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Five months later, arrested for murdering resident of the home
Took plea deal from Sarah George – original charge was attempted murder
Arrested 23 times as teenager, POI/Suspect in 34 other cases
By Mike Donoghue
Vermont News First
A Burlington gang member, who is awaiting trial on a murder charge, has been sentenced to 5 to 7 years in prison for firing nine gunshots into an occupied apartment on Riverside Avenue three years ago, records show. Eight people escaped injury.
Abdiaziz “Drill” Abdhikadir, 22, of Intervale Avenue has been considered one of the top poster children of what is drastically wrong with the Vermont Juvenile Court system, authorities have said.
Abdhikadir, also known as Abdi Abdi and Abdi Kadir, was linked to a juvenile gang in Burlington, police said.
Abdhikadir was due for an adult court trial on an attempted murder charge next month for the Riverside Avenue shooting. State’s Attorney Sarah George struck a deal that allowed him to plead to a reduced charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the Feb. 12, 2022 shooting.
The two sides agreed to a 5-to-7-year sentence, which Vermont Superior Court Judge John Pacht imposed during a hearing on Thursday afternoon.
Burlington Police said they collected nine bullet casings and two projectiles after Abdhikadir emptied a handgun into the Mubarak family apartment at 669 Riverside Avenue with eight people inside on Feb. 12, 2022.
It was five months later that Abdhikadir reportedly fired and killed Hussein Mubarak, 21, in the Old North End, police said.
They said Hussein Mubarak had left the Riverside Avenue apartment the evening of July 7 and was shot in the head near Luck Street and Intervale Avenue. He was struck about 7:40 p.m. and died before midnight, police said. Initial reports indicated that up to five shots may have been fired.
It took Burlington Police several months before they collected enough evidence to charge him in the homicide.
Pacht also agreed Thursday to set the jury trial in that murder charge for January 12. It is expected to last 2 ½ weeks, Pacht said.
A review of Abdhikadir’s police involvement in the state computer system between 2013 and 2022, when he was 19, showed “he is designated as the arrestee 23 times by local law enforcement,” records show.
Those included three assaults, one burglary, one felony domestic assault, two driving while under the influence, three larcenies, two robberies, two possession of stolen property, two stolen vehicles and four violations of conditions imposed by judges, court records show. He also fled from a juvenile detention center in 2020, police said.
Besides his multiple arrests between 2015 and 2022, Abdhikadir has been a “person of interest” or “suspect” in 34 other incidents, police said in court papers.
Abdhikadir is now in adult court, where things could become a little more severe.
A bill passed this year extended implementation of the raise the age for Youthful Offender status in Vermont, because the state has no facilities or programs to handle young offenders.
Sarah George said during the hearing the Mubaraks were happy to get the shooting case resolved, but also knew it had the homicide case still ahead.
She said it brought “some sense of closure” by resolving the shooting.
Abdhikadir, who was dressed in a green prison uniform with shackles on his ankles, answered questions, but said little during the hearing.
Defense lawyer Jessica Burke told the court her client was somewhat limited in being able to make comments about the Riverside Avenue incident because of the homicide charge still pending.
The Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department transported him back to the Northwest State Correctional Facility to continue his sentence. Abdhikadir is expected to get credit for time served since his arrest.
The Vermont Daily Chronicle reported that Mubarak was at last the sixth – and possibly the seventh – person with a drug crime record to die by gunfire in Vermont during a six-month stretch in 2022. The Chronicle warned the list of 7 cases might not be all inclusive.
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Categories: Burlington, Public Safety
What a joke, 5-7 years. I bet he will be out on the streets in 3.
Life is cheap in Burlington
What great diversity they are building in Burlington! Thank God this young man gets to enrich our community with his beautiful culture.
Comments like these make me think of racism. But heck, couldn’t possibly be the case because the comment was ‘liked’ by numerous others.
You can’t say that word! You can’t say GANG in Vermont. The Mayor of Burlington forbids that and forbids the police for saying that. You are in a major speech violation!!!!!! You will be taken off the internet for this kind of talk! It’s racist!!!
Extreme sarcasm off, however close to reality it may be.
Now see, you could be hands off, as the Governor has stated his position. But you could say, perhaps, just maybe we are going in the wrong direction. There in lies the rub, he tells everyone across the state to vote for Nicki Haley, including democrats such that Vermont doesn’t elect Trump in the Republican (his own party) primary, but he’s totally hands off on Burlington crime.
Matter of fact, he’s pretty much hands off on all crime.
Seems he must only be reading VTDigger and listening to VPR, not going to any major city or town in Vermont (his words) and seeing what is happening on the street either.
The state of Vermont was “hands off on EB-5 too, even though they were in charge of overseeing the money. Even though our state is in charge of overseeing the justice system, but….we’re hands off.
Can you see the similarities? It’s not by accident folks.
The Governor has his head in the sand. He is not a Republican, but an INDEPENDENT .
Totally Agree!!!
The downfall of VT began in the 70’s and slowly took over as it elected more and more incompetent liberals to office. The last competent elected officials of a major office in VT was peter Smith and Richard Snelling, now there is no one even close to acceptable. It is like almost everyone here has lost their reasoning ability.
Amazing what media-influenced, liberal peer pressure can do to convince “Vermonters” that if they vote for republicans, they are mean, nasty, fascist, racist, intolerant, white-supremacist bigots.
National downfall began in 1962 when voluntary school prayer was deemed unconstitutional, and God was officially told to get out of our schools and leave our youth alone.
How has that worked out for us?
ONLY 5-7 years? Tack on ONLY another 3-4 years for murder. That is about the speed of Sarah George.
If you going to act like a PoS Burlington VT is the place to do it.
Get out of jail free cards are issued when you set foot in town.
That failing , the judicial system is set up to give as many swings as the plate prior to any action can be or is taken.
BTV used to be civilized now just another haven to those who want to ensure your safety does not matter.
Another seventh-generation Vermonter who was tired of the quiet life that generations of family have built on their farm…
Oh ya, I recognize that name growing up in Burlington!
Are the State prosecutors, judiciary or Governor familiar with the Statute below? Twisting this law like a pretzel to put repeat, felonous offenders back on the street appears derelict of duty, willfull disregard for public safety, and violating the oath of office. Are we not under a public health and safety emergency when violations of the public Trust and safety is willfully and knowingly ignored? No jail beds inside Vermont? What about those multiple third party incarceration centers all over the country? Compassion for criminals – none for the victims or the public at-large.
Title 13 : Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 001 : General Provisions
(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 11)
§ 11. Habitual criminals
A person who, after having been three times convicted within this State of felonies or attempts to commit felonies, or under the law of any other state, government, or country, of crimes which, if committed within this State, would be felonious, commits a felony other than murder within this State, may be sentenced upon conviction of such fourth or subsequent offense to imprisonment up to and including life. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1995, No. 50, § 1.)
Melissa,
Notice the “may” in “may be sentenced.”
This “may” is the loophole these state employees, hired to serve us and ostensibly promote and uphold public safety, dyslexically read as “may not” and “shall not.”
Until the law is changed to “shall be sentenced,” we will continue to have rogue prosecutors and judges who are hellbent on destroying our society instead of improving it. This is what those who are trained under a Marxist communist, socialist worldview love to do: create chaos so the state can nullify the Second Amendment, take away our guns, and exert more and more coercive and restrictive control over we the people.
And the whole thing about not enough prison beds? How could this possibly be true when Vermont barely sends anyone at all to prison, especially habitual offenders?
I agree with your post. This largely impotent judiciary, fueled by a woke and wimpy legislature without the moral courage to administer needed retributive justice, has allowed those who should be in prison to be out on the streets to commit more and worse crimes.
How do we hold their feet to the fire to demand change?
Mellissa, These Soros backed prosecutors make strong use of the legal concept of ‘Prosecutorial Discretion’ where they have absolute say on if, when and how a crime is prosecuted.
As I relate – they twist the law like a pretzel – when SHTF occurs – plausible deniability and word play (witchcraft) semantics. They can have it their way – when will the collective say NAY. I’ll tell you when – it personally hits them like a 2×4 to the cranium – finances dwindling, job given over to a robot, ridden like a rented mule with no incentives and no income increase, higher and higher debt and taxation, robbing peter to pay paul, paycheck to paycheck, no savings. The howling, wailing, and gnashing of teeth will become unbearable – even then some still deny, deflect, and project. I question the motives by the law I was told and sold was by the People for the People. If it no longer applies, we are no longer a Republic per that law. I want my law school tuition and VSEA loan money back under consumer law fraud – bait and switch.
Very interesting concept of trying to receive a refund on your law education based on these actions, or inactions; that could catch on. Wonder if a RICO case of organized denial of income to defense attorneys by these NGO’s backing the prosecutors or the Dem Party could fly? It appears that it is being implied that if you don’t join us in our thoughts and desires you can not practice and provide Constitutional guarantees to either defendants or the general public, which as you know is a balance.
let’s see… This guy’s got a problem or two. If convicted he’ll serve 5 to 7 years in prison for murder. He obviously has no regard for human life. He needs to face life in prison or the death penalty. As a society, we are too lenient with offenders of all kinds, criminals murderers pedophiles you name it. This guy isn’t gonna change. He won’t be better after prison no matter how many classes he attends. This country needs to reinstate the death penalty. There needs to be some incentive against crime because clearly a hand slap isn’t doing it.
The names of these dangerous culprits sound very foreign…and very frequent.
Truth! My thoughts exactly.