Suspect Used Butcher Knife in OSU Attack

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More details are emerging on the Ohio State University Campus attack. A spokesman for OSU says a suspect in an attack on campus that injured nine people has been shot and killed. Ben Johnson also said Monday that injuries in the attack included stab wounds and being struck by a vehicle. A law enforcement official says that the suspect is believed to have initially struck people with a car before beginning to stab victims. There was no indication the suspect shot anyone. The details started to emerge after a morning of confusion and conflicting reports that began with the university issuing tweets warning students that there was an “active shooter” on campus near the engineering building and that they should “run, hide, fight.  Officials say none of the victims injured in the incident has life threatening injuries.  NBC News is identifying the suspect as 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan. NBC says he was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident of the United States, officials said. The Ohio State University officer who shot the suspect is identified as 28-year-old Alan Horujko.

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