Nine people were sent to hospitals Monday after an attack at the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio.
University officials said one suspect is dead while nine victims are hospitalized. The Ohio State University chief of police said eight people are in stable condition and one is in critical condition.
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Police said the attacker used a vehicle and a butcher knife. Witnesses reported a car being driven into a crowd on campus. Officers were able to intervene quickly and take down the attacker, the university chief said. He said it all happened within minutes.
The suspect was shot and killed. He has been identified by the university as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was a student at Ohio State.
Artan was recently profiled in the Ohio State student newspaper, The Lantern, in a feature "Humans of Ohio State," in August.
Artan was quoted saying the following:
"I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what the media portrays me to be. 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, so they're just going to have it, and it — it's going to make them feel uncomfortable."
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