Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman

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Source: Merced Sunstar

The UC Merced student who wounded four people in a stabbing spree at the campus has been identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara.

Merced Couty Sheriff Vern Warnke confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old student to the Sun-Star early Thursday.

Mohammad was shot and killed by UC Merced police just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning as he ran from the two-story classroom building where investigators said his violent spree began.

Warnke said investigators, including the FBI, were still trying to determine the motive for Mohammad’s attack, which wounded two students, a female student advisor and a construction worker who was on campus for a remodeling project. The four suffered non-life-threatening injuries.



Read more: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/education/uc-merced/article43126323.html

[Abouttime]

1. Sad that in this day and age

This child could not get the mental health treatment he so desperately needed for the abuse heaped upon him by the sick twisted right wing mouth breathers in our society. In no way am I defending his actions but this kid was only 3 years old when the neocons launched the so called 'war on terror'. His entire childhood and young adulthood was filled with hate directed towards him and his family just for being Muslim and the crime of being named Mohammed. Can any of us imagine what this kid must have endured and what drove him to this act of madness?
We need to look no further than Ahmed Mohammed to see a blatant example of this kind of fascist hatred. A smart young man makes a clock and takes it to school, next thing he knows is he's an accused terrorist arrested and cuffed. Do we honestly think the same thing would have happened to a boy named Jimmy??
I seriously doubt it, but be named Faisal or Ahmed or Mohammed and society looks at you like you are a pariah about to go on a killing spree. It's no wonder his kid cracked, it's not his fault. It's ours, sad his oh so short life was wasted.

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2. You forgot the "sarcasm" thingy

Because at this time theres no information provided as to why this guy did what he did. he could just as easily be a jilted boyfriend as anything else.
And with all the ridiculous "zero tolerance" rules in schools, I DO see "Jimmy" getting sent home. Matter of fact, "Jimmy" got suspended from a school for chewing his pop tart into a poor shape of a gun!

[Yo_Mama]

9. Pop tart terrorism!!! Yes, that really happened. n/t

[Abouttime]

10. Some of you are pretty harsh

I was referencing the clock incident with Ahmed Mohammed. He was profiled as a terrorist suspect because of his name and race.
One can't deny young Muslim boys and men have been profiled since 9/11.
My point was this boy may have simply been pushed too far, obviously he had underlying mental issues. Issues that may have been made much worse by a constant feeling he is being profiled, or issues made worse by harassment because of his religion, name and race.
I'm not making excuses for this horrible attack, I'm just pointing out that we, our society in the USA profiles young Muslim men, this behavior of society at large Just may result in these kinds of attacks by driving some of these kids over the edge, even to the point of acting out like the 'terrorists' they see in the news, young Palestinians for example, see what happens when young men are treated as less than human?

[Mosby]

5. pop psychology at it's finest.

[Throd]

7. What utter horseshit.

[Yo_Mama]

8. I think you are assuming too much, when we all know nothing.

You are reacting to an internal stereotype.

[AngryAmish]

3. I'd bet he was a Tea Party member.

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4. Which keeps your record perfect nt

[Throd]

6. I'll take that bet.