DEVELOPING: Active shooter alert at Ohio State; 8 transported to hospital

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News and The Associated Press


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DEVELOPING: At least one active shooter was reported on the campus of the Ohio State University Monday and as many as eight people sent to the hospital, officials said.

"Run Hide Fight," the school tweeted at 9:56 a.m.

Campus police tweeted the same alert, and wrote in another tweet, “Continue to shelter in place. Avoid area of College.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Buckeye Alert: Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College.</p>&mdash; OSU Emergency Mngmnt (@OSU_EMFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/OSU_EMFP/status/803251348858753024">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
There was no official word on whether a shooting had taken place, but a Columbus Fire official told Fox News that eight people were transported to the hospital, with one in critical condition.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Police cars, fire truck and ambulance line 19th and College avenues near location where active shooter was reported <a href="https://t.co/FKJXSMQnan">pic.twitter.com/FKJXSMQnan</a></p>&mdash; The Lantern (@TheLantern) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLantern/status/803253398179082240">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The school's newspaper, The Lantern, indicated in a tweet that someone was down.

"There's at least one body bag present in front of Koffolt Labs," read the tweet. "OSU police still advising to take shelter. Situation not under control."

A police officer on scene later told The Lantern that the shooter is believe to be inside the Lane Avenue Parking garage on campus.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Heavy police presence at the Lane Avenue Garage. Officer on scene said the remaining shooter is believed to be inside. <a href="https://t.co/YN9m2mFYUV">pic.twitter.com/YN9m2mFYUV</a></p>&mdash; The Lantern (@TheLantern) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLantern/status/803267646582095876">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The school paper also tweeted that there may be a second assailant.

Tim Moody, associate editor of the Buckeye Sports Bulletin, tweeted that seven p[eople were taken to area hospitals, including one in critical condition.

One student who spoke to WBNS from her hiding place in a restroom said the situation was frightening.

“I’m a little shaken up at first,” Cydney Ireland told the station. "I do feel safe based off the room I’m in.

“It’s absolutely surreal,” she said.

The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest.

Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an OSU alum, said the school's police department is highly trained.

"People don’t need to panic,” he said, adding that those in hiding should stay put and switch their cell phones to vibrate.

A law enforcement officials tells Fox News that the FBI Columbus Field Office SWAT team has been activated, and is deploying to the campus to assist local authorities with the reported active shooting.

The ATF Columbus Field Division agents are also responding to the scene, the agency tweeted.

With nearly 60,000 students at its main Columbus campus, Ohio State is one of the nation's largest universities.

[Pony]

Texted a friend of mine there to make sure she was OK.

[Loser]

Shooter was shot. Black guy. Apparently another one was white with a machete. There's a pic of the shooter dead if you want me to post it.

[Loser]

Now they're saying two somalis, and one of middleastern descent.

One of the somalis shot dead.

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Dead guy
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[Loser]

Turns out there's no gun at all, he rammed students with his car and went after them with a butchers knife.

Dems wasted no opportunity in calling for more gun control...idiots :facepalm:

[deebakes]

but they beat michigan, why the anger? :idk:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

FOX News and The Associated Press


A Somali-born student at Ohio State University injured 11 people, one of them critically, on Monday when he attacked a crowd of pedestrians on campus in an incident one lawmaker said "bears all the hallmarks of a terror attack."

Authorities said Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, plowed a small gray Honda into the crowd outside Watts Hall, an engineering classroom building, just before 10 a.m. ET. Artan then got out of the vehicle and attacked people with a butcher knife before he was shot and killed by a campus police officer.

The officer, identified as Alan Horujko, 28, happened to be in the area because of a reported gas leak. Ohio State University Police Chief Craig Stone said Horujko arrived on the scene and shot Artan in under a minute. OSU Department of Public Safety Director Monica Moll said Horujko had done a "fabulous job."

In a statement, the university said that five of the victims had been struck by the car, five others had suffered lacerations or stab wounds and another person had orthopedic injuries. At least five of the victims were affiliated with Ohio State, either as faculty, students or staff.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’ <a href="https://t.co/OjucYxXcZo">https://t.co/OjucYxXcZo</a> <a href="https://t.co/0BSYW9Vy81">pic.twitter.com/0BSYW9Vy81</a></p>&mdash; The Lantern (@TheLantern) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLantern/status/803360266499067905">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Two law enforcement sources told Fox News that Artan came into the United States as a Somali refugee, and was granted status as a legal permanent resident.

In August, Ohio State's student newspaper, The Lantern, ran an interview with Artan, who identified himself as a Muslim and a third-year logistics management student who had just transferred from Columbus State Community College in the fall.

He said he was looking for a place to pray openly and worried about how he would be received.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nov. 28: Ten injured in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Columbus?src=hash">#Columbus</a> at Ohio State in an attack involving a car and a butcher knife. The suspect is a reported Somali refugee. <a href="https://t.co/6kV7ePyQim">pic.twitter.com/6kV7ePyQim</a></p>&mdash; Fox News Research (@FoxNewsResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsResearch/status/803342590770905088">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
"I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what media portrays me to be," he told the newspaper. "If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen. But I don't blame them. It's the media that put that picture in their heads."

The Columbus Dispatch reported that Artan received an associate's degree from Columbus State this past May before transferring to Ohio State. The paper said Artan was a logistics management major in the university's College of Business.

The Dispatch also reported that Artan lived in an apartment complex west of downtown Columbus. Neighbors told the paper that police and a bomb squad arrived at the complex around 11 a.m. Monday to secure the area. Local law enforcement officers reportedly are waiting for federal officials to arrive before searching the apartment.

Neighbors say Artan was always polite and attended daily prayer services at a mosque on the city's west side.

The motive behind the attack is still unclear, but law enforcement sources told Fox News the FBI was examining a Facebook post that may have been written by Artan earlier Monday. The post appeared to condemn U.S. military action in Muslim countries.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/OSUPOLICE">@OSUPolice</a> confirm Officer Alan Horujko shot and killed<br>the suspect, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, Monday morning. (OFFICER PHOTO ATTACHED) <a href="https://t.co/i1skmuLqCb">pic.twitter.com/i1skmuLqCb</a></p>&mdash; OSU Emergency Mngmnt (@OSU_EMFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/OSU_EMFP/status/803344452957958148">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Artan "may have been self-radicalized."

"While we are still awaiting more information from the investigation into the OSU attack, it bears the all of the hallmarks of a terror attack," Schiff said in a statement. "The fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda and other terror organizations and their global incitement to radicalism, must be carried out on battlefields far away, and by confronting online propaganda here at home."

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said late Monday that "we do not yet have confirmation of terrorist connections" to the attack. However, McCaul added "this is the type of indiscriminate violence our enemies are urging their followers to use against us."

Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the episode "a tragic attack" and said "our prayers are with them all."

Leaders of Muslim organizations and mosques in the Columbus area condemned the attacks while cautioning people against jumping to conclusions or blaming a religion or an ethnicity.

"It is particularly heartbreaking to see this random act of violence come to this community I hold so dear," said Nicole Ghazi, who is active in Islamic organizations and is an Ohio State graduate.

Angshuman Kapil, a graduate student, was outside Watts Hall when the car barreled onto the sidewalk.

"It just hit everybody who was in front," he said. "After that everybody was shouting, `Run! Run! Run!"'

Student Martin Schneider said he heard the car's engine revving.

"I thought it was an accident initially until I saw the guy come out with a knife," Schneider said, adding that the man didn't say anything when he got out.

In recent months, federal law enforcement officials have raised concerns about online extremist propaganda that encourages knife and car attacks, which are easier to pull off than bombings.

The Islamic State group (ISIS) has urged sympathizers online to carry out "lone wolf" attacks in their home countries with whatever weapons are available to them.

Surveillance photos showed Artan in the car by himself just before the attack, but investigators are looking into whether anyone else was involved, the campus police chief said.

The bloodshed came as students were returning to classes following the Thanksgiving break and Ohio State's football victory over rival Michigan that brought more than 100,000 fans to campus on Saturday.

"There were several moments of chaos," said Rachel LeMaster, who works in the engineering college. "We barricaded ourselves like we're supposed to since it was right outside our door and just hunkered down."

LeMaster said she and others were eventually led outside the building, and she saw a body on the ground.

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day.

The initial tweet from Ohio State emergency officials went out around 10 a.m. and said: "Buckeye Alert: Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College." University President Michael Drake said the warning was issued after shots were heard on campus.

"Run, hide, fight" is standard protocol for active shooter situations. It means: Run away if possible; get out of view; or try to disrupt or incapacitate the shooter if your life is in imminent danger.