Bayle Adod Gelle biography: 13 things about Eden Prairie, Minnesota man

Bayle Adod Gelle is a Somali-American man based in Eden Prairie, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. He is the father of Dolal Bayle Idd.

At 6:15 p.m. on December 30, 2020, Minneapolis Police Department officers Paul Huynh, Darcy Klund and Jason Schmitt fired at Idd, who was in a Chevrolet Cobalt with a female passenger, during a traffic stop at the Holiday Gas station near East 36th Street and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis, Hennepin County. According to the officers, Idd was a suspect in a felony and he fired at them first.

Idd died at the scene. After conducting an autopsy, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner listed the cause of death as homicide.

Both Gelle and his wife Nima F. Ade were born in Kebri Dehar, Somali Region, Ethiopia. They have seven sons and four daughters together.

Aside from Eden Prairie, Gelle has lived in other parts of Minnesota including Minneapolis and New Hope. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 1988, Ade gave birth to their daughter Ikram Idd.
2. In 1994, Ade gave birth to their son Mohamed Amin Bayle Idd.
3. In 1995, Ade gave birth to their son Dalal Bayle Idd.
4. In 1997, Ade gave birth to Dolal in Somalia. In the same year, he moved from Somalia to the U.S.
5. In 2000, Ade gave birth to their daughter Ilhan Idd.
6. In 2007, Ade gave birth to their daughter Hodan Idd.
7. In 2008, Ade gave birth to another son.
8. His son Dalal pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated robbery, first-degree assault, third-degree assault, fourth-degree assault and two counts of first-degree burglary on April 27, 2015 and sentenced to 160 months in jail on June 15, 2015.
9. In 2016, Ade gave birth to their son Abdullahi Adod Gelle.
10. On December 2, 2020, his son Mohamed was with second-degree murder. On December 11, 2020, his daughter Ilhan got married. On December 27, 2020, his son Dolal visited their family home in Eden Prairie then left.
11. On December 30, 2020, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies, while conducting a late-night search of their family home in Eden Prairie, pointed guns at him, Ade and three of their underage children and ransacked the residence without explanation before informing him and his wife that Dolal was dead.
12. On March 2, 2022, he attended a press conference with the Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence community organization at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in St. Paul.
13. He was 62 years old when his son Dalal allegedly fatally strangled his other son Abdullahi on September 12, 2023 in their residence in Eden Prairie.