At 9:52 am first-year student Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove his vehicle into a crowd outside of Watts hall of Ohio State University where he began stabbing those around him with a butcher knife. He injured 11 students before being shot and killed by campus police officer Alan Horujko.

The university was on a lockdown for a total of 90 minutes after a campus wide alert was sent out. All classes were cancelled and students barricaded themselves inside offices, classrooms, restrooms, and their dorm rooms. The lockdown was lifted at 11:30 am.

According to law enforcement sources and investigators, the motive behind this malicious attack is still unclear. Police Chief Kim Jacobs has mentioned that the event may had been linked to terrorism.

Artan was a Somali refugee that identified as Muslim and that had been granted legal and permanent stay in the United States. He moved here in 2014. Friends and relatives called him "a good guy." This was his first semester at The Ohio State University after two years of community college.

Inittially it was assumed that the attack was put on by several attackers and that a gun was involved. It was later confirmed that there was only one suspect and he did not use a firearm in the onslaught.