Mall terrorist was used steak knives during attack, FBI says.
(FOX)- The Islamic terrorist who wounded 10 people during a September attack at a Minnesota mall used a pair of steak knives to stab his victims in the head, neck and chest while frantic shoppers hid and workers struggled to close store gates, the FBI revealed during a Thursday news conference.
Dahir Ahmed Adan, 20, was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer who had been shopping at a Bath & Body Works as the Sept. 17 incident unfolded.
Video footage released by the FBI and tweeted out by a Minneapolis Star Tribunereporter showed Adan’s final moments, the extremist crawling in a pool of blood – still armed with a knife – toward Officer Jason Falconer. Adan, armed with a knife in each hand, previously had charged Falconer twice. Falconer’s shooting was deemed justified and he will not be charged, officials said.
“We are very grateful that off-duty police officer was in the mall that night,” St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis said.
Authorities believe Adan had been radicalized recently. They said he had flunked out of school and lost interest in his typical hobbies before turning more deeply to Islam.
The FBI was trying to unlock Adan’s phone and was still working to figure out if he self-radicalized or was radicalized by others.
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