“I do remember it and it was committed by a Somali immigrant.”
No, it wasn’t.
Who did it? Status?
While false Facebook posts say he legally changed his name to Aranda,
birth records show he was born in August 1994 at University of
Illinois Hospital in Chicago. No name changes have been made to
the record, James Scalzitti, the director of communications at
the Cook County Clerk’s Office, told The Associated Press in an
email. Records also show Aranda was issued a social security card
in his birth name.
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:4622070001
He was Somali, but not an immigrant - the product of a Muslim Somali married to an American, who may have been Hispanic but was not Muslim. Aranda was the mother’s name, which he took legally later on, but his original name was a purely Somali one.
That said, I have no idea how he was brought up or whether he had any Islamic connections. I’d say he was just a loser influenced by imaginary grievances and he thought throwing a little white child over the balcony would show the world how aggrieved he was. (For what? US govt support for his entire family for years?) He got 19 years, so he was obviously not considered insane.
I think he should have gotten more but at least he got something, since this is Minnesota, where it’s surprising that they didn’t give him a medal.