An 18-year-old charged in a Minnesota homecoming shooting that wounded two teens and cleared the stadium was released on $100,000 bond with no conditions.
Gunfire cracked outside Eden Prairie High School during its homecoming football game on Oct. 2, wounding two teenagers and sending fans scrambling out of the stands. Police later identified the alleged shooter as Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, who was arrested nearly a week later and then released after posting bond.
Fox News reported that Adam left Hennepin County Jail at 7:04 p.m. on Oct. 10 after a $100,000 bail option with no conditions, and that he faces serious felony charges tied to the parking-lot attack.
The release came just two days after his booking. His next court date was set for Monday afternoon. For parents who watched a high school football night turn into an evacuation, the timeline is hard to ignore.
Charging details described by FOX 9 Minneapolis and reviewed in jail records lay out a fast, ugly scene. Two cars rolled into the parking lot. A fight involving about 10 people broke out. The driver of one car got out, opened fire on the victims, and fled.
Authorities identified that driver as Adam and said he was driving his brother’s car. The injured teens were 18 and 17 years old. Names of the victims were not released in the reporting.
Investigators said they tracked Adam’s phone with the vehicle before, during, and after the shooting. He then allegedly abandoned the phone and changed the number. A search of his St. Louis Park home turned up clothing that matched what the shooter wore on surveillance video.
That chain, phone movement, discarded device, matching clothes, is what police used to close the distance on a suspect who left a stadium full of families in panic.
On Oct. 8, officers boxed in a vehicle near Highway 55 and Penn Avenue in Minneapolis and took Adam into custody without incident. Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office detectives from the Auto Theft Task Force and the West Metro Drug Task Force worked with St. Louis Park and Hopkins officers on the stop.
Eden Prairie Police Chief Matt Sackett praised the multi-agency work after the arrest.
"I’m incredibly proud of our officers and investigators who have worked nonstop alongside our law enforcement partners to identify those responsible and hold them accountable,"
Sackett also said the homecoming investigation remains active, with additional arrests or charges possible. Regional public safety leaders have been meeting under Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension coordination to share intelligence and try to stop more shootings.
Eden Prairie police were separately looking at a shots-fired call at a Speedway gas station on Oct. 5. No injuries were reported there, and no connection to the homecoming case was identified.
Jail records list the case against Adam in plain terms. He faces two felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon.
Those are not minor paper charges. They describe a public shooting during a school sports event, with two teens hit and a crowd forced to run.
Yet Hennepin County jail records show a $100,000 bail or bond option without conditions. Adam posted it and walked out Saturday evening, Oct. 10. President Donald Trump’s Rapid Response 47 account seized on that decision.
"A Radical Left judge immediately granted him a no-condition bail,"
The account also pointed to police statements linking the violence to rival Somali gangs. The judge’s name and the full bail order language were not detailed in the available reporting, but the no-condition release itself is documented in the jail record.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya tied the homecoming shooting to a wider pattern she said Minnesota can no longer soft-pedal. She told Fox News Digital that residents increasingly feel under threat and that police are already naming the driver of the violence.
"Our law enforcement here are calling it out as the product of Somali gang violence, and we’ve got to identify it, and we have to find a way to deal with it,"
Police leaders across the metro have been sounding alarms about juvenile gang activity in the same period, including public criticism aimed at Somali juvenile gangs after mass gunfire. The homecoming case sits inside that broader public-safety fight, even as investigators continue to build out who else may face charges.
No explicit personal motive for Adam’s alleged shots was stated in the charging summary. What is stated is the sequence: cars, a fight, a driver who fired, two wounded teens, a stadium emptied, a phone trail, matching clothes, an arrest, felony counts, and then a no-condition bond.
A football game is supposed to be one of the safest rituals in American life. In Eden Prairie, it became a crime scene in the parking lot, with fans fleeing while two teenagers took bullets.
Police did the hard part. They tracked the phone, searched the home, boxed in the car, and booked a suspect on felony assault and armed riot counts. The justice system answer, within 48 hours of booking, was a six-figure bond with no conditions and a walk out the jail door before the next workweek’s hearing.
When shooters can clear a high school stadium and still post bond without conditions days later, the message to lawful families is simple: the rules are not matching the risk.
