Police: Ohio State University Attacker Was Somali Refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan (UPDATED)
by
Alex Griswold | 2:23 pm, November 28th, 2016
NBC News reports
citing multiple law enforcement sources that the name of the Ohio State University attacker is
Abdul Razak Ali Artan.
Police sources also say that Artan, who went on
a stabbing and vehicular rampage on Ohio State University campus Monday, was a Somali refugee who was enrolled at OSU as a student. Artan was shot and killed on the scene.
NBC’s
Pete Williams first reported on MSNBC that police “believe the person who was shot and killed who was responsible for the attack… was an 18-year-old student of Ohio State, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. who came to the United States as a Somali refugee.”
Other reports say that Artan
was 20 years of age, not 18. Local Columbus station 10TV reports that the car used in the attack was
registered to a Muhammad Ali, leading to some erroneous reports that Ali was the name of suspect in question.
Columbus, Ohio has one of the largest Somalian-American communities in the U.S. The
Somali Community Association of Ohio estimates that more than 38,000 Somali immigrants live in the greater Columbus area, the second largest concentration of Somali refugees in the country.
UPDATE (3:03 PM ET): Updated with the name of the shooter.