One of the gunmen who attacked Dallas Prophet cartoon exhibition was Pakistani

Day after officials identified the two gunmen involved in shooting outside an event exhibiting the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Dallas, it has now emerged that one of the attackers was a Pakistani.

The Facebook page of gunman Nadir Soofi said that he graduated from the International School of Islamabad, in Pakistan, in 1998. However, his cousin said that he was born in the United States. The page also said that he attended the University of Utah, reported The Express Tribune.

The other attacker, Elton Simpson, on the other hand, was an American-born convert to Islam and was known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He had been convicted of lying to the agency in 2011 after he denied charges of planning to travel to Somalia for jihad. An FBI official said that agents were searching an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, where Simpson allegedly lived.

 

The two gunmen drove to the Muhammad Art Exhibit in the Dallas suburb of Garland as the exhibition was ending and opened fire at two officers.

They were shot dead after one of the officers, a traffic policeman, returned fire.

Garland police official Joe Harn said that the security officer who was with him was shot in the lower leg. He was treated in a hospital and then released.