Police Brutality / Individual record
Dahir Adan
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Dahir Adan in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-09-17 in St. Cloud, MN. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-515
- Incident date
- September 17, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- St. Cloud, MN
- Agency
- Avon Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 22
What happened
Dahir Ahmed Adan, 20, was shot and killed by off-duty Avon Officer Jason Falconer at Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on September 17, 2016. Security video and investigators reported that Adan entered wearing a security uniform and attacked shoppers with knives, injuring ten people. Falconer, who was shopping, confronted Adan inside Macy's and fired when Adan advanced toward him with a knife, ending the attack. Authorities investigated possible ideological motives, but did not establish an organizational link based solely on extremist claims of responsibility. The Stearns County Attorney concluded in October 2016 that Falconer's use of force was legally justified. The injuries to the shoppers and documented knife attack are indispensable context.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1898
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1462
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset