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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Incident Reported at UC-Merced

From the LA Times: Multiple people have been stabbed on the UC Merced campus, police and school officials said Wednesday. The campus tweeted about 8 a.m. that there had been a stabbing and told people to avoid the area. Within minutes, the school announced that a person was taken into custody and that there was “no active danger.” A reporter for KSEE-TV tweeted that the attacker had been killed. The school tweeted that two victims were taken to local hospitals while three others were treated at the scene. Classes were canceled for the day and the campus was shut down, the school tweeted. Campus police and Merced County fire officials were not immediately available for comment.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-merced-stabbing-20151104-story.html

See also http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2015/breaking-police-report-stabbing-campus-suspect-deceased

UPDATE: Around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, police say a male student at UC Merced stabbed four people. He was then shot by campus police and died a short time later. His name has not been released. http://abc30.com/news/4-injured-suspect-is-dead-in-uc-merced-stabbing/1067737/

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