FBI investigates possible Facebook ‘declaration’ by OSU attack suspect

Federal investigators are examining a Facebook post that may have been written by the Somali-born Ohio State University student who injured 11 people Monday.

(FOX)- He plowed his car into a group of pedestrians, then attacked bystanders with a butcher knife, law enforcement sources told Fox News.

Abdul Artan, 18, was shot and killed by a university police officer shortly after he began his attack.

One law enforcement source described the Facebook post, written earlier Monday, as a “declaration” against unfair treatment of Muslims. Fox is told that authorities believe the post was made by the same Abdul Artan behind today’s attack at OSU, but have not yet confirmed it.

ABC News reported that the post read, in part, “I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. … I can’t take it anymore.”

Law enforcement sources told Fox News that the FBI is combing through Artan’s digital history and devices to see if he had contact with any suspected terrorists and for any traces of terrorist propaganda.

One source told Fox News that Artan’s use of a car in the attack recalls a recent article in ISIS’s propaganda magazine Rumiyah, which included a blanket call to followers to mirror July’s mass casualty attack in Nice, France.

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