Ohio State Attacker Visited DC, Bought Knife

Artan specifically protested the killing of Muslims in Burma, where a United Nations official last week said a Muslim minority group was suffering violence tantamount to ethnic cleansing at the state’s hands.

The terror group’s statement mirrors those issued after similar “lone wolf”-style attacks, including a stabbing at a Minnesota mall in September and the San Bernardino shooting a year ago this week”.

The attacker, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was shot dead by an OSU campus police officer within minutes of driving onto a curb and hitting students and faculty with his vehicle and then jumping out and stabbing others with a butcher knife.

“If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen”, he said. He was a community college student in Columbus from 2014 to 2016 and transferred as a junior to Ohio State this semester.

The attack turns the spotlight on Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s calls during his campaign for a temporary halt to Muslim immigration while screening procedures are tightened.

Washington- ISIS militant group, through its official news agency Amaq, said on Tuesday that the perpetrator of Ohio State University (OSU) attack was one of its “soldiers”.

“According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population”.

Federal and local authorities have been grappling with the pervasiveness of Islamic State group propaganda.

Police have given no motive for the attack on the Columbus campus.

Kevin Stankiewicz, who interviewed Artan for Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern, in August, said he was sitting by himself waiting for a class on his first day on campus.

Authorities say Artan came to the U.S.in 2014 as the child of a refugee after living in Pakistan for years.

The investigation has revealed that Artan purchased a knife on Monday morning, hours before the attack on the OSU campus that left 11 students and staff injured.

“It all happened so fast”, Clark said, holding back tears when speaking of police officer Alan Horujko, who responded to the scene and quickly shot dead Artan, halting his attack.

“What we want to do is really unify together and support each other; do our best to support those who were injured in their recovery, and then allow the investigation to take place”. A man there who said he was a manager said he had not been contacted by law enforcement officials.

Artan’s mother said she didn’t know anything was wrong until police showed up at her door, said Hassan Omar, president of the Somali Community Association, relating an in-person conversation he had with the mother Monday afternoon.