Ohio State Victim Says Attacker Vowed to Kill Her
According to Special Agent Angela Byers of the FBI’s Cincinnati division, confirmed rumors that Abdul Razak Ali Artan “may have been inspired by ISIS” before he stabbed 11 people at the Columbus campus on Monday.
Local police union president Jason Pappas says university officer Alan Horujko (huh-RUJ’-koh) is on paid administrative leave.
“There are a couple of things, though, that we know”, he said.
Ilana Kramer, 22, was inside Smith Laboratory on West 18th Street, a three-minute walk from Watts Hall. Somali refugees often spend some time in Pakistan before coming to the United States, another official said. “The second we left the building, people were scattering”.
It took almost two hours before officials lifted the lockdown, and shocked students and staff began streaming out of buildings. The problem first surfaced in 2007, when more than 20 young men from Minnesota began going to Somalia to join al-Shabab, which is classified as a terror group by the USA government.
“This officer showed up, he was able to identify the source of the threat quickly because there weren’t other people around with superfluous handguns”, said Leidheiser-Stoddard, a member of the OH chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
Artan was not known to Federal Bureau of Investigation counter-terrorism authorities before Monday’s rampage, which ended with him being shot to death by police and 11 people injured.
During a press conference shortly before 1 p.m.
A union official says the officer who killed a man to stop an attack at Ohio State University responded according to his training and is grateful for the outpouring of support he’s received from fellow police and the public. “And that’s when the individual exited the vehicle”.
Trump correctly described Artan, who was killed by police, as a refugee originally from Somalia.
“Our officer was on the scene in less than a minute, and he ended the scene in less than a minute”, OSU Chief of Police Craig Stone. That would eliminate the threat of jail time if the offender has a legal permit to carry.
Authorities said late Monday a motive for the attack had not been determined and that the investigation is ongoing. Two others were at Riverside Methodist Hospital. A video of his graduation ceremony shows him jumping and spinning onto the stage and smiling broadly, drawing laughs, cheers and smiles from graduates and faculty members. All 11 are expected to recover.
But, what would happen if students and staff were allowed to carry guns on campus? Somali community leaders in Columbus meet frequently with federal law enforcement, and a mosque gives youngsters an outlet for their energies.
Toby Hoover, founder of Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, said she knew it would not be long before people began to connect the Ohio State attack with gun rights. The day after the attack, November 29, Mandel tweeted, “America was born and grew strong based on Judeo-Christian values”. In Columbus, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, a USA citizen born in Somalia, awaits trial on charges alleging he received weapons, combat and tactical training in Syria, then returned to the US with a plan to attack a military base or a prison.
Remember when Ohio Governor John Kasich DEFENDED Obama’s Resettlement Program? “I am grateful for the professional, coordinated response from first responders whose efforts helped effectively contain this incident before further harm could be done”.
Al-Awlaki has been cited as inspiration by numerous terror suspects over the years, including the brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon, the Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and, more recently, the man charged in bombings in NY and New Jersey.
OH is one of 18 states that prohibit concealed carry on college campuses.