Ohio State University to hold vigil after attack

Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs previously said at a news conference Monday they were considering the possibility of a terror attack.

The mosque just celebrated its second anniversary and serves mostly Muslims from Somalia and other East African countries, many of whom live nearby.

Classes resume today at the Ohio State University where an attack Monday left 11 injured and the suspect shot and killed by police.

While Artan had posted on Facebook minutes before the attack about his disagreement with US action in Islamic countries, university president Michael Drake opined that conclusions shouldn’t be prematurely drawn that the incident was an act of terror or related to Ohio’s Somali community. One of the Boston Marathon bombers and other terror suspects were found to have copies of al-Qaida’s online publication Inspire, known for an article called “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom”, authorities said. “I can’t take it any more”, Artan wrote in the first paragraph.

He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in security and intelligence.

Officials said 11 people were being treated at local hospitals for stabbing wounds and injuries from the motor vehicle.

The campus is Ohio State’s flagship, in the capital city of Columbus, with almost 60,000 students.

Michael Drake, OSU President, is urging people not to rush to judgment: “We don’t know anything that would link this to any community”. Artan had been living in Pakistan from 2007 to 2014. Eleven people were injured.

Tucker and Abdollah reported from Washington.

Three people remained hospitalized a day after the Monday attack.

Just minutes before an 18-year-old Somali college student used a auto and butcher knife to attack people on the Ohio State University campus Monday morning, he said in a Facebook post that he’d reached a “boiling point” and was “sick and tired” of seeing Muslims around the globe “killed and tortured”, law enforcement officials told CNN and NBC. Investigators say Monday morning a driver jumped a curb and plowed into several people near the school’s engineering building.

Sources told ABC News and the Associated Press that he is of Somali descent and is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity. It’s since been lifted, but all classes are suspended on the Columbus, Ohio campus.