Shamir Nathann Black, Carjacking, Minnesota 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – In a brazen act of violence, 18-year-old Shamir Nathann Black has been charged with carjacking a woman outside her place of work in northeast Minneapolis, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

According to court documents, on June 9, 2022, Black approached the woman outside of her place of work and demanded her car keys. Black proceeded to push the victim to the ground and hit her on the head with a firearm. A bystander attempted to assist the victim but was also assaulted by Black. Black pointed his firearm at the bystander and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not discharge a bullet.

Black and an accomplice got into the victim’s vehicle, but surrounding witnesses pulled Black from the driver’s seat and put him on the ground. Black and his accomplice fled the scene on foot.

After arriving at the scene, officers with the Minneapolis Police Department located a Shadow Systems 9mm semiautomatic pistol wrapped in a gray sweatshirt. The firearm had been reported stolen in Prior Lake in April 2022. Investigators reviewed a social media video that showed Black waving around a handgun that matched the firearm recovered at the crime scene.

Further investigation revealed that a Volkswagen Jetta had been taken in a Prior Lake home burglary on the same night the firearm was stolen. Law enforcement later recovered the stolen Jetta from Black’s Minneapolis residence. On June 24, 2022, Black was taken into custody.

Black is charged with one count of carjacking. He made his initial appearance yesterday in U.S. District Court before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson and was ordered temporarily detained pending a formal detention hearing on June 30, 2022.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lauren Roso is prosecuting the case.

A complaint is merely an allegation and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The case is the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI, the Minneapolis Police Department, and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

Mandatory Facts: Defendant/Shamir Nathann Black, 18, is charged with one count of carjacking in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 9, 2022. Black is currently being held temporarily detained pending a formal detention hearing on June 30, 2022.

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