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is one of hundreds of thousands of “refugees” Obama has brought into
the country. Obama is bringing on hundreds of thousands of more of them
before he leaves office.
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PICTURED: Somali refugee student who was shot dead after
mowing down Ohio State classmates with his car and slashing them with a
butcher’s knife – injuring eleven
- Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, has been identified as
the assailant behind a stabbing attack at OSU’s Columbus campus Monday
morning
- He has been described as a Somali refugee and student at the school
- Fire alarm was pulled at Watts Hall just before 10am and Artan reportedly mowed down evacuating students and staff with his car
- He then got out of the vehicle and started slashing victims with a knife
- Responding OSU police officer Alan Harujko, 28, shot Artan dead
- Police stormed a nearby parking garage looking for additional suspects
- Two men were taken from the scene in handcuffs, but police say they now believe only one attacker was involved
- At least eleven people have been injured – including one critical
- The shelter in place was lifted just after 11:30am
By Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:29, 28 November 2016 |
Abdul Razak
Ali Artan, 18, has been identified as the Ohio State student who went on
a stabbing rampage at the school on Monday, injuring eleven. The
student newspaper shared this photo of Artan today. It is from an
interview with him earlier this year
Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18,
has been named as the assailant in a rampage at Ohio State University
on Monday that left eleven people injured.
Artan is reportedly a Somali refugee who
fled his home country in 2007, moving first to Pakistan with his family
before coming to America in 2014 and gaining legal permanent resident
status.
While the motive for the attack is still
unknown, there are questions about whether Artan may have carried it out
in jihad, since Somlia is a Muslim-majority country. The country has
also become a haven for terror groups – including ISIS – since civil war
broke out in the 1990s. Columbus has one of the largest contingents of
Somali refugees in the U.S.
Artan was pictured by the school’s student
newspaper The Lantern on Twitter this afternoon. He was interviewed by
the paper back in August about his faith.
In the piece, he said that he struggled to
find a private place to pray to Mecca at Ohio State, after transferring
from Columbus State which had such facilities.
‘This place is huge, and I don’t even know
where to pray. I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared
with everything going on in the media.
‘I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media
portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know
what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen,’ Artan said.
A
knife-wielding man was killed on Monday after going on a rampage at the
Ohio State University. Above, a body is seen on the campus
The assailant –
identified as Abdul Artan – allegedly drove this car into crowds
evacuating Watts Hall after a fire alarm was pulled Monday morning
Artan then got out of his car and started stabbing innocent bystanders. Above, an aerial view of the car on Monday
Artan is
reportedly a Somali refugee who fled his country in 2007, moving first
to Pakistan with his family before coming to America in 2014 and gaining
legal permanent resident status. Above, Watts Hall on Monday
Police gather outside of Watts Hall on Monday, after the assailant was killed
At an afternoon press conference,
officials said there appeared to be only one knife-wielding attacker –
countering earlier reports of a shooting involving possibly multiple
assailants.
The chaos started just before 10am, when a
fire alarm was pulled at Watts Hall, home to the chemical engineering
department. As people were evacuating the building, Artan drove a silver
car jumped the curb and mowed down the crowds of innocent bystanders.
Alan Harujko, 28, (pictured) is the officer that shot the knife-wielding attacker dead
‘This car just swerved and ran into a
whole group of people,’ witness Nicole Kreinbrink told NBC. ‘All these
people were running and screaming and yelling.’
He then got out of the car and started
slashing victims with a butcher knife. A witness told CNN that Artan
remained silent throughout the attack but had a ‘crazed’ look on his
face.
OSU sophomore Jacob Bowers says he heard someone yell ‘he’s got a knife’.,
‘I saw a guy with a big-a** knife just
chasing people around. When I saw that, I grabbed all my stuff and
started running,’ Bowers told NBC.
When he looked back, he saw an officer –
identified as 28-year-old Alan Harujko – at the scene approaching the
suspect and yelling ‘Drop it and get down of I’ll shoot’. Soon after,
the officer followed through on his threat and shot Artan, killing him
at the scene.
After the incident at Watts Hall, police
investigated rumors of a possible second assailant holed up in a nearby
parking garage. SWAT teams stormed the building just before 11am and
minutes later two men were led out in handcuffs. However, officials now
say that they did not find any additional suspects in the garage. The
incident remains under investigation.
Just after 11:30am, the university lifted the shelter in place, but cancelled classes for the rest of the day.
An OSU police officer responded to the scene within a minute and shot the assailant dead. Above, Watts Hall on Monday
Students were
told to take shelter inside buildings while the situation was underway.
Pictured are some who barricaded the door to their room closed with a
pile of chairs.
So far, at least eleven people have been
transported to the hospital. One is in critical condition and the rest
are in stable condition. Six of the victims were transported to OSU’s
Wexner Medical Center, while three were taken to OhioHealth Grant
Medical Center and another two to OhioHealth Riverside Methodist
Hospital.
Two of the patients at OSU were being
treated for stab wounds and two for wounds due to being hit by the car.
As of 1pm, the fifth victim had just been admitted to the hospital,
after sheltering in place during the lockdown. That victim’s injuries
were still being evaluated.
The patients taken to Grant were being
treated for non-life-threatening lacerations from knife wounds while the
patients taken to Riverside were being treated for motor vehicle
injuries and are reportedly doing well.
Students were instructed to ‘run, hide and
fight’ in a tweet posted by the school’s office of emergency management
just before 10am.
‘Run, hide, fight’ is standard protocol
for active shooter situations. It means: Run, evacuate if possible;
Hide, get silently out of view; or Fight, as a last resort, take action
to disrupt or incapacitate the shooter if your life is in imminent
danger.
A high-ranking faculty member who spoke to
NBC 4 Columbus said that one of his colleagues was in Watts Hall at the time and was slashed in the leg with a machete.
SWAT teams later stormed the above parking garage, looking for a possible second suspect
Two men were
led out from the garage in handcuffs (above). However, police now say
they believe only the one attacker was involved
A member of SWAT searches a parking garage after an attack on the campus of Ohio State University on Monday
The school’s Office of Emergency Management published this tweet shortly before 10am.
Another student told the station that his
girlfriend was in the building when she heard gunshots and sought
shelter in a bathroom. It now appears that those gunshots may have been
the responding officer’s.
OSU sophomore Wyatt Crosher, 19, was across the street when he says he heard gunshots Monday morning.
He told
CNN:
‘My roommate and I heard about three or four gunshots from across the
street, and soon after we heard a bunch of police and ambulances pull up
across the street.’
He added: ‘We can’t see the building where
the shooting happened because of a dorm blocking our view. It truly
sounded like gunshots, and really soon after we heard a bunch of sirens.
We can see the police cars from our dorm.’
Police officers are seen sprinting after there were reports of an assailant on the Ohio State University campus
An officer and a police dog races to join the operation that took place in Columbus after an assailant was reported on campus
A heavily armed officer holding a large shotgun blocks the path and watches on during the incident at Ohio State University
A photo taken
by Ohio State University’s student newspaper shows a team of police
securing an area of the campus after the situation on Monday
A photograph taken by students on campus shows police officers, paramedics and firefighters on the scene Monday morning
A crowd of
students leaves the buildings surround Watts Hall at Ohio State
University, after police responded to reports of an assailant
Student Nicholas Flores reacts to an attack on the campus of Ohio State University on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio
Students gather near the scene of an attack on the campus at Ohio State University on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio
Students
leave buildings as police respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State
University, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State University is a public
university located in Columbus, Ohio. More than 58,000 students study
at the school’s main campus in Columbus and it is the state’s largest
employer.
Monday marked the first day back from
classes since Thanksgiving break. Many students were likely already back
at school, since the school’s football team played the University of
Michigan at home on Saturday, beating the Wolverines 30-27 in double
overtime.
Facebook initiated a feature on Monday,
allowing students and locals to mark themselves ‘safe’ on the website,
to inform worried friends and relatives.
WAS OHIO-ATTACK INSPIRED BY ISIS? KNIFE AND CAR ATTACK HAS ECHOES OF GLOBAL ‘LONE WOLF’ TERROR
Last November
Faisal Mohammad, 18, stabbed four people at the University of
California, Merced, before being shot dead by cops. He was carrying an
ISIS flag in his backpack
Ohio-State University appears to have been
attacked by a sole suspect armed only with his car and a knife. Though
police are yet to speculate on a motive or rule out secondary armed
suspects who may have aided the assault, the morning rampage has
chilling echoes of ISIS-inspired terror attacks across Europe and the
U.S. which have used a lethal combination of cars and knives, rather
than relying on guns.
Last November, Faisal Mohammad, 18,
stabbed four people at the University of California, Merced, before
being shot dead by cops. He was carrying an ISIS flag in his backpack
ISIS terrorist Monamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
used just his truck to kill 84 in Nice by plowing into Bastille Day
crowds earlier this year
Wasil Farooqui allegedly tried to behead a
man in Roanoke, Virginia, and then stabbed a woman, shouting Allah
Akbar. He had previously tried to travel to Syria ‘for terror training’,
according to the FBI. He appeared in court on November 21 and waived a
preliminary hearing
In September, Dahir Adan, 22, slashed nine
shoppers at the Crossroads Mall in St Cloud, Minnesota. He was shot
dead by an off-duty cop and, according to witnesses demanded to know his
victims’ faith before attacking them
In August, ISIS claimed responsibility for
a machete attack on two female officers while five were injured in a
knife and ax attack on a German train weeks before
In the terror group’s Rumiyah propoganda
magazine – published in English in October – ISIS-inspired terrorists
were ordered to use knives in their attacks.
‘One need not be a military expert or a
martial arts master, or even own a gun or rifle in order to carry out a
massacre or to kill and injure several disbelievers and terrorize an
entire nation. Many people are often squeamish of the thought of
plunging a sharp object into another person’s flesh. It is a discomfort
caused by the untamed, inherent dislike for pain and death, especially
after ‘modernization’ distanced males from partaking in the slaughtering
of livestock for food and the striking of the enemy in war. However,
any such squirms and discomforts are never an excuse for abandoning
jihad.’
Back in 2014 ISIS figurehead Abu Mohammed al-Adnani
urged western sympathizers to carry out attacks using their cars.
‘If you can kill a disbelieving American
or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an
Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the
disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that
entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon
Allah, and kill him in any manner or way, however it may be. Smash his
head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with
your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison
him.’
The situation started outside Watts Hall on the school’s Columbus campus, just before 10am
Ohio Governor John Kasich tweeted Monday morning that his thoughts and prayers are with the college’s community
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