UC Merced stabbing victim returns

Meanwhile, a law enforcement official who chose to remain unidentified told the Merced Sun-Star that they have handed over control of the case to the Federal Bureau of Investigation who are now investigating the websites Faisal visited prior to the days leading to the attack.

According to the report, apart from the ISIS flag, Faisal was also found to be in possession of a handwritten manifesto that clearly talked about how he planned to behead one of his co-students. Investigators said Mohammad was angry after being kicked out of a study group.

“In the wake of the tragic events at UC Merced, we are heartened by the way people have come together across the UC community to support the victims and their families”, Lozano said in the statement.

Mohammad was shot and killed by a campus police officer after stabbing two students, a construction worker and a UC Merced employee. In spite of these revelations, the investigating authorities are still of the belief the attack was not religiously motivated, the report alleges.

Mayfield said the family, which includes Mohammad’s parents and two sisters, is grief-stricken and has asked for privacy.

Authorities rushed to call the stabbing spree at the University of California-Merced non-terror related but new information has cast doubt on that assessment. The sheriff told a crowd of reporters Thursday “there is nothing to indicate this was anything other than a teenage boy who got upset with fellow classmates”. Mayfield said he did not know the Mohammad family before the attack, but had previously worked with members of the area’s Muslim community and had been recommended to them.

Price, 31, entered the room, intervened and was stabbed in the side by the assailant.

A Muslim student who carried out a knife attack this week at the Merced campus of the University of California left behind a manifesto that praised Allah, officials state, but reject assertions that the student’s religion were a factor in the crime.

Mohammad, who graduated in June from Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, plotted an elaborate, step-by-step attack on students in a morning class on the second floor of the Classroom and Office Building.

He said Mohammad’s backpack contained zip-tie handcuffs, petroleum jelly, a night scope, and a hammer to break windows.

At the vigil, UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland said the ceremony “marks the end of a painful week, where lives were shattered in a place of hopes and dreams”.

Gupta encouraged people to “have some perspective”, saying that since the attacks of September 11, 2001, fewer than five people have died in terrorist attacks on American soil.

He also noted, however, that in the age of social media “everything is already everywhere” and disturbed individuals can seek inspiration from all corners of the globe.

Gupta said the goal of extremist groups such as Islamic State is to “instill a sense of collective vulnerability”.