At least 10 injured in US campus shooting

[webfact]

At least 10 injured in US campus shooting

Catherine Hardy

 

 

COLUMBUS: -- At least ten people are reported to have been injured in the US state of Ohio in an attack that was carried out by two assailants at Ohio State University.

 

Reports in the local media say the injured were both shot and stabbed.

 

One person is described as being in a critical condition. The others described as not in a “life-threatening condition”.

 

An alleged attacker has also been killed, according to officials

 

Is it still ongoing?

 

No.

 

The university says a shelter-in-place warning has been lifted and the scene is now secure.

 

The victims
 

The ten victims were taken to local hospitals, according to a spokeswoman from Columbus Fire Department.

 

One person was in a critical condition, the others are described as “stable”.

 

They are thought to have gun and knife wounds.

 

The attacker

 

Local TV station WBNS, citing law enforcement agencies, says a suspected attacker was shot dead.

 

How the attack unfolded
 

Local media say the attack began when a person armed with a gun and another individual with a knife got out of a sport utility vehicle at the university’s engineering building.
 

Official comment
 

Columbus police say they are assisting university law enforcement.

 

University representatives did not immediately return calls.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-11-29

[OMGImInPattaya]

Its almost certain the attacker was a Muslim immigrant from Somalia...and Hillary wanted to let in tens of thousands more of these folks and her supporters wonder why she lost.

Edited November 28, 2016 by OMGImInPattaya

[webfact]

Terrorism suspected in car-and-knife attack at Ohio State

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JULIE CARR SMYTH

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. Police said they are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.

 

Eleven people were hurt, one critically.

 

The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a U.S. official who wasn't authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI joined the investigation.

 

The details emerged after a morning of confusion and conflicting reports, created in part by a series of tweets from the university warning that there was an "active shooter" on campus and that students should "run, hide, fight." The warning was prompted by what turned out to be police gunfire.

 

Numerous police vehicles and ambulances converged on the 60,000-student campus, and authorities blocked off roads. Students barricaded themselves inside offices and classrooms, piling chairs and desks in front of doors, before getting the all-clear an hour and a half later.

 

Ohio State Police Chief Craig Stone said that the assailant deliberately drove his small gray Honda over a curb outside an engineering classroom building and then began knifing people. A campus officer who happened to be nearby because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and shot the driver in less than a minute, Stone said.

 

Angshuman Kapil, a graduate student, was outside Watts Hall when the car barreled onto the sidewalk.

 

"It just hit everybody who was in front," he said. "After that everybody was shouting, 'Run! Run! Run!'"

 

Student Martin Schneider said he heard the car's engine revving.

 

"I thought it was an accident initially until I saw the guy come out with a knife," Schneider said, adding that the man didn't say anything when he got out.

 

Most of the injured were hurt by the car, and at least two were stabbed, officials said. One had a fractured skull.

 

Asked at a news conference whether authorities were considering the possibility it was a terrorist act, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said: "I think we have to consider that it is."

 

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that while the bloodshed is still under investigation, it "bears all of the hallmarks of a terror attack carried out by someone who may have been self-radicalized."

 

"Here in the United States, our most immediate threat still comes from lone attackers that are not only capable of unleashing great harm, but are also extremely difficult, and in some cases, virtually impossible to identify or interdict," he said.

 

Ohio State's student newspaper, The Lantern, ran an interview in August with a student named Abdul Razak Artan, who identified himself as a Muslim and a third-year logistics management student who had just transferred from Columbus State in the fall.

 

He said he was looking for a place to pray openly and worried about how he would be received.

 

"I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what media portrays me to be," he told the newspaper. "If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."

 

In recent months, federal law enforcement officials have raised concerns about online extremist propaganda that encourages knife and car attacks, which are easier to pull off than bombings.

 

The Islamic State group has urged sympathizers online to carry out "lone wolf" attacks in their home countries with whatever weapons are available to them.

 

In September, a 20-year-old Somali-American stabbed 10 people at a St. Cloud, Minnesota, shopping mall before being shot to death by an off-duty officer. Authorities said he asked some of his victims if they were Muslim. In the past few years, London and other cities around the globe have also seen knife attacks blamed on extremists.

 

Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved, the campus police chief said.

 

The bloodshed came as students were returning to classes following the Thanksgiving break and Ohio State's football victory over rival Michigan that brought more than 100,000 fans to campus on Saturday.

 

"There were several moments of chaos," said Rachel LeMaster, who works in the engineering college. "We barricaded ourselves like we're supposed to since it was right outside our door and just hunkered down."

 

LeMaster said she and others were eventually led outside the building, and she saw a body on the ground.

 

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day.

 

The officer who gunned the attacker down was identified as 28-year-old Alan Horujko, a member of the force for just under two years.

 

The initial tweet from Ohio State emergency officials went out around 10 a.m. and said: "Buckeye Alert: Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College." University President Michael Drake said the warning was issued after shots were heard on campus.

 

"Run, hide, fight" is standard protocol for active shooter situations. It means: Run away if possible; get out of view; or try to disrupt or incapacitate the shooter if your life is in imminent danger.

 

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Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell and Eric Tucker in Washington, Collin Binkley in Boston and Mark Gillispie in Cleveland contributed to this story.

 

-- © Associated Press 2016-11-29

[coma]

Yes. A Somali Muslim immigrant. I hope this just strengthens The Trumpinator's and other world leader's resolve with regards to Muslims and immigration.

[DM07]

I think, the USA should really get rid of those, responsible for the overwhelming number of shootings and...oh...wait...


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[jm91]

39 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

Its almost certain the attacker was a Muslim immigrant from Somalia...and Hillary wanted to let in tens of thousands more of these folks and her supporters wonder why she lost.

It is absolutely certain that you have no idea what you are talking about. 

Geez..another mass murder in the USA and you want to talk political smack? 

 

You don't seem to have much sympathy. 

[Ahab]

16 minutes ago, Shot said:

 

It was a car/knife attack. The only person that got shot/killed was the attacker.

That is what the news in the USA is reporting. A Somali immigrant to the US (likely a Muslim), rammed his car into a crowd and then began hacking people with a butcher knife. The police fired the only shots and killed the man.

[coma]

13 minutes ago, jm91 said:

It is absolutely certain that you have no idea what you are talking about. 

Geez..another mass murder in the USA and you want to talk political smack? 

 

You don't seem to have much sympathy. 

 

Can you please explain how he has no idea what he is talking about ?

He has hit the nail right on the head. Just because that doesn't sit well with you own, what it would seem are apologist views, doesn't mean he is wrong or doesn't know what he is talking about.

 

Political decisions are what allows these mass murders to thrive in the country. So why not talk political after a horrible event such as this ?

[ezzra]

Anything added to this topic will only serve to reignite the age old issues with Muslims and terrorists, is there an answer or deterrents to such occurrences? not really..

so some will be labeled islamophobic, bigots and racists,  still they all have their rights for free speech.....

[SgtRock]

1 hour ago, jm91 said:

It is absolutely certain that you have no idea what you are talking about. 

Geez..another mass murder in the USA and you want to talk political smack? 

 

You don't seem to have much sympathy. 

 

Foot in mouth disease ?

 

There was no mass murder, the assailant was shot dead.

 

No, no sympathy whatsoever.

[Scott]

Troll posts and replies removed.   Please read the OP before posting.  

[Strange]

Can the OP Headline/Article be changed please? 

[Scott]

8 minutes ago, Strange said:

Can the OP Headline/Article be changed please? 

No, it can't.   We can't alter the headline from a source.   Sorry about that.  

 

People will have to read the article and comprehend it.  

 

Perhaps our expectations are too high.

[Dustdevil]

3 hours ago, Thechook said:

Another day and another school shooting in the U.S.

This was not a shooting. It was a Somali immigrant with a car and a butcher knife.

[Dustdevil]

What is wrong with you people? Haven't you been watching the news reports on CNN or BBC? There was no mass murder, there were no guns. As I write, it's already confirmed that it was a Somali immigrant with a car (ramming pedestrians) and a butcher knife. Nine people were injured. Wait to get the facts before you spew.

[Strange]

5 minutes ago, rabas said:

 

One killed, nine injured in campus shooting/stabbing/attempted vehicular mass homicide ?

 

The only shooting that happened was the 2 year rookie cop putting that sucker down before he hurt anyone else. 

 

Edited November 29, 2016 by Strange

[Usernames]

1 minute ago, Strange said:

 

The only shooting that happened was the 2 year rookie cop putting that sucker down before he hurt anyone else. 

 

There is a clear agenda at work across all media to hide the cause of this act of political terror and divert it to something that didn't even happen, "school shooting."

[Strange]

Just now, IAMHERE said:

Yes, doesn't take long even for a immigrant to adapt to the American way, must be very appealing, intuitive, and natural.

 

Read much? 

[Strange]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what media portrays me to be," he told the newspaper. "If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."

 

Um, so, you don't think its the actual terrorists that put that picture in their heads? 

[rabas]

10 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Yes, doesn't take long even for a immigrant to adapt to the American way, must be very appealing, intuitive, and natural.

Failure to adapt, accept, be inclusive.

[thaibeachlovers]

6 hours ago, jm91 said:

It is absolutely certain that you have no idea what you are talking about. 

Geez..another mass murder in the USA and you want to talk political smack? 

 

You don't seem to have much sympathy. 

It WAS a political attack by a Muslim immigrant.

A few of those before the election and Trump would have won a landslide popular vote.

I wonder if BLM will be demonstrating and calling this one unacceptable police violence against blacks?

Can we expect more student protests about how Trump is a bad person for wanting extreme vetting of Muslim immigrants?

 

 

[zydeco]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."

 

Sounds to me like he went after the wrong targets.

[Grubster]

3 hours ago, Strange said:

 

The only shooting that happened was the 2 year rookie cop putting that sucker down before he hurt anyone else. 

 

Yes and if the killer would have somehow missed the people with the car and been avoided by the people the BLMs would want this hero in jail.  Maybe they still will. They may say he could have wounded him.  I hope he is ok as it is never easy to kill.

[Grubster]

28 minutes ago, zydeco said:

 

Sounds to me like he went after the wrong targets.

Yes and I'm sure you would agree that the media has nothing to do with why I don't want people [who's religion tells them to eliminate me]  walking around on the same streets with me.  More fuel for Trump though and that may be a good thing. 

[Grubster]

I suggest a large public burial with him in a nice western suit complete with a big bacon necktie. 

[jesimps]

2 hours ago, Grubster said:

Yes and if the killer would have somehow missed the people with the car and been avoided by the people the BLMs would want this hero in jail.  Maybe they still will. They may say he could have wounded him.  I hope he is ok as it is never easy to kill.

BLMs? I'd call them BLTs, with the last word being Troublemakers.

[jesimps]

2 hours ago, Grubster said:

I suggest a large public burial with him in a nice western suit complete with a big bacon necktie. 

Most lefties would be more offended by you posting that than the terrorist trying to murder all those students. Lefties are more dangerous than the muslims because they encourage them with their support.

Edited November 29, 2016 by jesimps

[Grubster]

8 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Most lefties would be more offended by you posting that than the terrorist trying to murder all those students. Lefties are more dangerous than the muslims because they encourage them with their support.

Yes they are the enablers and I get sick when I see them in marches and stuff.  I sure hope I offend them.

[Americano555]

Maybe he was Michigan fan?

[gemini81]

11 hours ago, Dustdevil said:

What is wrong with you people? Haven't you been watching the news reports on CNN or BBC? There was no mass murder, there were no guns. As I write, it's already confirmed that it was a Somali immigrant with a car (ramming pedestrians) and a butcher knife. Nine people were injured. Wait to get the facts before you spew.

Correct. And as of now, no body no blood. Just images of sectioned off areas by police. Waiting to hear more on this....