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A4 U.S. NEWS
Tuesday 29 November 2016

Terrorism suspected in Ohio State University attack Lawyer: Driver likely
to plead not guilty
over fatal bus crash
Continued from Front hurt by the car, and at least possible to identify or inter- law enforcement officials
two were stabbed, officials dict,” he said. have raised concerns JONATHAN MATTISE
The details emerged after said. One had a fractured Ohio State’s student news- about online extremist Associated Press
a morning of confusion skull. paper, The Lantern, ran propaganda that encour- NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
and conflicting reports, Asked at a news confer- an interview in August with ages knife and car attacks, The driver in a Chattanoo-
created in part by a series ga school bus crash last
of tweets from the univer- week that killed six children
sity warning that there was will likely plead not guilty to
an “active shooter” on related charges, accord-
campus and that students ing to his lawyer.
should “run, hide, fight.” Defense attorney Amanda
The warning was prompt- Dunn said she anticipates
ed by what turned out to
be police gunfire. 24-year-old Johnthony
Numerous police vehicles Walker will plead not guilty
and ambulances con- if a grand jury indicts him.
verged on the 60,000-stu- Walker is charged with five
dent campus, and au- counts of vehicular homi-
thorities blocked off roads. cide. Police say another
Students barricaded them- count will be added for a
selves inside offices and child who died two days
classrooms, piling chairs after the Nov. 21 crash.
and desks in front of doors, Dunn said the accident
before getting the all-clear has been “devastating” for
an hour and a half later. Walker and his family.
Ohio State Police Chief “Although he stands ac-
Craig Stone said that the cused of wrongdoing, Mr.
assailant deliberately Walker is an innocent man
drove his small gray Honda Students gather near the scene of an attack on the campus at Ohio State University on Monday, in the eyes of the law until
over a curb outside an en- Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. proven otherwise,” Dunn
gineering classroom build- (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) said in an email. “We are
ing and then began knif- hopeful that the investiga-
ing people. A campus of- ence whether authorities a student named Abdul which are easier to pull off tion of this matter will con-
ficer who happened to be were considering the pos- Razak Artan, who identified than bombings. clude quickly, and that his
nearby because of a gas sibility it was a terrorist act, himself as a Muslim and a Surveillance photos family’s privacy will be re-
leak arrived on the scene Columbus Police Chief Kim third-year logistics man- showed Artan in the car by spected as this case pro-
and shot the driver in less Jacobs said: “I think we agement student who had himself just before the at- gresses.”
than a minute, Stone said. have to consider that it is.” just transferred from Colum- tack, but investigators are Federal investigators said
Angshuman Kapil, a grad- Rep. Adam Schiff of Cali- bus State in the fall. He said looking into whether any-
uate student, was outside fornia, the top Democrat he was looking for a place one else was involved, the Walker had left the desig-
Watts Hall when the car on the House Intelligence to pray openly and wor- campus police chief said. nated bus route when he
barreled onto the sidewalk. Committee, said that while ried about how he would The bloodshed came as wrecked on a curvy road
“It just hit everybody who the bloodshed is still under be received. “I was kind students were returning while carrying 37 students,
was in front,” he said. “Af- investigation, it “bears all of of scared with everything to classes following the from kindergarten through
ter that everybody was the hallmarks of a terror at- going on in the media. Thanksgiving break and fifth grade. Chattanooga
shouting, ‘Run! Run! Run!’” tack carried out by some- I’m a Muslim, it’s not what Ohio State’s football victo- police suspect Walker was
Student Martin Schneider one who may have been media portrays me to be,” ry over rival Michigan that speeding. Police said a
said he heard the car’s en- self-radicalized.” he told the newspaper. “If brought more than 100,000 toxicology test showed
gine revving. “Here in the United States, people look at me, a Mus- fans to campus. Walker had no drugs or al-
“I thought it was an acci- our most immediate threat lim praying, I don’t know Classes were canceled for cohol in his system.
dent initially until I saw the still comes from lone at- what they’re going to think, the rest of the day. The of- The defense and prosecu-
guy come out with a knife,” tackers that are not only what’s going to happen. ficer who gunned the at- tion said Walker will appear
Schneider said, adding capable of unleashing But I don’t blame them. tacker down was identified briefly in court Tuesday in
that the man didn’t say great harm, but are also It’s the media that put that as 28-year-old Alan Horu- Hamilton County to delay
anything when he got out. extremely difficult, and in picture in their heads.” jko, a member of the force a preliminary hearing until
Most of the injured were some cases, virtually im- In recent months, federal for just under two years.q Dec. 15.

Fatal shooting suspect killed in shootout with deputies Students and administra-
tors had raised concerns
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — cording to Casey Rayborn Walker returned, running Under a standing agree- about Walker’s behavior
behind the wheel in the
Authorities in Baton Rouge, Hicks, a spokeswoman for over two people, includ- ment with the sheriff’s of- weeks before the crash.
Louisiana, on Monday re- the East Baton Rouge Par- ing a 17-year-old, before fice, the Louisiana State Meanwhile, over the week-
leased the identities of the ish Sheriff’s Office. stepping from his vehicle Police will investigate the end, grieving families be-
attacker and victim after Hicks said Peck was killed and opening fire, wound- shooting of the suspect. gan holding funerals for
a man fatally shot a wom- by Terrell Walker, 48, who ing one. The gunman then State Police Superinten- their lost children.
an, threw her body out of died after a shootout with drove off, crashing into dent Col. Mike Edmon- The funeral for 9-year-old
a car and then was killed sheriff’s deputies. an ambulance as he fled. son said a final report will Cor’Dayja Jones was held
in a shootout with sheriff’s Deputies said Walker shot Hicks said all of those in- be turned over to District Saturday. Ten-year-old Zy-
deputies. Peck and threw her out of jured are expected to re- Attorney Hillar Moore III, anna Janal Harris’ services
April Peck, 30, suffered mul- a car. cover. whose office will determine followed Sunday.
tiple gunshot wounds and While a group of passers- Walker was later shot by whether the shooting was The funeral for Zoie Nash, 9,
was pronounced dead at by stopped to help the deputies when he refused is scheduled for Thursday.q
a hospital Sunday night, ac- woman, deputies said to show his hands. legally justified.q