It just hit everyone: Man shot dead for driving into students in Ohio state university

A man plowed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was shot to death by an officer Monday morning, campus police said.

Eleven people were hurt, one critically, and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said police were looking into whether it was a terrorist attack. The FBI and other agencies joined the investigation.

"I think we have to consider that it is," said Jacobs.

Among those injured in the attack were OSU faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students.

Monica Moll, the school's public safety director, identified the suspect as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at OSU. Artan was born in Somalia and was a permanent U.S. resident, The Associated Press reported. 

Authorities said they were able to get photos of the suspect's vehicle driving onto campus and confirmed only one person was in the car.

The details emerged after a morning of confusion and conflicting reports that began with the university issuing a series of tweets warning students that there was an "active shooter" on campus near the engineering building and that they should "run, hide, fight."

source: cbc.ca