4 stabbed, attacker killed at California university
4 stabbed, attacker killed at California university
MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A male college student burst into a morning class at a California university with a hunting knife Wednesday and may have killed his intended victim if not for the heroic intervention of a construction worker who ran into the room to break up the attack.
University of California, Merced student Justin Dick, right, hugs his sister Kristen as his parents Beth and Keith look on following a stabbing in Merced, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. An assailant stabbed five people at the rural university campus in central California before police shot and killed him, authorities said Wednesday. Justin was one of 15 students in the core class where the incident took place Wednesday morning. (Paul Kitagaki Jr.(Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP)
The construction worker and three others were injured, but all are expected to survive. The alleged assailant, described as a college student in his 20s, was shot and killed by campus police as he fled the scene at the University of California, Merced. Two of the injured had to be airlifted to nearby hospitals, and the other two were treated on campus. Authorities didn't release the name of the assailant or his victims. The incident began when the assailant used a knife to stab two people in a second-floor room around the start of an 8 a.m. class, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said.
A construction worker outside rushed into to check on the commotion, distracted the attacker and was also stabbed. Warnke credited the worker with saving the life of one of the victims. "I think he prevented this first student from dying," Warnke said during an afternoon news conference. "He didn't go in knowing that there was a stabbing taking place. He went in thinking there was a fight."
The Merced Sun Star identified the construction worker as Byron Price, 31. Price's father said he was treated and released from the hospital. Neither Price returned calls for comment to The Associated Press.
Warnke said the suspect fled the room after attacking the construction worker and ran down two flights of stairs to outside where he stabbed a school employee sitting on a bench. The suspect fled the building. He was shot and killed by pursuing campus police on a nearby foot bridge.
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Student shot and killed by police after stabbing four on UC Merced campus
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UC Merced freshmen from left, Kenji Israels, 18, Turner Dean, 18, Shayan Rostami, 19, and Tyler Belyen, 18, leave campus past a sheriff deputy after four people were stabbed Wednesday morning on the campus. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
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A male UC Merced student stabbed four people with a large hunting knife on the campus Wednesday morning before he was shot and killed by university police, authorities said.
The victims' injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, officials said.
The suspect’s identity is known to authorities but had not been publicly released because they were still trying to notify his family, said Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke. He spoke at an afternoon news conference where university and law enforcement officials described a chaotic chain of events that began in the Classroom and Office Building near the center of campus.
The attack began just before 8 a.m. in a second-story classroom, when the suspect stabbed a student, Warnke said.
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