ROCHESTER, Minn. – A verdict of guilty was entered on behalf of a homeless man accused in a 2019 shooting in which a man was awakened at his apartment and shot several times. Abdusalam Omar Hussein, 43, had put himself at the mercy of the court, and the judge entered the plea. Sentencing was put off until later. Hussein was arrested in November 2019 after a gas station clerk reported him brandishing a gun. This was after a man at a southeast Rochester apartment took five bullets – four in a leg, one in an arm. The man told police he had been sleeping when a person he knew as “Dream” walked into his unlocked apartment, started kicking him, waved a gun around, and opened fire. This was about 6:20 a.m.
Hussein. Faces two counts assault and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He earlier underwent psychological evaluations.