Suspect in Calif. university stabbings angry over study group rejection

Classes have resumed at a California university two days after a freshman student stabbed and wounded four people.

“I really believe he’s a hero here”, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said of Price. He then planned to ambush the responding officers and take their guns.

Authorities say 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad of Santa Clara, California, burst into a classroom with a hunting knife Wednesday morning after being kicked out of a study group.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is thoroughly investigating this angle, Warnke said.

A student who stabbed and hurt four people at a USA university before being shot by police appears to have been motivated by personal animosities unrelated to terrorism or a political agenda, officials said today.

“There was nothing to indicate he was doing this because of Allah, or because he was going to be rewarded with 72 virgins, or because of ties to a terror group”, Warnke said. Authorities were investigating a motive.

Warnke said: “We had an upset teenager that was upset over being kicked out of a study group” for being disruptive.

According to UC Merced Facebook, a stabbing was reported at 8:02 a.m., near the classroom and office building on campus.

Warnke said Mohammad’s plan was written in English and referenced the Muslim god Allah several times.

Mohammad fled the room and stabbed two others- one in a stairway, the other on bench outside- before police shot him on a nearby pedestrian bridge. “I just didn’t expect it to be him”.

“There was a gruesome statement he made about wanting to cut someone’s head off and kill two people with one bullet, and he planned to shoot the police”, Warnke said.

Two victims were transported to a hospital while the others were treated on campus.

“Faisal was a good student and quiet person with a small network of friends”, said Jennifer Dericco, a spokeswoman for the high school district he attended in Santa Clara, California. 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 to pick up their children.

When Mohammad lunged, a frightened Christopherson ran away.

An online fundraising page has been set up by the student organization to alleviate medical expenses for the stabbing victims.

“When the suspect turned toward the officer, an officer-involved shooting occurred and the suspect succumbed to his injuries”, Vasquez said. University of California, Merced student Dolly Gonzalez, 20, is comforted by her father, Andres and mother Esperanza Gonzalez after she leaves the UC Merced campus following a stabbing in Merced, Calif., Wednesday, November 4, …