00:00The FBI is helping police in Columbus, Ohio, investigate a machete attack in a restaurant last night right at the
00:08dinner hour.
00:09Four people were hurt. The suspect was killed.
00:13And CNN's Evan Perez joins me now with the details as to what happened.
00:17I'm sure people are wondering about terror, but what do we know, Evan?
00:20That's right, Ashley. The FBI is involved in helping the Columbus police investigate this attack at the Nazareth restaurant.
00:28It's a Mediterranean restaurant there. And one of the reasons for that is because there are some indications of perhaps
00:33a terrorism link to this.
00:35And so the FBI is helping them do that. They're going to look at the suspect's background.
00:38He is of Somali descent. He has a criminal background, including some drug arrests.
00:43And we're told that they have not made any determination yet that this is terrorism, but it is something that
00:50they're investigating.
00:51This all started, as you mentioned, around 6 p.m. yesterday.
00:54And what witnesses described is an attacker who simply walked in and started slashing people with a machete,
01:01people who were dining right near the door.
01:04The owner of the restaurant is an Israeli of Christian background, an Arab Christian background.
01:09And he thinks that perhaps the attacker was targeting the restaurant because of his background.
01:15He's not sure. But here's what he told the Columbus dispatch of what he saw.
01:21Somebody who has come in, checked out the place, asked about me, and I was told that he left,
01:29came back 30 minutes later and attacked a person and then start slicing up people down the booths.
01:39And he got to one person that he hurt badly.
01:43And, Ashley, this all ended just about five miles away from the restaurant.
01:48The police were able to confront the attacker.
01:51They say he lunged at them with a machete and a knife, and they shot and killed him.
01:55Four people were injured there at the restaurant, one of them very seriously, Ashley.
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