Abdul Razak Artan, a Somali-born refugee, was shot and killed by a campus police officer after he used a car to run down pedestrians and then launched into a knife attack Monday at the Columbus, Ohio, campus. The violence left 11 people injured.

ISIS is taking credit for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a Somali refugee who should not have been in our country.

President-elect Donald Trump, who claimed during the campaign that large numbers of Somali refugees settled illegally in Minnesota, said on Wednesday that the Ohio State University student who went on a violent rampage at the campus should not have been in the US.

The Islamic State terrorist group called Artan one of its soldiers, but it was not immediately clear whether he had claimed allegiance to any group.


Artan came to the US in 2014 as the child of a refugee and was referred for a secondary inspection, but nothing abnormal was found, a US official told the Associated Press.

He lived with his mother in Ohio and was a legal permanent US resident.

President-elect Trump did not offer any specific policy proposals to changes in the nation’s protocol for admitting refugees from Somalia.

Trump, who has also sharply criticized US policy allowing Syrian refugees into the country, claimed during a Minnesota campaign rally that “faulty refugee-vetting” had allowed large numbers of Somali refugees to settle illegally in that state.

In June, three Somali-Americans were found guilty of attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. In September, a Somali refugee went on a stabbing rampage at a mall in Minnesota, injuring 10 people before he was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer.

There are about 126,000 people of Somali descent in the US as of 2014, according to the Census Bureau. The Minneapolis metropolitan area has the largest Somali community in America, and there is also a community in Maine.


Nicole Hernandez can be reached at nicole.hernandez@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @NRHSJax.