Tnuza Jamal Hassan

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Tnuza Jamal Hassan is a 19-year-old former student at St. Catherine's University, in St. Paul, Minnesota, who is accused of setting a series of eight fires there, on the morning of January 17, 2018.[1][2][3] The fires were set over the course of several hours. No one was hurt, but one of the fires was set in a building that included a daycare center, and 33 children were evacuated.[4]

While a student, Hassan had drafted and circulated a letter that is said to have espoused disturbingly radical muslim beliefs.[4] The Police say she described how her letter frightened her roommates, who forwarded it to campus security.

According to newspaper accounts of the charging documents she said that after viewing the destruction of schools in Iraq and Syria, that she attributed to American military bombardment, she thought she should destroy schools in America.[4][5]

References

  1. Mara H. Gottfried (2018-01-17). "Former St. Kate’s student arrested after small fires set on campus". Twin Cities Pioneer Press. https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/17/small-fires-university-of-st-catherine-buildings-st-paul-campus-investigated/. Retrieved 2018-01-22. "Campus public safety officers worked with the police and fire departments to review security footage and identified a suspect entering various buildings. At about 1:30 p.m., the suspect was found in a lounge in Crandall Hall, a dorm. The woman, identified in a police report as Tnuza Jamal Hassan, was removed from campus at 2:35 p.m. and police arrested her on suspicion of first-degree arson." 
  2. Chao Xiong (2018-01-18). "Former student set fires on St. Catherine campus in retaliation against U.S. military intervention". Star Tribune. http://www.startribune.com/charge-former-student-set-fires-on-st-catherine-campus-in-retaliation-against-u-s-military-intervention/470144173/. Retrieved 2018-01-22. "No one was hurt in the incident that began about 11:40 a.m. with the first reported fire, and ended about 2 p.m. with Hassan’s arrest on campus. Ramsey County jail records show that she was arrested at the school’s Jeanne d’Arc Auditorium at 2004 Randolph Av." 
  3. Steve Karnowski (2018-01-19). "Prosecutors: Woman mad at US actions abroad set campus fires". ABC News (Minneapolis). http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prosecutors-woman-mad-us-actions-abroad-set-campus-52474887. Retrieved 2018-01-22. "A criminal complaint said Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, a former student at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, admitted to investigators that she started the fires on Wednesday, including one in a dormitory that housed a day care center. She's charged with first-degree arson." 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Child Porn to Pyromania: New Terror Cases in the US". Clarion Project. 2018-01-21. https://clarionproject.org/child-porn-to-pyromania-new-terror-cases-in-the-us/. Retrieved 2018-01-22. "No one was hurt in the fires, however one of the fires was set in a building that housed a daycare center. Thirty-three children, eight adults and 10-15 students were evacuated from that building." 
  5. Tad Vezner, Sarah Horner (2018-01-19). "‘You guys are lucky I don’t know how to build a bomb,’ St. Kate’s arson suspect allegedly said". Twin Cities Pioneer Press. https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/19/st-kates-arson-suspect-motivated-by-u-s-military-actions-charges-say/. Retrieved 2018-01-22. "A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college’s St. Paul campus told police she did it because she’d “been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing,” according to a criminal complaint filed Friday."