Police Chief: St. Cloud Crossroads Mall Stabber Mentioned Allah, Asked Victim if He Was Muslim
September 18, 2016
A man entered a busy shopping mall in Minnesota and stabbed eight people while referencing Allah and asking at least one victim if he was Muslim, according to the St. Cloud police chief.
The news agency for ISIS released a statement claiming the St. Cloud attack and calling the unidentified suspect a “soldier” for the Islamic State. Authorities had not verified the claim.
The suspect – who has not been identified – was wearing a private security uniform and armed with a knife during the September 17 mass attack, according to St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson. The mass stabbing occurred around the same time that an explosion in Manhattan horrified and fixated the country.
“The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countrys belonging to the crusader coalition,” said the statement by Amaq Agency, the news agency for ISIS.
September 18, 2016
A man entered a busy shopping mall in Minnesota and stabbed eight people while referencing Allah and asking at least one victim if he was Muslim, according to the St. Cloud police chief.
The news agency for ISIS released a statement claiming the St. Cloud attack and calling the unidentified suspect a “soldier” for the Islamic State. Authorities had not verified the claim.
The suspect – who has not been identified – was wearing a private security uniform and armed with a knife during the September 17 mass attack, according to St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson. The mass stabbing occurred around the same time that an explosion in Manhattan horrified and fixated the country.
“The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countrys belonging to the crusader coalition,” said the statement by Amaq Agency, the news agency for ISIS.