Body cam video released late yesterday shows the moment 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat alllegedly opened fire on Fargo, North Dakota, officers with an AK-47 and was ultimately shot and killed by an officer with a handgun.
Breitbart News reported that 23-year-old Jake Wallin, a Fargo officer, was killed in the ambush attack and two other officers, Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes, were wounded.
Officer Zachary Robinson, armed with a handgun, engaged Barakat, killing him.
Body cam footage captured the ambush attack:
On July 21, 2023, Breitbart News pointed to investigation findings that revealed Barakat had 1,800 rounds of ammunition with him at the time of the ambush attack, which occurred on July 14. He also had seven guns and a homemade hand grenade.
The cache of weapons and ammunition that authorities recovered from the car of a man who opened fire on Fargo, North Dakota, police officers on Friday, July 14 (North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation via AP)
The Daily Mail explained that Barakat was believed to be en route to attack a parade in Fargo when he decided to ambush the police officers instead.
Barakat, of Syrian origin, moved to the U.S. in 2012 seeking asylum.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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