Bill Foley (singer-songwriter)

On February 11, 2016, Mohamed Barry entered the Nazareth Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio and began to attack customers with a machete, injuring four. Barry, who was killed as he attempted to attack police officers with his machete, had been investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) four years prior for making radical statements. The attack is being investigated as a possible instance of lone-wolf terrorism.

Barry first entered the restaurant at about 5:20 p.m. and spoke to an employee. The nature of that conversation has not been revealed by investigators. However, NBC News reported that Barry asked the employee where the restaurant's owner was from. According to restaurant owner Hany Baransi, the employee told Barry that Barsani is from Israel. Barry left the restaurant afterwards and returned half an hour later, armed with a machete.

Barry immediately swung his machete to attack Debbie and Gerald Russell, both 43, who were sitting in a booth near the front of the restaurant. As the Russells attempted to defend themselves, 54-year-old Bill Foley, a musician performing at the restaurant and a friend of Baransi's, attempted to subdue Barry, using a chair as a weapon. Shafi Ali, an immigrant from Dubai and an employee of Nazareth Restaurant, then drove Barry off with a metal baseball bat. Foley, the Russells, and a third customer all suffered injuries from the attack. About twenty people were inside the restaurant at the time of the attack.

Barry fled the scene in a white Toyota Corolla and collided shortly thereafter with a Mercedes. The driver of the Mercedes called 9-1-1, explaining that he had just gotten into an accident, and that the other driver had a large knife. During the police pursuit, officers ran a routine search on the license plate number of the car Barry was driving; the search triggered an alert instructing the pursuing officers to contact the local terrorism task force.

The officers tried to execute a PIT maneuver to force his Toyota off the road, but it was unsuccessful. A second PIT maneuver succeeded, and the vehicle crashed into a street curb. As officers approached the vehicle, Barry emerged and lunged at them with the machete and a filet knife, yelling "Allahu Akbar!" He was first tasered by officers, but when this did not stop him, they fired their guns. Barry was shot repeatedly and died of a bullet wound in his neck.