ATTACKER INJURES 11 AT OHIO STATE, SUSPECT DEAD

COLUMBUS, OHIO A Somaliborn Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus, then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. Police said they were investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.

Eleven people were hurt, one critically.

The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to an official.

The FBI joined the investigation.

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.”

The warning was apparently prompted by what turned out to be police gunfire.

Ohio State Police Chief Craig Stone said the assailant deliberately drove over a curb outside a classroom building and that an officer who was nearby because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and shot the driver in less than a minute.

The identity of the attacker was not immediately released.

Asked at a news conference whether authorities were considering the possibility it was a terrorist act, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said: “I think we have to consider that it is.”