Investigators have found evidence that the man who plowed a car into a crowd at Ohio State University Monday before stabbing several pedestrians with a butcher knife was inspired by ISIS propaganda, law enforcement sources told Fox News.
(FOX)- The sources did not specify what evidence was found, but investigators are inclined to believe that the attacker, 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan, was “self-radicalized.”
Artan also praised American-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as a “hero” and railed against U.S. interference in Muslim lands in a series of Facebook posts, officials said.
“America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim Ummah. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that,” Artan wrote on Facebook, using the Arabic term for the world’s Muslim community.
The posts from Artan’s account came to light after Monday’s violence, which left 11 people injured before Artan was shot and killed by a university police officer.
“Every single Muslim who disapproves of my actions is a sleeper cell, waiting for a signal. I am warning you Oh America!” Artan also said.
The posts were recounted by a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation but wasn’t authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.