Yes beyond any doubt God created evil. It says so in the Bible
Here on FR, I once argued that He doesn’t do evil, but, again, He says He does … in the Bible. That, too, was hard for me to accept at first.
I guess it’s a matter of perspective and it’s like someone else said about how you define “evil”. For me, it’s hard to accept that God would do any of the many things I think of as being “evil”.
But, otoh, I am reminded that, just as His Love and Mercy are like a fathomless abyss, so, too, are His Wrath and Judgment, as it will be when this time of mercy and grace is over and His Day comes.