( CNN ) -- Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard hid in a `` panic room '' inside his home as a man wielding an ax and knife cracked the glass in the home 's front door , Danish police said Saturday . Police said a home alarm alerted them to the scene in Aarhus at 10 p.m. Friday , and they were attacked by the suspect when they responded . Police shot the suspect . Westergaard took his 5-year-old granddaughter into the `` panic room '' when he realized what was happening , Chief Superintendent Ole Madsen said . Westergaard , who has been threatened for drawing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad , is ordinarily accompanied by bodyguards when he leaves his home , but nobody was on guard at the house Friday , the Security and Intelligence Service told CNN . Police said Westergaard was `` being taken care of '' after the break-in , but would n't reveal his new location . The suspect , meanwhile , appeared in court Saturday , charged with attempted assassination , the Danish Intelligence and Security Service said . The suspect was shot in the right leg and left hand and hospitalized after the incident , police said . Video showed him appearing in court Saturday strapped onto a stretcher . Authorities did not identify the suspect because the judge decided it would be illegal to disclose his name , said Madsen , with the East Jutland Police . Authorities said he was a 28-year-old Somali who has legal residency in Denmark and lives in Sjaelland , near Copenhagen . The suspect was charged with the attempted assassination of Westergaard and a police officer on duty , the intelligence service said . The judge ordered the suspect held for four weeks while the investigation proceeds . Madsen said the man is the only suspect in the case , and he would not say whether police were investigating anyone else . Police had no indication that an attack was being planned on Westergaard , Madsen said , though the intelligence service said the suspect had been under surveillance because of his terrorist links . Danish intelligence officials said the suspect is connected to al-Shabaab , al Qaeda 's ally in east Africa . Al-Shabaab , the militant organization with alleged ties to the suspect , is waging a bloody battle against Somalia 's transitional government and is currently on a U.S. government list of terrorist organizations . At a news conference in the Somali capital of Mogadishu , al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said , `` We are very happy with the Somali national who attacked the house of the Danish cartoonist who previously insulted our prophet Mohammed . This is an honor for the Somali people . We are telling that we are glad that anyone who insults Islam should be attacked wherever they are . '' The incident `` once again confirms the terrorist threat that is directed against Denmark and against cartoonist Kurt Westergaard , in particular , '' said Jakob Scharf , spokesman for the Danish Security and Intelligence Service . Westergaard 's caricature of Muhammad -- showing the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse -- sparked an uproar among Muslims in early 2006 after newspapers reprinted the images months later as a matter of free speech . The cartoon was first published by the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in September 2005 . At the time , Westergaard said he wanted his cartoon to say that some people exploited the prophet to legitimize terrorism . However , many in the Muslim world interpreted the drawing as depicting their prophet as a terrorist . Over the years , Danish authorities have arrested other suspects who allegedly plotted against Westergaard 's life . After three such arrests in February 2008 , Westergaard issued a statement , saying , `` Of course I fear for my life after the Danish Security and Intelligence Service informed me of the concrete plans of certain people to kill me . However , I have turned fear into anger and indignation . It has made me angry that a perfectly normal everyday activity which I used to do by the thousand was abused to set off such madness . '' Scharf said authorities have taken measures to ensure Westergaard 's safety , and that the protection has `` proven effective . '' CNN 's Per Nyberg contributed to this report .
Somali man attacked home of political cartoonist , police say . Police say they shot suspect outside home of Kurt Westergaard . Westergaard known for controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad . Score: 6