I know that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing a lot of questions and criticism over the hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in fraud that’s happened under his watch, but I hope that conservative media outlets and Republican lawmakers will grill the governor on what should be another huge scandal in the state: the fact that a 17-year old charged in two separate shootings this month was out on probation after pleading guilty to attempted murder just one year ago.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 17-year-old Jeairamiya Dewray Omar-Dear is accused of murder in a December 23 shooting, as well as three counts of assault for allegedly shooting at a Metro Transit bus in North Minneapolis just a few days earlier.
At the time of both shootings, Omar-Dear was on probation after pleading guilty to attempted murder for his role in the shooting of a man in November 2024 at a bus stop at Lowry and Emerson avenues N. in Minneapolis. The victim said he believed he was being targeted in retaliation for an earlier shooting.
The shooting happened 13 months ago, but Omar-Dear wouldn’t have been offered (or accepted) a plea deal right away. The deal apparently received no media attention at the time, so it’s unclear how long the teen has been on probation or if he was even sentenced to some time in juvenile detention for the crime, but even if a judge did sentence him to incarceration, it would have been an incredibly brief stay given the seriousness of the crime he admitted committing.
Walz has been stumping for gun and magazine bans for months in response to the shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis back in August, and gun control is going to be one of the primary focuses in his campaign for a third term as governor. But while Walz is going after lawful gun owners and attacking our fundamental right to keep and bear arms, violent offenders like Jeairamiya Dewray Omar-Dear are getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist for trying to kill someone.
This isn’t an isolated incident. Back in August, Fox 9 in Minneapolis detailed the escalating series of violent crimes allegedly committed by a 13-year-old who, like Omar-Dean, was also accused of a shooting at a bus stop in the Twin Cities.
The FOX 9 Investigators reported extensively on the crisis within the juvenile justice system as police encountered younger offenders committing more violent crimes including shootings, carjackings and armed robberies.
Law enforcement complained they were catching those juveniles only to have them quickly released by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.
Sarah Davis, Director of the Children and Families Division at the county attorney’s office, previously told the FOX 9 Investigators that kids under the age of 13 are often ruled incompetent due to their young age, which means they must be released from the detention facility.
“I never had a client under the age of 13 who was competent and who was found competent to move forward. And it is not a situation where it is optional,” Davis said.
Omar-Dean wasn’t deemed incompetent. He took a guilty plea to attempted murder, and the juvenile justice system essentially allowed him to walk away after he acknowledged trying to kill someone.
Tim Walz should be raising hell over a broken juvenile justice system that allows this to happen. Instead, he’s railing against our right to own the most popular rifle in the country and demanding that commonly owned magazines be banned as well. I know the news cycle generally only has room for one scandal at a time, but the light sentences and slaps on the wrist given to violent juvenile offenders under Walz’s watch deserves at least as much coverage as the rampant fraud that’s taken place during his time in office.
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