A woman who went to her friend’s North St. Paul apartment to celebrate his birthday last month ended up beaten and held against her will for hours, authorities say.
The attack started around midnight on March 11 when the woman told her friend, Adena Ali Omer, 24, that she was going to head home after spending about four hours at his place, according to charges filed via warrant in Ramsey County District Court this week.
Omer became upset, according to the charges, and took her phone and pushed her to the floor. He refused to let her leave for the next 15 hours, repeatedly threatening and assaulting her, the woman told police, the charges said.
At one point, the woman ran to the bathroom, but Omer dragged her back to the living room by her hair and pressed against her throat until she passed out when she screamed, according to the charges.
When the woman regained consciousness, she tried to run out the apartment door, but Omer grabbed two knives from under a mattress, held one to the woman and another to his own throat, threatening to kill them both, according to the charges.
The woman sat with Omer on the couch for hours and eventually got him to calm down, according to the charges. The following day the woman convinced Omer to go with her to turn himself in to police.
After walking outside together, the woman ran to her car and locked the doors. Omer climbed on her hood and beat on her window until her windshield started to cave in, she told police, according to the charges.
She started to drive away with Omer on top of her vehicle and stopped in an intersection, hoping someone would call police. Then she kept driving until Omer fell off the hood car on Delaware Avenue, according to the charges.
The woman drove to the police station, where she was initially taken into custody for assaulting Omer. She was released after officers investigated the incident and found injuries on the women’s body and damaged to her vehicle consistent with her account of what happened, according to the charges.
Omer initially filed charges against the women in the case, but never showed up for follow-up interviews.
He was charged Tuesday with one count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, terroristic threats, and false imprisonment.
No attorney was listed for Omer in court records. He has no prior criminal history in the state.