Minneapolis police tried to buy gun from Dolal Idd before shooting

Investigators in Minnesota were trying to buy a high-capacity pistol from Dolal Idd with the help of a confidential informant before the 23-year old was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Minneapolis police last week, according to search warrant documents released Monday.

Shots were exchanged Wednesday night when police moved in to arrest Idd, an Eden Prairie man, at a south Minneapolis gas station, the documents said. Idd, a Somali-American, died at the scene — the first police killing in the city since George Floyd died during an encounter with officers in May.

Crime scene personnel from the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) spotted a black-and-silver handgun between Idd's body and the center console of the car he was driving, the documents said. The documents did not say whether the gun was the same type that investigators were trying to buy. A female passenger who owned the vehicle but was not named in the documents told investigators that she was Idd's girlfriend. She said she knew him only as "Bird," a nickname that police knew he used.

A preliminary BCA report on Monday also said Idd fired first. The investigation found that Idd struck several police vehicles with his car, "then fired his weapon at officers. The three officers returned fire, fatally striking Mr. Idd," the report said. The agency said they recovered both a handgun and a MAC-10 assault-style handgun from Idd's car.

The BCA also identified the officers involved as Paul Huynh, a six-year veteran; Jason Schmitt; a 23-year veteran; and Sgt. Darcy Klund, a 33-year veteran. The investigation is ongoing.

In the search warrant application, BCA special agent Brandon Johnson said the informant told police that Idd had firearms at his home. The agent said that due to Idd's history of weapons and narcotics arrests he sought authorization for a nighttime raid of Idd's home, which was owned by Idd's father.

The agent also noted that Idd's brother, who had lived there too, was recently arrested by Bloomington police in a gun homicide. Investigators believed they would find weapons at the residence and were concerned that evidence could be moved or destroyed when Idd's family learned of his death, the agent explained.

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding over the cases of four ex-Minneapolis police officers charged in Floyd's death, approved the search warrant. Johnson later reported back that no firearms, ammunition or other potential evidence related to firearms were found in the early Thursday search.

Authorities had previously said that Idd was being sought in a weapons investigation, but the search warrant documents provided the first detailed account of why police were focused on Idd: He was prohibited from possessing guns because of a 2018 weapons offense for possessing a stolen shotgun.

The Minneapolis Police Department on Thursday released body camera footage of the shooting death of Idd.

Idd's father, Bayle Gelle, identified his 23-year-old son as the man shot Wednesday evening at a gas station during a traffic stop for a felony warrant, the Star Tribune reported.

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said witnesses reported that Idd fired first. Body camera footage from one officer's point of view shows the driver of a white sedan attempting to flee. The motorist collides with a squad car as an officer points a weapon at the vehicle and screams, "Hands up, police!"

The motorist then reverses and another police cruiser pins the car on the driver's side, before what sounds like at least one shot fired from inside the vehicle. Officers then return fire and several gunshots are heard.

Gelle told the newspaper his son was the motorist killed by police.

"The police, they are brutality," he said.
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