Violent Rampage at UC Merced, Gay Bharat Immigrant Student stabs four before being shot by police.

[Biased Liberal Media Is Deliberately Withholding The Name Of The Stabber]

In the most violent day in the young history of UC Merced, a
male student armed with a large hunting knife attacked four
people on campus Wednesday before he was shot down by police, a
spree of bloodshed that shocked the tight-knit campus and left
investigators searching for a motive.

The school day was just beginning when authorities said the
student, whose name was not released, had a confrontation with
others in a second-floor classroom on the north side of the
campus. A construction worker, 31-year-old Byron Price, who was
nearby heard the commotion and went in to intervene, authorities
said.

The attacker lunged at Price and slashed him before fleeing. He
stabbed a male student outside the classroom and then left the
building, where he found a female university employee sitting on
a bench and stabbed her in the back. Two university police
officers chased the man onto a bridge, where he was shot and
killed.

Authorities said the suspect was a California resident in his
late teens or early 20s who was not from Merced County. His name
was being withheld while officials tried to contact his family.

All four stabbing victims were expected to recover.

Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke described Price as “the true
hero in all of this chaos.”

“Without him, the first victim could have been a lot worse off,
or even dead,” he said.

The attack, the most serious violence to strike the 10-year-old
UC campus, stunned students and officials.

“Events like this happen elsewhere but not at UC Merced, which
may still be small in its student body but large in its sense of
community,” Chancellor Dorothy Leland said at a press conference.

Classes were canceled for Wednesday and Thursday and by late
afternoon, the campus, normally bustling with nearly 6,700
students, was largely vacant.

Investigators evacuated the Tuolumne residence hall, a two-story
dormitory in the center of the campus. Officials said only they
were doing so to “widen the crime scene” and would not say
whether the suspect lived there.

Authorities have not commented on any possible motive in the
attack.

Law enforcement officials said the student used a large hunting
knife with a blade 8 inches to 10 inches long in the attack.

Price was one of three Artisan Construction workers remodeling
the student waiting room at the Classroom and Office Building on
Wednesday morning, according to Artisan CEO John Price, who is
also Price’s father.

“They heard a scuffle in the classroom right across from where
they were working and it sounded like a fight. So (my son)
opened the door and the guy lunged at him,” John Price told the
Merced Sun-Star. “It got the (attacker) outside the room, away
from others.”

The younger Price was stabbed at least once and taken to Mercy
Medical Center by his coworkers. John Price said his son was
released from the hospital before noon Wednesday and had no
injuries to major arteries.

UC officials said one of the campus officers was placed on an
automatic three-day leave pending an investigation, a standard
proceedure for officer-involved shootings.

Warnke said the Sheriff’s Department was assisting in the
investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has “offered
assistance” with the case, FBI spokeswoman Gina Swankie
confirmed.

A Merced-area law enforcement bomb squad arrived on campus
around noon to search the area. Authorities said the specialty
squad was dispatched as a precaution to investigate an item near
the suspect’s body, but there was no specific threat.

The campus community first was notified of the attack shortly
after 8 a.m. when school officials issued an alert on Twitter,
advising students to avoid the area around the Classroom and
Office Building.

Students arriving for morning classes found a campus on lockdown
and activities canceled.

Charyea Phillips, a 22-year-old senior, was among the students
walking off campus and onto the rural roads leading toward
Merced. A psychology major from Los Angeles, Phillips said her
campus job is located near the scene of the stabbing and she saw
officers responding to the site.

“Just to see something like that happen, it could have been me,”
she said. The attack is something she would have expected to see
in Los Angeles, not at a small town campus like UC Merced.
“That’s why I moved away from there.”

Blanca Ayala, a senior psychology major from the Mexican state
of Sinaloa, said she was studying on campus when she heard about
the attack. “It never crosses your mind that your life is in
danger.”

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