Ohio State Jihad: Obama’s Muslim ‘refugee’ mowed down classmates and slashed them with butcher knife
This 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
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.’
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.
The situation started outside Watts Hall on the school’s Columbus campus, just before 10am
Read more:
- Watch NBC4 Columbus newscasts live
- Active shooter reported on Ohio State University campus – CNN.com
- WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports |
- 20-year-old Somali man believed to be dead OSU attacker – Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH
- 1 Suspect Dead, 9 in Hospital After Ohio State Car-and-Knife Attack – NBC News
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