The Somali refugee who stabbed Ohio State University students with a butcher knife Monday praised a well-known al-Qaida terrorist on his Facebook page minutes before his attack, yet authorities say they are not ready to assign a motive.
Police shot and killed the man as he was attacking students outside a science building. Eleven people were transported to area hospitals with various injuries, according to the Columbus, Ohio, fire department.
The dead attacker was reportedly an Ohio State student – an 18-year-old Somali refugee named Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who left Somalia with his family for Pakistan in 2007 and obtained a green card to enter the U.S. in 2014. He reportedly lived near campus, CNBC News reported.
Artan was quoted in the campus newspaper, the Lantern, several months ago complaining about the school’s lack of Islamic prayer rooms.
“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media,” he stated. “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”
@voker57 senseless act of gun violence — это типа что менты его пристрелили?
@ckorzhik прими ислам, тогда не дать тебе гринкарту будет актом нетолерантной исламофобии
@ckorzhik беженцы остаются сидеть на пособиях и голосовать за демократов, а программисты только занимают рабочие места.
@ckorzhik Занимают же, на это же место на это же время можно было какого-нибудь американского гражданина взять.