Just another lone wolf crazy with multiple knives, nothing to see here…
Via Columbus Dispatch (video at link):
A knife-wielding man who was shot and killed by airport police at Port Columbus yesterday first caught the attention of officers because of his odd behavior at an airline ticket counter and his illegally parked SUV, authorities said.
The man was identified by police this morning as 41-year-old Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed. Police said he tried to buy an airline ticket to an undisclosed destination with a woman’s ID.
That occurred shortly before the 1 p.m. shooting just outside the terminal that startled workday travelers and slowed but didn’t halt airport operations.
Imagine if he’d actually managed to get on the plane.
He also had bottles of frozen urine in his car.
Update:
Picture of Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed:
Abdul-Rasheed spent nearly a dozen years under court supervision in Cuyahoga County after he was charged with attempted murder and was found not guilty by reason of insanity…
Columbus police said they don’t know what prompted Abdul-Rasheed to arrive at the airport armed, it turned out, with knives.
They said there was no indication that terrorism was involved, despite the shooting occurring on a day when world news was dominated by a deadly terrorist attack at the offices of a French newspaper.
In June 2000, Abdul-Rasheed was found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of attempted murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, grand theft and gun possession. Police seized two 9mm handguns, a 5-inch knife and 227 rounds of ammunition….
Abdul-Rasheed had previously been convicted of felonious assault in Cuyahoga County for stabbing a man in 1995. He received a suspended sentence of five to 10 years and was put on probation.