Man with machete shot and killed after injuring 4 people inside Ohio restaurant
A man who injured four people in a machete attack inside a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant Thursday evening was shot and killed by police following a vehicle pursuit.
Columbus Police Sgt. Rich Weiner said the assailant had a conversation with an employee of Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, then came back 30 minutes later and started attacking a couple in a booth. "Some of the patrons there started throwing chairs at him, just trying to get him out of there," Weiner told The Associated Press. "There was no rhyme or reason as to who he was going after."
The man eventually ran out of the restaurant and led police on a short chase. After he pulled over and got out of his car, officers tried to use a stun gun against him, but were unsuccessful. The man had the machete and another knife in his hand, and after he lunged across his car's hood at officers, he was shot and killed. The man's name has not been released, and the victims are all expected to recover. So far, there's no motive, and Weiner said "there's nothing that leads us to believe that this is anything but a random attack."
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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