NH: Four arrested after brawl, gunshots at Concord wedding party (Somali gangbangers)

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Forgive me if already posted; I couldn't find it.

From the Caliphate of New Hampshire.

Four arrested after brawl, gunshots at Concord wedding party
By DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader   (EXCERPTED)
April 23. 2018 9:37PM


CONCORD — Four men who drove hundreds of miles to crash a wedding are facing charges after a weekend brawl that included an exchange of gunfire in a crowded parking lot at the reception.

Witnesses identified Salim Hussein as the man they saw shoot a pistol from a white Chrysler 200, which was rushing out of the parking lot at Bektash Temple when it was broad-sided by another vehicle early Sunday, police said. ...

Salim Hussein, 22, of Nashville, Tenn., and Jafar Kahalid Issak, 19, of Columbus, Ohio, were charged with reckless conduct and rioting; both waived their arraignment.

Prosecutors said Hussein drove from Tennessee and picked up Issak and three others along the way.  ...

Abdi Osman Mohamed, 18, of Erie, Pa., and Ali Dahir Hussein, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, were charged with rioting. Both waived their arraignment as prosecutors and the defense reached an agreement, setting bail at $2,000 cash/surety for each.

All four traveled together to the wedding, prepared and armed for trouble, Smith said.  ...

Why, oh why, would someone travel from Tennessee, Ohio and Pennsylvania to New Hampshire just to crash a wedding, you ask?

NH wedding parking-lot brawl traces back to Ohio street gang grudges
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader  (EXCERPTED)   
May 07. 2018 12:23PM

CONCORD — The parking-lot melee at the end of a Concord wedding — a chaotic event that included gunshots, fist fights and terrified guests fleeing into the woods — involved grudges and a street gang in the Columbus, Ohio, area, according to police investigating the April 22 event.

But two weeks after the Somalian wedding at the Bektash Temple in Concord, police said they don’t have an exact explanation for what happened. They are working with their counterparts in Columbus, home to one of the largest pockets of resettled Somalians in the country, to try to unravel what happened.   ...

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... Columbus is home to the nation’s second-largest enclave of Somali refugees, after Minneapolis, Minnesota. The refugees are resettled there and in more than 200 other U.S. cities by the United Nations in cooperation with the U.S. State Department and Catholic Charities. ...

Reasons for rise of Somali street gangs

Police in Columbus said several factors have come into play in the rise of Somali-dominated street gangs:

    *Somalis don’t forget tribal animosities just because they move to the United States, and at one point Columbus tracked 10 to 15 clans with histories of grudges and shifting alliances, said Khaled Bahgat, the New American diversity/inclusion officer for Columbus police. He added that those animosities seemed to have calmed in recent years.
    *Refugee families settle in inner-city communities, where youths find role models among street criminals. Recently, some Somalians have been robbing Columbus pharmacies and engaging in drug trafficking, Bahgat said. “Some, unfortunately, follow the path of whatever environment they’re in. Once they take that road, they become very bold. They feel like nobody can touch them,” he said.
    *When younger family members succumb to the lure of street crime, their strict, fundamentalist parents and older relatives shun them, which pushes them further toward delinquency, Bahgat said.

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I knew Somalis had invaded Minnesota but had no idea there was such a presence in Columbus. Yikes.

[Fishrrman]

Ain't diversity great?

Makes us such a better nation!  ;)