The campus, 130 miles southeast of San Francisco, is scheduled to reopen Thursday afternoon so faculty and staff can access their offices, except the Classroom and Office Building where the stabbings began, school officials said.
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Warnke added that there was scripted dialogue in the plan that revealed what Mohammed planned to say to students and to police as his plot unfolded.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Department said it found the document written by 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad discussing his ejection from the study group at the University of California, Merced during an autopsy Thursday.
“We are in the preliminary stages of our inquiry, but based on the evidence gathered so far, including at the crime scene and at the suspect’s campus dormitory room, we have no reason to believe that this was in any way related to terrorism”. “His plan went haywire because people fought back, and that was his bad luck”.
Mohammad stabbed a student minutes after his general education class began Wednesday, then attacked a contractor who heard the sound of a scuffle and went to investigate, before running down a flight of stairs where he stabbed a second student and the adviser, officials said. It said that all victims remained conscious, but provided no details on their condition. Byron Price, the construction worker credited with preventing Mohammad from killing, said the teen looked scared.
“I just kind of kicked at him”, said Price, keeping the attacker from compromising his organs. “I wish we could have helped him before this”.
Amazingly, within a couple of hours, he was able to drive himself home. “He wasn’t highly involved on campus but he was a good student, he did well academically”.
A college freshman angered over his eviction from a study group planned to kill a police officer, steal a gun and shoot those who had evicted him, according to a document found on his body after police shot him dead.
However, the college moved to rule out a political motive on Wednesday.
University of California, Merced student Dolly Gonzalez, 20, is…
In the later news conference, Warnke stressed that focusing on Mohammad’s religious beliefs would be unfounded.
Jennifer Derico, a spokesman for the Santa Clara School District said: ‘This news comes as a shock to our entire community.
Mohammad turned 18 last week and graduated in June from Wilcox High School in Santa Clara.
“I never saw him walk with anybody” to class, he said.
“Every time I would try and say something, he would just ignore it”, Velasquez told local KFSN.
Despite his injury, he said, “I feel like what I did was right….”
One student told the student newspaper The Prodigy, that he was rarely ever in his room.
Warnke said there was also a handwritten list of items to put in the backpack.
‘They did detonate something.
“We had zero to indicate he was on anyone’s radar”, Warnke said. He runs and plunges the knife in her back and then her front.
“There is still nothing to indicate anything, and I mean anything, that this is other than a teenage boy that got upset with fellow classmates and took it to the extreme”, he said.
The campus was closed for the day and all classes were cancelled through Thursday.
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Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke named the suspect as 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad, a freshman majoring in engineering and computer science.
