The 18-year-old freshman who stabbed four people on the University of California Merced Wednesday intended to shoot people, attack a police officer, and target a specific person who kicked him out of a study group, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office announced late Thursday.The findings come after a coroner performing an autopsy on Faisal Mohammad found the suspect's manifesto on his body, according to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke.
Mohammad listed the intended targets by name in the manifesto, and planned to tie students to desks while drawing out police to steal a gun and shoot people, Warnke said. He also planned on using the petroleum jelly found in his backpack to squirt on the floor as a slip-and-slide for anyone entering his classroom, which according to Warnke, he thought would allow him to be in a position to steal a gun from a responding police officer.
“His plan went haywire because people fought back,” Warnke said Thursday night. “He got so befuddled at the activities that happened; it took the script away from him.”
Warnke stressed Wednesday’s stabbings were not terrorism, just a grudge by an angry teenager,
| ...that of course is nonsense... |
| See... |
| I'm confused. |
| Setting up the "crazy loner" argument... |
“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.
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."
| No doubt he was disturbed. So are a lot of ISIS guys... |
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."
| It's all part of a plan, loosely coordinated, by various groups to wreck havoc around the world. Mass "immigration" by military aged men, stabbings, conflicts in various parts of the world; all designed to overwhelm the senses of the western world and perhaps, just maybe, crash that world. That the nomenklatura of the western world continue to deny, obfuscate and hand-wave just plays into this. |