released. Surveillance footage captured Abdallahi shouting “Allahu Akbar” during the second phase of the attack. Police later recovered his phone, which contained more than 100 antisemitic and pro-Hamas images and videos. In the days before the shooting he had mapped multiple Chicago synagogues and Jewish schools, including one a block from the scene, and had searched for “Jewish Community Center” and a gun store. Abdallahi was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm, a hate crime, and terrorism under Illinois law. He was held at Cook County Jail. On November 30, 2024, he was found unresponsive in his cell after an apparent suicide by hanging and later died. The case was the first publicly charged terrorism offense on US soil involving a foreign national who had entered illegally across the southern border.