Posted by If you think throat-cutting only happens in a hack-slash paranoid film, think again…
Today (October 8, 2009) Students in the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) chemistry lab accounted the horrible event that recently happened when a fellow classmate (male) gashed the throat of a female student (identity not yet disclosed) who was severely wounded.
A student who happened to be inside the laboratory sum up the events on Times. On an interview, its said that the attacker repeatedly punch the victim and slashed her neck. Then just like what you see on a psycho-film, the assailant merely walk out the door calmly as the blood gushes from the victim’s neck.
Officers said that a verbal-argument was heard before the occurrence of the assault, though the relationship (if ever there was one) between the assailant and the assailee is not yet disclosed to the public
Witnesses said they saw a woman reeling out of the sixth-floor (Young-hall lab) with a instructor applying direct-pressure on her lashed-neck in hopes to alleviate the flow of blood while medics are still out of reach (12:21 p.m.)
Afterward, The victim was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she is now being held on a surgery.
The UCLA police brought a suspected man into custody while sealing the Young Hall (UCLA’s chemistry department) Although, its said the motive of the attack is still unknown.
UCLA chemistry professor Robin Garrell (chairwoman, UCLA) was about to leave fourth-floor on Young-Hall when she saw emergency crews pedaling out the victim on a stretcher going to the ground floor.
Students and faculty “are obviously very shaken” by the incident, Garrell said. “It’s very shocking.”
Traumatized students who witnessed the attack, didn’t manage to take-off their lab coats as they wait in the sixth floor to be interviewed by investigators. Many of their personal belongings, such as car-keys, mobile phones etc remained behind the lab room which is now a crime-scene perimeter.
Carol Stogsdill (UCLA spokeswoman) said that she doesn’t hold any information with the suspect even past behavioral reports that include attacking of a fellow classmates.
Chemistry department vice chairman Peter Felker said he did not know any of the students in the class and that the department had not received any reports of trouble in the lab or complaints about the alleged assailant’s past behavior.
“Nothing that I’m aware of,”
Merchant and others described the mood in Young Hall as stunned.
“People are shocked that something like that would happen. But because we are at the university doesn’t mean we are immune from what goes on in the rest of the world,” she said. “This could happen in a restaurant or a shopping mall.”
This atrocious event is just a reminder of what people are really capable. It doesn’t mean that if you see a guy who has a clean-sheet of record then the person is already innocent and not concealing a gruesome desire to hurt somebody. Just like what we said above, movies like psycho aren’t so fictional afterall.
Latest updates: The suspect has been identified as Damon Thompson, A 20-year-old UCLA student. Sara Faden an Officer from the Los Angeles Police confirmed that they arrested Mr. Thomas within the Young Hall chemistry lab premises and got hold of him. It has also been reported that a $1 million bail is set for Damon.
Let’s see how “calmly” the suspect can handle this one now…
(sources: latimes, LA news, pictures – spencer weiner)
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