COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State administrator ignited an online firestorm by shaming students who were relieved classmate turned terrorist Abdul Artan was killed before he could kill others.

Stephanie Clemons Thompson, assistant director of residence life, posted a message to Facebook on her private page reacting to images posted by students online of Artan’s lifeless body after he was killed while attempting to slash students with a butcher knife earlier this week.

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Her comments were headlined with “DO NOT SHARE THIS POST.”

“Abdul Razak Ali Artan was a BUCKEYE, a member of our family. If you think it is okay to celebrate his death and/or share a photo of his dead body and I see it in my timeline I will unfriend you,” Thompson wrote. “I pray you find compassion for his life, as troubled as it clearly was. Think of the pain he must have been in to feel that his actions were the only solution. We must come together in this time of tragedy. #BuckeyeStrong #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName.”

Despite Thompson’s clear instructions, students shared her post. A lot.

The comments sparked outrage, and prompted some to call for Thompson’s termination. In the aftermath, Thompson deleted her Facebook account and she is avoiding the media, Inside Higher Ed reports.

“Stephanie Clemons Thompson used Facebook as a public platform to shame those who were grateful and relieved the terrorist was taken out so quickly, preventing even more unthinkable terror and destruction in his wake,” reads a Change.org petition signed by 1,631 people who want Thompson fired.

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“Because this man was taken out so quickly his goal of murder was foiled and his victims will live on. Stephanie Clemons Thompson, however, condemns this sentiment of relief by prioritizing the feelings of the terrorist over his innocent victims, their families, and the Buckeye community as a whole.”

The petitioners were also disgusted that Thompson attempted to link her missive to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Furthermore, bringing the group #BlackLivesMatter into her post as a defense to these heinous acts only further promotes the violent and racially divided rhetoric being flooded by our media,” the petition reads. “That racial divide goes against the morals and principals OSU stands for. Her actions, as an employee, reflect on the university.”

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Police contend Artan drove into a crowd of people on the Ohio State campus Monday morning, shortly after a fire alarm evacuated the building, then attempted to hack anyone in sight with a butcher knife he brought with him for the occasion.

Eleven people were injured in the attack, which ended when university police officer Alan Horujko shot the junior dead after repeated requests to stop the rampage, CNN reports.

Police believe Artan, who came to the U.S. from Pakistan with his family in 2014, was a radicalized Muslim. ISIS has also claimed it inspired Artan to take action.

An Ohio State spokesman told The Washington Post that Thompson’s Facebook post “clearly is not an official statement of the university and represents her own personal view.”

Faculty told the news site she’s received hate mail and death threats because of her comments.

“Stephanie Clemons Thompson, There is TROUBLED and Then There Are MONSTORS Who Choose to Murder People, Based On an Ideology!!! HIS PAIN?!!!” Twitter user he’sMYpresidentTRUMP posted.

Others took to the Ohio State newspaper’s website, The Lantern, to vent their frustrations.

“By using hashtags like #blacklivesmatter and #sayhisname, she is conflating someone who actively tried to murder his fellow students with black citizens who were killed unnecessarily by police officers. She is implying, if not outright saying, that the death of someone committing an act of terror aimed at students under her watch was wrong,” one person wrote, according to Inside Higher Ed.

“She has no place at a university where she is [in] a position of trust and responsibility. If a student came to her and said, ‘I’m thinking of hurting other people,’ would you trust her to communicate this to proper authorities and prevent potential bloodshed? I sure don’t! She would probably sit on the information in the name of inclusion.”

Still others, including Bowling Green State University professor Dafnia-Lazarus Stewart, are defending Thompson.

“Fired for what, exactly?” Stewart tweeted. “Being compassionate? Reminding the community that we shouldn’t gloat over someone’s death? Nope.”

“This is the kind of professional I want working with students on my campus, who uses whatever means at her disposal to support all students,” Stewart wrote.