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ISIS-linked tweet praises Bharat Gay Immigrant Calif. university stabber student as details on his background emerge.

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Nov 8, 2015, 8:45:01 PM11/8/15
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As authorities worked to establish a motive for the 18-year-old
college freshman who stabbed four people on a California campus
Wednesday, more disturbing details emerged about the attacker.

Faisal Mohammad, who was killed by University of California
Merced police, was described by at least one witness as smiling
as he slashed at victims, called a loner by a fellow dorm
resident and drew praise Thursday from a Twitter account
associated with ISIS, which just last week released a series of
videos calling for lone wolf stabbing attacks.

“May Allah accept him,” read a tweet in Arabic from a Twitter
account that terrorism experts say has carried previous ISIS
propaganda, just minutes after Mohammad’s name was divulged by
campus authorities.

Investigators were expected to reveal more information in a news
conference later Thursday morning.

"He had a smile on his face, he was having fun," a construction
worker who helped stop the attacker told CBS 47.

A suitemate said Mohammad "didn't talk much." Speaking to KFSN,
Andrew Velasquez said he never saw the stabber walking to class
with anyone, adding, "Every time I would try and say something
he would just ignore it."

Campus police shot and killed Mohammad, a computer science &
engineering major who graduated from Wilcox High School in Santa
Clara last June. Police detonated his backpack and are testing a
substance inside, KGO reports.

The four victims are expected to survive. Authorities say
Mohammad was armed with a hunting knife, and that its blade was
8 to 10 inches long.

"He had a smile on his face, he was having fun."

- Byron Price, stabbing victim
The construction worker ran into the classroom to stop the
attack, saying he'd initially thought it was a fight. Byron
Price, 31, was working on remodeling a waiting room when he
heard a commotion and rushed to check on it.

Price told CBS 47, "It was a really big knife and he was
swinging it down so I figured if I was on the ground and my feet
were at him, he could get my legs and not my body."

"I really believe he's a hero here. I think he prevented this
first student from dying," Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke
said. "The cops on campus, oh my gosh, praise them because they
stopped a threat, but this first guy, he stopped a death."

Two of the injured had to be airlifted to nearby hospitals, and
the other two were treated on campus. The incident began when
the assailant used the knife to stab two people in a second-
floor room around the start of an 8 a.m. class.

Warnke said the suspect fled the room after attacking the
construction worker and ran down two flights of stairs to the
outside where he stabbed a school employee sitting on a bench.
The suspect fled the building. He was shot and killed by
pursuing campus police on a nearby foot bridge.

All the victims were conscious when paramedics reached them,
Assistant Vice Chancellor Patti Waid said.

Lensy Maravilla, 19, a first-year student, said she was in a
biology class on the second floor of the same building, when a
female student ran in.
Maravilla said the student "was crying hysterically and came in
and said that she had seen somebody get stabbed, or slashed, in
the throat and she ran."

The main road to enter the campus remained closed to outside
traffic Wednesday night and classes were canceled until Friday
at the university, which is about 120 miles south of Sacramento
in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley. Police were allowing
students who live on campus to come and go, but anxious parents
waited in their vehicles at the end of the dark roadway about a
half mile from the campus entrance.

The Twitter account on which the attack was praised appears to
be one of thousands that regularly reference ISIS, according to
Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC), which
translated the message. Veryan Khan, of TRAC, which monitors
ISIS and other groups on social media, said ISIS mounted a call
for stabbings on Oct. 18, with the release 19 videos, but could
not say what motivated Wednesday's attack.

"Over the past three days, the Islamic State has released
nineteen videos encouraging Palestinians stabbing attacks on
Israel," Khan said. "The media campaign coincides with a wave of
renewed violence between Israel and Palestine, after a wave of
seemingly lone wolf attacks by Palestinians targeting Israelis."

Cut his throat and pour pigs blood down it until it drips from
his asshole.

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