Burnsville Man Charged with Threatening Ex-Girlfriend

A Burnsville man has been charged with threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend and attempting to kick down her front door this week.

Faysal Ahmed Mohamed, 26, faces a felony charge of making terroristic threats, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He is also charged with fourth-degree criminal damage to property, which has a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called to a home on Monday on reports that Mohamed was kicking and damaging the victim’s front door, but had fled.

Police talked to the victim and two other people, who were “extremely agitated and upset” because Mohamed was on the phone with them and threatening them.

The victim said Mohamed had kicked her front door repeatedly, damaging the frame and hinge. The woman said she and Mohamed had been in a three-year relationship but had broken up about a week earlier, and that she was involved with someone else.

The victim said Mohamed shouted, “I know that [racial slur] is in there with you! I’m going to kill you and him!” while he was kicking the door.

Police tracked down Mohamed, who said the victim had called him earlier in the evening and asked him to “come home,” but when he arrived she wouldn’t let him in.

When police asked to check his cell phone to verify the phone call, Mohamed “changed his story” and said he’d received a text message from her, but that he had deleted it, the complaint says.

The cost of fixing the damage to the victim’s door was $159, according to the complaint. Mohamed was convicted of making terroristic threats against the same victim in 2010, a case that also involved damage to property, according to the complaint.

Mohamed is free on $40,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled for Oct. 24 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.