The suspect of a stabbing attack at Ohio State University identified as a Somali man has been shot dead by police following the incident.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan (pictured below), who moved to the US in 2007 and became a legal permanent resident, injured eleven people on Monday before he was killed.
He rammed his car into pedestrians on the Columbus campus and hit some people before he got out of the vehicle and stabbed some others with a butcher's knife, police say.
The "injuries include stab wounds, injury by motor vehicle and other injuries that are being evaluated" and that "facts are still being verified," the OSU said in a statement.
"I saw one guy hit, he was kind of in the air because of the impact, flying off the bonnet," said OSU material sciences grad student Angshuman Kapin, who witnessed the assault.
He said around 80 people were on the sidewalk when Artan violently drove the car over the kerb.
OSU Officer Alan Horujko, 28, was the person who fatally shot Artan, according to officials.
"It helped the officer be in the right place at the right time, as he was able to see this whole thing happen and take immediate action," Columbus Police Chief Kimberley Jacobs said in a press conference.
Asked whether the attack was a terrorist incident, Jacobs said, "We have to consider that that’s a possibility."
The incident prompted officials to put on lockdown the university which has more than 64,000 students enrolled.
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