Since Abubakar Sharrif’s death, staff from Mayor Miro Weinberger’s office, the Racial Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Office and the police department have been in touch with BIPOC and immigrant community members to discuss how best the city can support grieving and concerned residents, according to the mayor’s spokesperson.
The Burlington Police Department announced a second arrest in connection with the July shooting death of Hussein Mubarak in Burlington’s Old North End. Deon Mitchell, 19, of Winooski, was arrested Monday and charged with accessory after the fact for first-degree murder, police said in a Monday press release. Mitchell’s residence in Winooski is alleged to have been the “starting and ending point” for Abdiaziz Abdhikadir, who was charged last month with first-degree murder in the killing. In court documents, police allege that Abdhikadir left Winooski and entered Burlington’s Old North End via train tracks. Police allege he then shot Mubarak
The fatal shooting of Hussein Mubarak on Burlington's Luck Street and the arrest of Abdiaziz Abdhikadir revealed a largely unseen dimension of Burlington’s escalating gun violence problem. Amid the unprecedented spike in gunfire, families that came to Vermont to escape conflicts abroad are now losing children to violence in its endemic American form.