ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former college classmate of a Bangladeshi man accused in a foiled car bomb attack on New York City’s Federal Reserve said Thursday the allegations don’t square with the peace-talking student he befriended and routinely gave rides home from class.

Jim Dow said he was shocked to learn of 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis’ arrest Wednesday during an FBI terror sting in New York, just a few months after Nafis left Southeast Missouri State University after attending only the spring semester, having shared a physics class with Dow.