11-06-2015, 09:30 AM
UC Merced -- Assailant's Motive and Plan
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^ Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke/Coroner said a two-page "manifesto" detailing the knifeman's motive and plans to terrorize and kill several classmates at the University of California, Merced was found on his body Thursday during his autopsy.
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Campus police shot and killed ^ Faisal Mohammad, 18, after the teen stabbed two students, a university employee and a construction contractor shortly after 8 a.m. PST Wednesday on the rural campus in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley, 120 miles south of Sacramento. The four are expected to survive.
Mohammad's plan for revenge discussed his anger with being kicked out of the study group, the sheriff said, but he didn't know why the computer science and engineering major was excluded from the group.
Warnke said Mohammad planned to use plastic ties to bind the hands of his classmates to their desks in his Wednesday morning class. He was then going call police with a fake distress call and ambush responding officers with a hunting knife and steal their guns. He planned to use the guns to shoot a list of students he named in his "manifesto," including those in his study group.
"He had delusions of grandeur," the sheriff said. "I don't think he had any actual capability to carry it out." Warnke said Mohammad's plan was written in English and referenced the Muslim god Allah several times. But Warnke said the student was motivated by personal animosities and the attacks had nothing to do with religion or terrorism.
"We had a teenager who was upset he was kicked out of a study group," Warnke said. "We had a teenager who didn't know how to channel his anger." The sheriff said Mohammad was born in the United States. He said investigators didn't find any evidence of mental illness.
Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/....html?_r=0
^ Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke/Coroner said a two-page "manifesto" detailing the knifeman's motive and plans to terrorize and kill several classmates at the University of California, Merced was found on his body Thursday during his autopsy.
Campus police shot and killed ^ Faisal Mohammad, 18, after the teen stabbed two students, a university employee and a construction contractor shortly after 8 a.m. PST Wednesday on the rural campus in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley, 120 miles south of Sacramento. The four are expected to survive.
Mohammad's plan for revenge discussed his anger with being kicked out of the study group, the sheriff said, but he didn't know why the computer science and engineering major was excluded from the group.
Warnke said Mohammad planned to use plastic ties to bind the hands of his classmates to their desks in his Wednesday morning class. He was then going call police with a fake distress call and ambush responding officers with a hunting knife and steal their guns. He planned to use the guns to shoot a list of students he named in his "manifesto," including those in his study group.
"He had delusions of grandeur," the sheriff said. "I don't think he had any actual capability to carry it out." Warnke said Mohammad's plan was written in English and referenced the Muslim god Allah several times. But Warnke said the student was motivated by personal animosities and the attacks had nothing to do with religion or terrorism.
"We had a teenager who was upset he was kicked out of a study group," Warnke said. "We had a teenager who didn't know how to channel his anger." The sheriff said Mohammad was born in the United States. He said investigators didn't find any evidence of mental illness.
Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/....html?_r=0