A male student stabbed and wounded four people Wednesday on a university campus in north-central California before being shot dead, the campus police said.
A male student stabbed and wounded four people Wednesday on a university campus in north-central California before being shot dead, the campus police said.
The police at the University of California Merced, which is south of the state capital Sacramento, said two victims were transported to a local hospital while the others were treated on campus. It said that all victims remained conscious, but provided no details on their condition.
After first speaking of five injuries, the school later had a downward revision of the toll, on Twitter: “Correction 4 stabbed: 2 students, 1 staff member, 1 vendor. All expected to recover.”
The Merced Sun-Star newspaper identified the assailant as a male student in his 20s.
Construction workers remodeling a campus building heard a scuffle in a classroom, and when one went to investigate, the assailant lunged at him and stabbed him, the Sun-Star reported, quoting the worker’s father, John Price.
Mr Price said his son, who was among those hospitalised, was expected to recover.
There was no immediate information on the possible motives of the assailant.
Meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing of one of three Americans who helped thwart a heavily armed attacker on a Paris-bound train, the California police said Wednesday. Spencer Stone was stabbed three times in the upper torso on October 8 as he was leaving a bar.
