Iranian Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who graduated from the University of North Carolina this past December, rented the biggest SUV he could find and plowed into a group of students at a meeting place known as the Pit. His motivation?

Sources say Taheri-azar told police he was seeking retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Taheri-azar apparently told police he tried to rent the biggest SUV he could find to use in the attack.

Taheri-azar told police Friday, “If you want to know why I did it, go check my bed at my apartment.”

“He said it almost in a baiting type of way,” Carrboro police spokesman Capt. Joel Booker said.

By Friday afternoon, a police SWAT team had surrounded a Carrboro apartment complex where Taheri-azar lived. Taking no chances, heavily armed authorities blew open the door to his University Commons apartment. After several hours of searching the apartment, Carrboro police sounded the all-clear, allowing residents back inside late Friday evening. (source)

A press coverence is scheduled at 3 p.m. EST today.

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