Police identify Ohio State attack suspect as Abdul Razak Ali Artan

By Alex Pappas

Published November 28, 2016 9:45pm ET

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Police identify Ohio State attack suspect as Abdul Razak Ali Artan — Abdul Razak Ali Artan told his school newspaper, the Lantern, in August that he was afraid to pray in public. (Photo courtesy of the Lantern, Ohio State University)

Police are identifying the suspect who used his car and a butcher knife to attack people at Ohio State on Monday morning as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at the university.

Artan was shot dead by a university police officer after injuring nine people in the attack, Monica Moll, the public safety director at Ohio State, said in an afternoon news conference in Columbus.

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