In the manifesto, the UC Merced stabbing suspect detailed plans that involved strapping students to desks with the zipties and using the petroleum jelly as a kind of booby trap that would cause a police officer responding to the stabbing, to slip and fall, thereby allowing Mohammad to seize the officer’s gun. That is a military-grade explosive, according to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke. Officials managed to recover all of them except for scissors.
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“There was absolutely nothing they could find that would indicate he was doing anything other than being a college student at UC Merced”, Warnke said.
Arreola also had class with one of Mohammad’s roommates, Andrew Vasquez, who she said was shocked by Wednesday’s events.
Authorities shot and killed Mohammad after a chaotic morning.
“I didn’t get a story from him, but it seemed like (Mohammad) tried to slash his throat”, Price said.
The stabbing victims’ injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, officials said. Classes went on as usual Thursday at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara.
Ish Patel said Thursday he met Mohammad in middle school in Santa Clara and was close friends with him throughout high school, but the two lost touch after graduation.
He says stabbing and plane to tie up hostages are highly intimate crimes, unlike school shootings in the past.
Not much is known of Mohammad, other than that he was a first-year chemical science and engineering major from Santa Clara. The attacker was later killed by police.
“At this point, it would be irresponsible to draw such conclusions based exclusively on the ethnicity of the suspect”, Leland said, without specifically identifying Mohammad’s ethnicity.
Price said he kept kicking at Mohammad to keep him from getting close enough to stab into an organ, yet even at a distance the mass stabber was able to slit portions of Price’s waistline. Bryan Price, a 31-year-old construction worker, heard the commotion and went to intervene.
“He also looked like he was having fun”, Price told the paper.
“I don’t know what his intentions were, but I don’t think it was very nice”, the sheriff said.
A Twitter account associated with the terrorist group ISIS praised Faisal Mohammad, 18, for the stabbing attacks carried out on November 4 at the University of California, Merced.
Police declined to elaborate if Mohammad has chosen his victims specifically or why he might have picked them.
The violence unfolded on Wednesday morning as Mohammad walked into a second-story classroom and attacked a fellow student with a knife, officials said.
Other law enforcement agencies have been brought in to help, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and university police from other UC campuses. He says those inside shouted at him to run.
Mohammad was angry because he’ had been kicked out of a study group, said Warnke, dismissing speculation that the freshman could have been motivated by anything political.
He says the suspect was shot and killed by police about 35 or 40 yards away from the Classroom and Office Building.
One student still was hospitalized Thursday, and a staff member who suffered a collapsed lung was recovering after surgery, the school said in a statement.
This item has been corrected to show the TV station’s is KSEE, not KREE.
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A college freshman smiled as he stabbed four people at a California campus before he was fatally shot by officers, one of the victims has said. Christopherson is back home in Fresno Thursday night after witnessing the dramatic end to the terror that gripped the campus on Wednesday.
