here is what we know: So, it looks like an ambush. The gunman is rumored to be a Somalian refugee. We know he is 37 year.old Mohammed Barakat. He is known to police but they were not suspicious of him or had any reason to be wary of him.

There was a traffic accident that police had responded to but no word if he was in the acciden or if he saw the accident and pulled into a bank parking lot. We know he was in the bank parking lot near the accident, opened his trunk and took out a rifle. He started shooting at the police, who had their backs turned to him. The rifle he had was claimed by witnesses to be an AR-15 and sounded 'like Automatic gunfire' but slower than a factory made full auto AR. No word from police about the weapon or weapons used.

He killed one officer, Officer Jake Wallin, 23, who had graduated the police academy and joined the Fargo PD in April of this year. Police said there was zero chance of saving his life, he was dead on the scene.

Mohammed critically wounded two others (they are in critial but stable condition). The fourth officer killed the gunman. The Officer who killed the gunman was training Jake.

Fargo police wear body armor as standard practice.

A 25-year-old female bystander also was injured in the shooting, but no word on who shot her (cops or gunman) and she is in fair condition at the hospital.

The FBI, BCI. ATF, and US Marshals are processing his apartment, and a number of ATF and FBI SUVs are in the city now, which isn't normal. There was information leaked that a 'black substance ' was found at his apartment and "some 'documents".

It had just been the FBI and US Marshals at first. They both have satellite offices in the down town federal building so while it was different than the response the last time a Fargo cop was killed, we didnt think much of it.

Then yesterday the ATF arrived In force and the number of FBI agents went from two to like 10.

The apartment complex he lived in was evacuated Friday around 4:30pm, and the residents have still not.been allowed back to their apartments.

Many questions indeed.

Rest in peace and God bless you Jake Wallin. Combat veteran and officer at age 23.

North Dakota is a very dangerous place for police officers, very loose gun laws, no restrictions on clip size. The conservative fifth and sixth circuit courts overturned the ban on bump stocks this year making this kind of ambush all that much easier for criminals.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147698112/bump-stocks-ban-struck-down-court

I feel like the cop shot his dog or wife, and swept it under the rug. He certainly wasn’t going to see justice through the legal system.