Coroner Finds UC Merced Stabbing Suspect’s Manifesto

“He was a quiet student”, Santa Clara Unified Jennifer Dericco said at a Thursday news conference.

Warnke said officials found zip-tie handcuffs, a night-vision scope, a safety hammer and duct tape inside his backpack. Mohammad planned to bind the hands of students with plastic ties and then call police with a fake distress call. The result of the federal probe found “nothing to indicate political or religious motivations to what he did”. “He went in thinking there was a fight”, Warnke said during a Wednesday news conference.

“His eyes, I could see fear in his eyes”, Price told the Merced Sun Star.

The sheriff also said he praised Allah in his writings. “I just didn’t expect it to be him”.

According to Your Valley Central, Price was able to drive himself home from the hospital hours after being stabbed near his waistline-but he drove with “nine staples” holding the wounds together. He is now at home with his children and fiancée.

Price says he was stabbed but managed to kick the charging attacker, later identified as Mohammad. He was shot dead by campus police after a foot chase, officials said. His suitemate on the rural campus described Mohammad as a loner – even unfriendly – but said the violence was still stunning.

However, the college moved to rule out a political motive on Wednesday.

“They have ensured that counseling services are readily available to students, faculty and staff at UC Merced”, Napolitano said in a statement.

Mohammad was a freshman computer science and engineering major from Santa Clara, a Northern California community in the Bay Area.

“It kind of hit me that this all could have ended badly”, he said.

“He also looked like he was having fun”, Price, who was stabbed in the side, told the Merced Sun Star.

“He just didn’t really talk much”. And I never saw him walk with anybody.

A Fresno County bomb squad is testing a substance found in Mohammad’s backpack, authorities said.

‘They did detonate something. He runs and plunges the knife in her back and then her front. He added that Mohammad was smart and got good grades.

Classes the university’s 6,700 students were scheduled to resume Friday.

A construction worker, separately identified as Byron Price, 31, who was nearby heard the commotion and ran to what he thought was a scuffle between students, said Merced Sheriff Vern Warnke.

The construction worker and three others were injured, but all are expected to survive. One person remains hospitalized, and a construction worker is being hailed by authorities as a hero for drawing Mohammad out of the classroom where the attack began and rendering aid to the first victim in the stabbing spree.

It was not clear whether the other victims were students.

First responders rush to the campus in Merced, south of Sacramento.

The staff member who suffered a collapsed lung was recovering Thursday after successful surgery. She said the injuries to stabbing victims were not believed to be life-threatening. Campus police had caught up with the student. I was definitely surprised hearing that.