Passenger on board. And football to farming. An nfl star to walked away from millions and then found new success on the field. Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from havana. Good evening. Well have coverage of a remarkable outpouring in the streets here today over the death of off with late details on todays bloody knife attack on the campus of Ohio State University. The suspect, who injured 11 people, after plowing his car into pedestrians, and then attacking people with a knife, was identified late today as a somaliborn, osu student. His rampage ended when he was shot and killed by police. The campus put on lockdown, leaving thousands confused and terrified. The fbi has joined the investigation and this terrorism. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest. We have several pedestrians struck by a vehicle. Reporter a chaotic scene at Ohio State University this morning. Shots fired, one down. Reporter students just getting back to class
Just landed in ohio. What information have you learned . Reporter within the last few minutes the ap confirming the suspects name is Abdul Razak Ali artan he is 18 years old a somali refugee he was living illegally in the united states, look at the scene behind me very active as police try to piece this together, figure out what caused this man to go through with this attack, it first came in as a reported shooting as more details started coming and we learned no shots were fired by the suspect, but he drove his car up onto the curb running into a crowd of people and then jumped out started stabbing people. A terrifying scene all of this going down before 10 00 am this morning as students were coming back from thanksgiving break a terrifying situation, listen to went through. It is not real. You go numb. It is not supposed to happen. Sorry. So, yeah. It is, it is scary. We barricaded ourselves in our rooms. Reporter a terrifying situation, take a look at this photo some students posted
Campus critically injuring one. We have information that says the suspect was a student at the university. It came as an active shooter called shots fired. People started running. People said dont go to campus. Police swarmed the campus after reports of a gunman on the loose. The university alerted students and staff tweeting active shooter on campus run fight. There were three gunshots. Around noon a student captured this cell phone video they shot and killed the scene secure. It turned out to be a man that police took down after he crashed his car into a crowd of people. And then, police say the we have a man running around cutting people. A male suspect drove the vehicle over the curb stroke pedestrians. He exited the vehicle and used a butcher knife to start cutting pedestrians. There were multiple injuries related to lacerations or cuts stab wounds from the butcher knife. Investigators identified the suspect as an osu student, abdul artan. Investigators continue to dig into his ba
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And the missing mom mystery tonight. Three weeks after she vanishes, then found by the side of the road, the new headline at this hour. Good good evening. And were just back from our weekend reporting from cuba, and we begin tonight with the breaking news right here at home. Shortly before 10 00 this morning, a campuswide alert going out at ohio state university. A suspect on the attack. The chilling warning in a tweet to run a Massive Police response. The fbi joining in. Students barricading themselves in classrooms with whatever they could find. The suspect had rammed his car into a crowd of students, bystanders, then taking aim with a butchers knife. There were multiple victims. The suspect was killed by an officer, and tonight, we know the attackers identity. Abcs alex perez, leading us off from columbus. Reporter tonight, a terrifying scene at ohio state is coming to life. Its just before 10 00 a. M. , the Authorities Say a male suspect in a car deliberately jumps a curb and plows