White House: Ohio State attacker ‘may have been motivated by extremism’

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Abdul Razak Ali Ratan, the suspect who died carrying out a knife and car attack on Ohio State University students Monday, might have intended to perpetrate an “act of terrorism,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday.

“There is plenty of available evidence to indicate that this individual may have been motivated by extremism,” Earnest said.

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