Dolal Idd was a 23-year-old Somali-American man who was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Minneapolis police officers at approximately 6:15 p.m. CST on December 30, 2020, after he shot at them from inside the car he was driving.

Minneapolis police officers Paul Huynh, Darcy Klund, and Jason Schmit returned several rounds of gunfire, killing Idd at the scene.

[11][1] The Minneapolis police, citing video footage and witness statements from the incident, said officers returned fire in response to an initial shot by a civilian.

[24] Minneapolis police had shot at people 17 different times from 2015 to the end of 2019, killing a person in five circumstances,[5] most notably Jamar Clark, a black man, in 2015 and Justine Damond, a white woman, in 2017.

[29] In 2016, Idd had briefly enrolled at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota, for the spring semester, and he hoped to study computers or pursue a career as an emergency medical technician.

[3][29] At the time of the incident, family members said that Idd was not allowed in the house as he scared the young children who lived there, and he was believed to have broken in through the basement patio door late at night.

Idd was found asleep in the vehicle and in possession of drug paraphernalia and a loaded Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun that had been reported stolen out of North Dakota.

[45] In mid 2020, Klund was one of several city police officers that signed a public letter that condemned the murder of George Floyd and pledged to improve community trust.

[40] Idd, who the evening of December 30 was departing Hopkins, Minnesota, said he would meet the unknown buyer in the parking lot of a Holiday Stationstores in Minneapolis near the intersection of East 36th Street and Cedar Avenue.

[13] Schmitt arrived at the Holiday gas station at approximately 5:45 p.m. CST in an unmarked Chrysler Pacifica minivan while three other police squad cars were staged in a nearby alley.

[13] At 6:13 p.m. CST,[8] Idd arrived at the Holiday gas station parking lot in a white Chevrolet Cobalt, a sedan-style automobile, with a woman in the passenger's seat.

[8] After Idd ignored repeated commands from the police to put his hands up and exit the vehicle,[3][48][49] he raised up a handgun and pointed it at the black Ford Explorer containing Klund and two other police officers[46][1][13] and shot through his the driver's side window of the Cobalt that was rolled-up,[3][2][46] which shattered the glass[46] outward[1][16] with a puff of smoke,[20][51] and struck the Ford Explorer's hood,[8] which indicated that Idd fired at the officers.

The same provision was last used in August 2020 when false rumors of a police shooting led to violent rioting in downtown Minneapolis, and officials released a graphic video of a man committing suicide to inform the community about what happened.

"[53] Minnesota State Senator-elect Omar Fateh, whose district encompassed the Holiday gas station where the shooting took place, said in early January 2021, "This type of treatment for a bereaved family is inhumane and unconscionable.

"[64] Jaylani Hussein, executive director of Minnesota's Council on American-Islamic Relations, said on December 31, 2020, that the 27-second video released by Minneapolis police of Idd's death was "inconclusive".

Idd died of multiple gunshot wounds from the rounds fired by Minneapolis Police Officers Paul Huynh, Darcy Klund, and Jason Schmitt, according to the report.

[71] On June 28, 2021, the Dakota County attorney's office received from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension the full case file for the incident that led to Dolal Idd's death.

[60] Approximately 100[4] people gathered at the Holiday gas station near East 36th street and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis that night in below-freezing temperatures, arriving soon after the shooting incident, and stood opposite police officers who wore riot gear.

[18] Participants in the march, which was organized by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, did not condone Idd's actions, but felt the use of lethal force was unnecessary and that police were leaving questions about the incident unanswered.

[75] In an event organized by the Minnesota chapter of Black Lives Matter,[76] several hundred people gathered in downtown Minneapolis on January 9, 2021, for a rally that featured speeches, hand-drawn signs, and chants.

The rally turned into a march to the Tukwila Justice Center, where protesters also called for defunding the police by 50% in lieu of greater investment in the community and youth programs.

[77] On March 21, 2021, a group of demonstrators rallied outside the Saint Paul residence of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to call for greater transparency and an independent investigation of the exchange of gunfire that led to Idd's death.

Demonstrators were frustrated by the lack of new information about the investigation at nearly three months since Idd's death, and called for the release of all raw video footage from the shooting and search of his home.

[79][80] They were also a fixture at protests over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a black man, by white police officer Kimberly Potter on April 11, 2021, during a traffic stop in the nearby suburban city of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

[82] Family members of Dolal Idd and protesters held a march in Minneapolis on June 6, 2021, to seek answers in the case that had no public developments for the past several months.

They requested that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison review the case, called for release of all raw video footage from the shooting, and that an independent agency investigate the officers’ actions.

[79] On January 13, 2021, the police in Bloomington, Minnesota, obtained a search warrant to investigate Dolal Idd's possible connection to a shootout and homicide on November 30, 2020, allegedly committed by his brother.

Dolal Idd's 27-year old cousin, Abdi Bishar Mohamed, who was also arrested at the apartment building on November 30, 2020, and suffered gunshot wounds, was later charged with aiding an offender and illegal weapons possession.

[98][97] Eight days after Idd's death, on January 8, 2021, police officers in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale shot and killed Brian Eugene Andren, a 47-year old white man from Ramsey, Minnesota.

[102] On June 3, 2021, undercover law enforcement officers participating in a federally led task force shot and killed Winston Boogie Smith, a black man, during an attempted arrest in the Uptown area of Minneapolis.