Ahmed Mohamed, 22, was booked into the Seattle Correctional Facility yesterday afternoon, Oct. 11, according to the King County Jail Register. His bail is set at $500,000, according to charging documents.
Mohamed and Jonathan Baquiring, 21, were charged with robbery in the first degree and malicious harassment in the May 25 attack of 16-year-old West Seattle resident Shane McClellan and warrants were issued for their arrest on Sept. 20.
“Now I can sleep a lot better,” Tim McClellan, Shane’s father said of the news that Mohamed was in jail. “Now we can finally have closure.”
Baquiring was jailed on Sept. 21 on $500,000 bail, according to the jail register, and police were searching for Mohamed until yesterday.
“It was still a little nervous knowing one guy was still out there,” Tim McClellan said.
Police spokesmen did not have further details on how Mohamed was apprehended as of Oct. 12, however in an earlier interview Lt. Norm James, operations lieutenant for the SPD Southwest Precinct said that police believed Mohamed may have left the state.
Baquiring has remained in King County Jail since his Sept. 21 arrest and is scheduled to appear in court for a case setting hearing on Oct. 18 at the King County Courthouse, according to Dan Donohoe, press secretary for King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Baquiring plead not guilty in his Oct. 4 arraignment.
Court dates for Mohamed have not been released at this time.
According to charging documents, Baquiring and Mohamed “committed the crimes of robbery, unlawful imprisonment, malicious harassment and assault” on May 25th when they robbed, beat, urinated upon and burned (with cigarettes) the victim over the course of five hours. According to police, during the attack the defendants said, “the white man has kept us down,” and “this is for enslaving our people.”
The attack garnered national attention due to its characterization as a hate crime. Further details on the attack and charges against Mohamed and Baquiring are available here.