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A gunman who shot an Orthodox Jewish man walking to a Chicago synagogue in an incident that’s being described as a hate crime is an illegal alien from Mauritania.

22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, who ambushed the man and then reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” before a shootout with police, crossed over into San Diego last March where he was screened by federal agents and released into the country, according to law enforcement sources.

Sources told the New York Post that Abdallahi targeted the victim because of his religion in the ambush that occurred over the weekend in the Windy City’s West Ridge neighborhood where several synagogues are located.

The 39-year-old victim whose name hasn’t been released was wearing a kippah with the traditional Jewish head covering making him an easy target for the African criminal. He was struck in the shoulder and survived.

Abdallahi was still holding his weapon when police and first responders arrived at the scene and the shootout ensued with the perpetrator being critically wounded in the exchange, but not before he yelled the blood-curdling Islamic battle cry.

(Video Credit: ABC7 Chicago)

It was another shocking incident of anti-Semitism and one perpetrated by one of the violent foreign thugs unleashed on Americans thanks to the policies of failed “border czar” Kamala Harris, a sad fact of life in modern America, a country where criminals have been emboldened to prey on the innocent.

Abdallahi faces charges including attempted first-degree murder. Local Jewish leaders are calling for him to face hate crime charges due to the anti-Semitic nature of the attack.

Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago police say they “can’t discern a motive.”

The local media also downplayed the anti-Semitic nature of the attack.

“We have faith in God, but we are scared for us; this shooting a few days ago was not just another act of violence,” Chicago Rabbinical Council Executive Director Rabbi Levi Mostofsky said, according to the Daily Mail. “It wasn’t just another shooting on the streets of Chicago. When a visibly Jewish individual in an otherwise pleasant neighborhood is shot unprovoked on his way to synagogue, we are terrorized.”

Midwest regional Anti-Defamation League Director David Goldenberg called for police to “conduct a thorough investigation into the motives of these heinous crimes, and that charges be added as appropriate.”

“Saturday’s crime feels like a hate crime. Regardless of where the investigation lands, Chicago’s Jewish community has been rocked. And Saturday’s shooting is just the latest,” he said.

“Mauritanians are special interest aliens who are supposed to be subjected to extra DHS vetting due to security concerns & travel patterns. This man crossed illegally near San Diego, got released into US, somehow got a gun, and allegedly shot an Orthodox Jew in Chicago,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said in a post to X, raising serious questions about why the shooter was allowed to easily enter the U.S.

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