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FBI: Minnesota Mall Attacker Newly Interested in Islam
Source: Associated Press
FBI: Minnesota Mall Attacker Newly Interested in Islam
By AMY FORLITI, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Oct 6, 2016, 5:44 PM ET
The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday.
"We were told (he) had not previously shown an interest in religion," but after 20-year-old Dahir Ahmed Adan did, he went from being a high academic performer to failing out of college "almost overnight," FBI Special Agent Rick Thornton said at a news conference in which authorities gave the public its first look at surveillance video of some of the Sept. 17 attacks.
"The totality of Dahir Adan's behavior and the actions suggest he may have been radicalized either with the influence of others or on his own," Thornton said.
The attorney for Adan's family, Abdulwahid Osman, said his parents and close family members did not see the behavioral changes that investigators described. "They believed he was doing as good as he used to do," Osman said. "That is not the son they knew."
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By AMY FORLITI, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Oct 6, 2016, 5:44 PM ET
The man who stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday.
"We were told (he) had not previously shown an interest in religion," but after 20-year-old Dahir Ahmed Adan did, he went from being a high academic performer to failing out of college "almost overnight," FBI Special Agent Rick Thornton said at a news conference in which authorities gave the public its first look at surveillance video of some of the Sept. 17 attacks.
"The totality of Dahir Adan's behavior and the actions suggest he may have been radicalized either with the influence of others or on his own," Thornton said.
The attorney for Adan's family, Abdulwahid Osman, said his parents and close family members did not see the behavioral changes that investigators described. "They believed he was doing as good as he used to do," Osman said. "That is not the son they knew."
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-provide-update-minnesota-mall-stabbing-probe-42606640
