Police shot and killed a Somali refugee as he was attacking students with a butcher knife outside a science building at Ohio State University Monday morning.The attacker praised a well-known al-Qaida terrorist on his Facebook page minutes before the attack, yet authorities said they were not ready to assign a motive.
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. ...