The sheriff’s office has scheduled a press conference for 10:30 a.m. today, November 5, at 700 W. 22nd St.in Merced.
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University senior Phil Coba, a student government representative, said numerous students told him that the stabbings started inside a classroom and continued outside before campus police shot and killed the attacker.
The note was recovered from Mohammad’s body during an autopsy. A second student was treated and released.
The school initially reported five people were stabbed, but later said the figure was four, said Lorena Anderson, a school spokeswoman. Sheriff Vern Warnke has described Price’s actions as heroic.
The construction worker and other student victim were treated and released Wednesday, the school said.
“Our first concern is for (the victims’) full recovery”, Chancellor Dorothy Leland said Wednesday.
But investigators found zip-tie handcuffs, two plastic baggies of petroleum jelly, a night-vision scope and a safety hammer – used to break glass – in a backpack left at the scene, Warnke said. He was fatally shot by UC Merced police. One student who knew Mohammad’s room mate said the suspect was “rarely ever in the room”.
About Mohammad having been the attacker, Velasquez said: “Why would someone want to do that?”
The four victims are expected to recover. Roads around the facility were blocked off. A statement from the school says that counseling is available 24 hours a day from the University of California Counseling & Psychological Services, call 209-228-4266 to speak to a counsellor over the phone.
Mohammad turned 18 last week and graduated in June from Wilcox High School in Santa Clara. Four were attacked before a construction worker happened across the incident and stopped the attack. Police shot and killed him. He said Mohammad was smart and got good grades.
He says the alleged assailant fled down two flights of stairs and outside, where he stabbed a female student and a female staff member.
The 18-year-old freshman responsible for yesterday’s stabbing spree at UC Merced has been identified as Faisal Mohammad of Santa Clara.
Police shot and killed Mohammad.
The campus, located 130 miles southeast of San Francisco, is scheduled to reopen Thursday afternoon so that faculty and staff can access their offices, except the Classroom and Office Building where the stabbings began, school officials said.
The campus in the city of Merced opened a decade ago and is the newest one in the University of California system. He says those inside shouted at him to run.
Mohammad was a freshman computer science and engineering major at the university. He plans to head back to work on campus, where he was helping remodel a waiting room. Police allowed students who live on campus to come and go, but a few anxious parents waited in their vehicles at the end of the closed main road enter to pick up their children.
This item has been corrected to show the TV station’s is KSEE, not KREE.
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UC Merced said via Twitter that all the victims were not students, correcting its earlier report.
