14 DAY TRIAL // A student at Lone Star college in Texas has stabbed 14 people on campus in Cypress, in the Houston area.
The Guardian writes that two victims are currently in serious condition after being attacked on Tuesday, April 9.
According to the Houston Chronicle, they have incurred wounds to the neck and head. Eyewitness accounts also reveal that a female victim has been stabbed in the mouth.
“I went out to ask them to please be quiet and a girl was bleeding out through her neck, running down the stairs. [...] I saw another girl sitting at the top of the stairs, and they had paper towels on her neck because she had gotten stabbed in the throat,” student Cassie Foe describes.
Business Insider mentioned that the attacker used an X-Acto, a type of high-precision box cutter utility knife in the assaults. The type of knife is relayed in the photo attached to this news article.
The Harris County sheriff's office details that they have detained a suspect in the stabbing. 20-year-old Dylan Quick attends Lone Star and has allegedly premeditated the attack.
The knife broke apart in the attack, and parts of it were recovered from Quick's bag.
Police received a call about a “male on the loose stabbing people” at 11.12 a.m., adds sheriff Adrian Garcia.
Once arriving at the scene, they noticed that he was belligerent and were forced to subdue him using a stun gun.
“When they Tasered him, they gang-tackled him to the ground. [...] He was just running away from the police,” a witness recalls.
Michael Chalfan, who goes to the school and met Quick in drama class, classifies his behavior as eccentric.
“He dresses weird, he wears gloves and often carried around toys, like stuffed animals. He was a really friendly kid ... a joyful person,” Chalfan says.
Demond Lago, who was booked on campus at the same time as Quick, tells the press that the suspect is “troubled.”
“He said he was trying to go on a killing spree but the [expletive] blade broke,” Lago remembers.