'I don't want to go back with him': Setpfather confessed to police he beat boy to death Neighbor chillingly recalls 10-year-old's fear of returning home to stepfather, who hours later confessed to police he beat boy to death Friday, April 20, 2012 Ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud was running for his life down Sycamore Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a concerned neighbor stopped to try to help. Seeing the boy's stepfather chasing after him, the neighbor helped the man, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, catch up with the child. The boy didn't want to go home with Mohamud. "I told the boy, 'Daddy promises nothing is going to happen,'" the neighbor later told The Buffalo News. "The boy said to me: 'No, he always says that.'" Less than six hours later, Abdifatah was dead, brutally beaten, and his stepfather, Ali Mohamed Mohamud, was under arrest. The boy was tied to a chair with duct tape, a sock stuffed in his mouth, and he was beaten with a stick or blunt object in the basement of their Guilford Street home, near the Broadway Market, authorities said. The stepfather was angry because the boy, a fifth-grader at the International Preparatory School on Clinton Street, had fallen behind in his homework, law enforcement officials said. The neighbor, a mother of young children, sobbed as she recalled how she intervened, persuading the boy to go with his stepfather and even drivingthem back to their house. "Your daddy says everything will be OK," the neighbor recalled telling the boy, asking that her name not be published. "I may have been the last person to see that little boy alive." During the short ride home, she said, the stepfather offered repeated assurances that Abdifatah would be fine. "I told the boy, 'You go home, and if something does happen, you let me know tomorrow morning,'" the neighbor said. Mohamud, 40, a native of Somalia who has been in the United States for a decade, was charged with second-degree murder. Police investigators were shocked over the viciousness of the beating, according to Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who struggled Wednesday to find words to comment on the case. "Every homicide is bad, but it is particularly hard to deal with for first responders, police and others, when it is a 10-year-old child," Derenda said. "In talking to investigators, I was told it was one of the most grisly crime scenes that they can remember, and some have been here 40 years." Erie County Assistant District Attorney Thomas M. Finnerty, at Mohamud's arraignment Wednesday, told City Judge Diane Wray that Mohamud admitted beating his stepson to death. "The defendant admitted he tied up his 10-year-old stepson, admitted that he put a sock in his mouth, put duct tape over the mouth and beat him to death with a stick or similar blunt object," Finnerty said. Ferry Fillmore District Police Officer Christopher Fields, responding to a call from the boy's mother of a missing person, entered 30 Guilford St. at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday and searched the house. In the basement, he found the child's body, partially hidden under a blanket. Mohamud, a security guard who is employed by U.S. Security Associates and worked at The Buffalo News, fled from the house in a red Subaru Forester and called his work supervisor, asking him to meet him at the newspaper. The supervisor tried to find out what was wrong during the phone call, but Mohamud refused to say, according to a report the supervisor later filed. At 11 p.m., the two met at the newspaper, and Mohamud confessed to the killing, according to the supervisor's report. "I have a lot of problems and killed one of my kids," Mohamud told the supervisor, according to his report. Mohamud had come to The News to remove his possessions from his work locker, the supervisor reported. Police in the area spotted Mohamud's vehicle parked near The News building and approached the Scott Street entrance. The supervisor told police that Mohamud was in the building and led them to him in the locker room. Mohamud then stood up, and police handcuffed him. At Buffalo Police Headquarters, Mohamud cooperated with Detective Sgt. James Lonergan and provided police with a statement "indicating his involvement in the death of his stepson," Detective Chief Dennis J. Richards said. But none of this could comfort the neighbor who had tried to help the boy she spotted running down Sycamore with his school knapsack. "It wasn't normal," the neighbor recounted. "I was trying to pull over, but there was traffic behind me. Then I saw his father on the other side of Sycamore. He was running after him and trying to stop cars to get across the street and catch him." When the traffic had finally passed her eastbound car on Sycamore, she swung around and drove up to the stepfather, heading toward Jefferson Avenue. "I asked, 'What's going on?' and he said his son was running away and he was trying to catch him. He asked if I would give him a ride, and I did. He said he didn't want anything to happen to him. "We spotted the boy on Jefferson, and he was trying to jump over a fence. The father got out of the car and held him by the hand. The boy said to me he wanted to go to a family member's house on Auburn Avenue. "He said: 'I don't want to go back with him.' He would not sit in the back seat of the car with his father. He said he wanted to sit in [the] front seat next to me. I told him, 'You come home with me and we'll wait for your mother, or if you have the phone number, we'll call your family on Auburn.'" At that point, the neighbor, an immigrant from Africa like the Mohamuds, said the boy calmed down a little. By 5:20 p.m., she said, she had pulled up in front of the boy's house, and the stepfather and boy went inside. The neighbor sobbed Wednesday recounting the episode. Mohamud is married to the boy's mother, Shukri, and both have children from previous relationships for a total of six children, according to police, neighbors and acquaintances. Richards declined to comment on a motive, but neighbors said the father could be very strict, especially when it came to the youngsters doing their homework. "The father wanted him to study and study. He told me, 'I check his homework every night, and his grades are going down,'" said Tariq Butt, whose family watched Abdifatah's two younger siblings after their brother's body was discovered. Butt, an acquaintance of the Mohamud family, said the stepfather had confided in him that he was upset with Abdifatah for falling behind in his homework. "I always had this feeling that the father was strict," Butt said, and added that Abdifatah was a well-behaved youngster. Back on Guilford Street, as neighbors congregated throughout the day to discuss the death, Johnny Alexander, a longtime Guilford resident, offered this explanation for a killing that defied logic: "You just never know what's going on in people's homes." Mohamud is scheduled to return to City Court at 2 p.m. Monday for further proceedings. In the meantime, he is being held without bail in the Erie County Holding Center. lmichel@buffnews.com http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2012/Apr/23720/_i_don_t_want_to_go_back_with_him_setpfather_confessed_to_police_he_beat_boy_to_death.aspx

OdaySomali;820803 wrote: But its typical of the Somali people. Axmaqnimo waa u hiddo iyo dhaqan. Naxariis ma yaqaanaan. Hence why their country is in the state that it is in. Isuma naxariistaan, looma naxariiste e'. Easy with the generalizations.

K, my best offer two goats and my brother as your husband.

I am only poor African and can only afford two virtual goats..lol

Somalicentric;820836 wrote: LOL, you had me laughing

^Then they should bring them on board. The point is talks will be meaningless without those who are affected.

Considering the two men in questions hail from the communities affected by secession, they have role to play in any negotiations and how can Somaliland dictate who's on the other delegations?

rudy-Diiriye;820448 wrote: oh!! my bad...i forgot about shiekh sharmo!!o lol. Istaqfurulah..looooooooooool Rudy jinni mee ku dhaheen.

So much for art

Neighbors of dead child suspected issues at home By: Ryan Whalen BUFFALO, N.Y. — Neighbors of Abdifatah Mohamud said they were saddened Wednesday by news of the ten-year-old's death, but some said they suspected there may have been issues in the home. Buffalo Police responded to a missing person call Tuesday night on Guilford Street in Buffalo. There, they found ten-year-old Abdifatah Mohamud dead in the basement. "There were certain indication that the victim had been beaten and it was certainly a disturbing scene," Buffalo Police Chief Dennis Richards said. The boy's stepfather, 40-year-old Ali-Mohamad Mohamud, has been arrested and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second degree murder charges. In court, the prosecution said the boy had been beaten, his hands were bound, and there was a sock duct-taped in his mouth. "The defendant is alleged to have given a statement to the Buffalo Police. It's further alleged that he made certain admissions, which I'd rather not detail at this time," Assistant District Attorney Thomas Finnerty said. "It's simply too early in the process." Neighbors said Abdifatah had issues with his stepfather on several occasions. "The boy kept telling us stories how his father is always beating him up and how one day he called the police and came running over here to hide," Abdifatah's former babysitter, Joseline Furaha, said. "Lately, things just have been very upsetting down there. We don't know what it is, but you can feel something's not right when the child don't come out like it used to," neighbor Angelette Perry said. The child went to International Preparatory School in Buffalo. Neighbors said he was well-known in the community and was very smart. "He would come here and ask me to help with his homework and stuff. He would ask me about my school and like try to do my homework and he would kind of get it," Furaha said. "It's sad to know I'm not going to see this little boy playing with my nephew any more," Perry said. Ali-Mohamad Mohamud is scheduled to appear in court for a felony hearing Monday. http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/top_stories/581101/neighbors-of-dead-child-suspected-issues-at-home/

^It was rainy season when Kenya joined the fray.

Hello Bluelicious, I am gonna feed my ego and say it's not out of cooking book:D

Xaaji Xunjuf;820315 wrote: ^^ Qaar ba odhan doona Melez hada wu dhaartay oo wa ka dhab anaga maqlayney:D All I could say is they don't make Somalis like they used to.

Xaaji Xunjuf;820265 wrote: Soon return to Ethiopia just to come back as long as there is no trust among the Somali People and the leadership in Somalia remains weak they will just come back with the same story we are fighting terrorists and we are helping the government in Somalia, Xabashi Somali caawiyaa halkee lugu arkay dadkani ma haday dhasheen:D loool, no he promised they really won't come this time:D

I made one hell off spaghetti sauce today. Even I amazed myself,

Disturbing! Sick people

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Gheele.T...Don't reinforce his dictatorial tendency.

Self induced naivity

^Tricky though when his supporters constitute entire subclan.

^lool......sure buddy Soomaalida and grandiose delusions.

This is happening to every region of Ethiopia and recipe for this disaster considering the mass displacement.

Well known to who? Somalis inhibit large landmass which is sparsely populated apart from Southern Somalia.

AsadSL;820076 wrote: Beesha Uga weyn Somaliland ee Konturta iyo bariga Hargisea iyo galbeedka Burco have spoken. Have a listen. How did the census and determined they are beesha ugu weyn? It's politics mate. He got axed and life goes on.

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