Shooting near Ohio mosque leaves 1 dead but was not connected to the building, police say

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A shooting successful a vicinity adjacent a mosque successful Ohio’s superior metropolis near 1 idiosyncratic dormant Monday but was not connected to the location of worship oregon those who were inside, constabulary said.

Federal and section authorities descended connected the country arsenic the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said successful a station connected X that agents were responding to a study of a shooting astatine the mosque, northeast of downtown Columbus.

Police aboriginal said the shooting happened successful the parking batch of an flat analyzable adjacent to the mosque.

“At the mosque, unfortunately, determination was an lawsuit going connected that had thing to bash with what was going connected outside,” said Sgt. James Fuqua. "... But it’s ace important that I marque it wide that this shooting had thing to bash with an onslaught connected the mosque itself.”

The ATF did not instantly respond to a telephone connection seeking further information.