Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who was fatally shot Monday after being the sole suspect in the Ohio State University attack, left a Facebook post minutes before the attack, reported ABC News.
The 18-year-old Artan wrote on a page that’s since been disabled three minutes before the attack: “I can’t take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that.” The post reportedly appeared in a photo of a computer with text on the screen. “If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace. We will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims,” he wrote. Artan named the American-born Yemeni imam Anwar Al-Awlaki, who the US accused of being an al-Qaeda recruiter and subsequently killed in a drone strike, in the post, calling him a “hero.”
The Ohio State attack left 11 injured after Artan reportedly hit people with a car and then got out and cut them. Authorities are still investigating a motive for the attack.
Artan, a OSU transfer student of Somali descent, was quoted in the school’s newspaper The Lantern three months ago. Back then Artan similarly talked about Muslims and being “scared” about being Muslim.
"I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I'm a Muslim, it's not what the media portrays me to be," Artan said. "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, so they're just going to have it, and it—it's going to make them feel uncomfortable."
