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by NW Spotlight
Yesterday, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student of Somali descent, attacked students and faculty [2] at Ohio State University using a car and a butcher knife. He was stopped within minutes by a campus police officer with a gun – who fatally shot him.
The attacker used his car to ram a crowd of people – “sending bodies flying into the air.” He then went after people with a butcher knife, “swinging and slashing wildly with the knife.” Then, according to the Columbus Dispatch [2], OSU Police Officer Alan Horujko confronted the attacker and shot and killed him, just a minute after the start of the attack.
11 students and faculty members were injured and taken to the hospital.
The attacker had been featured in the campus newspaper [3] back in August, and was quoted as saying “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”
CNN reported [4] “The Ohio State University student who carried out a knife attack on campus Monday said in a Facebook post he was ‘sick and tired’ of seeing fellow Muslims ‘killed and tortured,’ according to federal law enforcement officials.”
BBC News is reporting [5] “The student’s motive is still not known, but terrorism is a possibility, police chief Kim Jacobs said,” and that the attacker was “said to be a Somali refugee.”
UPDATE 12/15/2016: Washington Post – Ohio State attacker, a refugee, should have been more thoroughly vetted, Senate Judiciary chair alleges [6]