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		</div><p>A police officer has been praised for shooting dead a man who drove his car into a crowd at Ohio State University and began to stab people with a butcher&#8217;s knife.</p>
<p>Officer Alan Horujko, 28, who started on the Columbus university&#8217;s police force in January 2015, was responding to reports of a nearby gas leak when the car mounted a campus kerb at 9.52am on Monday.</p>
<p>Officer Horujko ordered the attacker, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, to drop the knife and shot him when he did not obey the command, university president Michael Drake said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The officer encountered the individual by 9.53 &#8211; the subject was neutralised by 9.53,&#8221;</i> Mr Drake said, underscoring how quickly events unfolded.</p>
<p>Monica Moll, director of Ohio&#8217;s Department of Public Safety, said Officer Horujko was owed a debt of gratitude.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He did a fabulous job today,&#8221;</i> she said.</p>
<p>Columbus mayor Andrew Ginther called Officer Horujko an <i>&#8220;outstanding young law enforcement officer&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;There has never been a more dangerous or complicated and challenging time to be a police officer, and we had a dynamic well-trained professional today save the lives of many of our residents and students,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_100205" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-100205" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OhioStateUniversityCrimeSceneNov2016AP_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/OhioStateUniversityCrimeSceneNov2016AP_large.jpg" alt="Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement outside Ohio State University." width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-100205" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-100205" class="wp-caption-text">Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement outside Ohio State University.</figcaption></figure>
<p>University police chief Craig Stone said it was fortunate the officer had gone to investigate the gas leak, which helped position him to respond to the attack so quickly.</p>
<p>Eleven people were hurt in the attack and police are investigating whether it was terror-related. The FBI has also joined the investigation.</p>
<p>In recent months law enforcement chiefs have raised concerns about online extremist propaganda that encourages knife and car attacks, which are easier to pull off than bombings.</p>
<p>The Islamic State group has urged sympathisers online to carry out attacks in their home countries with whatever weapons are available to them.</p>
<p>Somalian-born Artan was a legal permanent US resident, according to a US official. Officer Horujko, who has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, appears to be an avid runner, with several half-marathons under his belt, according to online race results.</p>
<p>Ohio governor John Kasich praised the speed with which he and other officers acted, describing their action as <i>&#8220;an unbelievable, amazing and outstanding and heroic performance on the part of our first responders&#8221;.</i></p>
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