Per WRAL:

Taheri-azar is being held on a $5.5 million bond at the state’s Central Prison in nearby Raleigh. He was scheduled to make a first appearance in Orange County district court on Monday. … Poarch said Taheri-azar, who called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a street two miles from campus, is cooperating with investigators. The FBI has also interviewed Taheri-azar, but Poarch said he did not know if federal charges would be forthcoming.

Taheri-azar told police Friday they would find things inside his apartment in nearby Carrboro that would shed light on his motives, Poarch said. That led authorities to ask the State Bureau of Investigation to search the apartment with a bomb squad, but Poarch said they didn’t find anything dangerous.

Poarch declined to offer any additional details about what police found inside the apartment, but said Taheri-azar’s roommates have been very cooperative and are not suspects in the case.

This really could have been a lot worse. As it was, of the nine people Taheri-azar hit, only six spent time in the hospital for minor injuries.

As for my initial thinking it was related to the Mohammed cartoon in The Daily Tar Heel, my source yesterday close to the investigation had told me essentially that it wasn’t a coincidence that the attacker was Muslim and had rented the vehicle he used to try to plow people down in the Pit. But in thinking it was about the cartoon, I just assumed too low, as it were. From the article, Taheri-azar “told investigators he wanted to ‘avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world.'”

Thank God his own personal jihad failed.