10:05 a.m.
Ohio State University says it will hold a vigil on campus as a way to begin healing after a car-and-knife attack on campus injured 11 people.
A student lights a
candle inside a cross during a vigil at Jacob's Porch, the Lutheran
Campus Ministry at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Monday, Nov.
28, 2016. A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car
into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began
stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death
by a police officer. (Barbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
The event Tuesday night will take place at the university's former basketball arena.Classes, meanwhile, have resumed after the attack Monday morning that investigators say was carried out by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an OSU student born in Somalia.
Police say they're investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.
The area of campus where the assailant's car plowed into a group of pedestrians before he began stabbing people was quiet and mostly empty Tuesday morning.
There were few signs of where the attack happened.
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9 a.m.
Officials say four of the 11 victims taken to hospitals after a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State in Columbus remain hospitalized.
A spokeswoman says two of the six people treated for injuries at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center remain hospitalized Tuesday.
A spokesman for OhioHealth Grant Medical Center and OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital says the three people taken to Grant were discharged Monday afternoon and the two victims taken to Riverside Methodist remain in fair condition Tuesday morning.
Authorities have said OSU student Abdul Razak Ali Artan purposely plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus Monday morning and then got out of his vehicle and began stabbing people with a butcher knife. He was fatally shot by a campus police officer.
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2 a.m.
Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror.
Authorities say the attacker deliberately plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus Monday morning, and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was fatally shot by a campus police officer.
The attacker has been identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan.
A motive is not known, but police say they're investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press Monday that Artan was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Classes at Ohio State are scheduled to resume Tuesday.
This August 2016 image provided by TheLantern.com shows Abdul Razak Ali Artan in Columbus, Ohio. Authorities identified Abdul Razak Ali Artan as the Somali-born Ohio State University student who plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a knife Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, before he was shot to death by an officer. (Kevin Stankiewicz/TheLantern.com via AP)
Roula Allouch, board chair of the Council On American-Islamic Relations,
left, speaks during a news conference regarding an earlier attack at
the Ohio State University campus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Dublin,
Ohio. A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a
group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing
people with a knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer.
(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, second from left, listens as Ohio State University President Michael Drake speaks during a news conference Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. (AP Photo/Juile Smyth)
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, second from left, listens as Ohio State University President Michael Drake speaks during a news conference Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a knife Monday before he was shot to death by an officer. (AP Photo/Juile Smyth)
Louann Carnahan, a neighbor of a suspect police are investigating into
an earlier attack at Ohio State University campus, speaks during an
interview, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John
Minchillo)
A car inside a police line sits on the sidewalk as authorities respond
to an attack on campus at Ohio State University, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016,
in Columbus, Ohio. Several were injured after a man plowed his car into a
group of pedestrians at the university and began stabbing people with a
butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer.
¿(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Police stand guard outside a residence of interest during their
investigation into an earlier attack at the Ohio State University
campus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John
Minchillo)
Police stand guard outside a residence of interest as a neighbor exits
his home during their investigation into an earlier attack at the Ohio
State University campus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP
Photo/John Minchillo)
Police stand guard outside a residence of interest during their
investigation into an earlier attack at the Ohio State University
campus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John
Minchillo)
Police stand guard outside a residence of interest during their
investigation into an earlier attack at The Ohio State University
campus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John
Minchillo)
Columbus police chief Kim Jacobs, center, speaks at a press conference
outside the Wexner Medical Center following an attack on the campus of
Ohio State University on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Nine
people were hospitalized after a man ran into pedestrians with his car
then exited his vehicle and began cutting victims with a butcher knife.
(Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
Student Nicholas Flores reacts to an attack on the campus of Ohio State
University on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (Adam Cairns/The
Columbus Dispatch via AP)
Students gather near the scene of an attack on the campus at Ohio State
University on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (Adam Cairns/The
Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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