Texas College Stabbing: 14 Injured, 2 In Critical Condition

April 9, 2013

[color=#000000][font=arial]Maya Khalil was shocked when she saw victims bleeding on the ground.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Moments before, the 19-year-old had been in class at the Lone Star College's CyFair campus outside Houston, Texas.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]But after leaving class, Khalil watched her college campus turn into a crime scene on Tuesday.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"It was really scary," she told CNN.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Khalil snapped photos of the chaos as it unfolded, posting pictures on Twitter that showed a bandaged student on a stretcher and police and paramedics swarming the scene.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Hours later, Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia told reporters that 14 people were injured and two of them were in critical condition.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Authorities have detained the suspect, an approximately 21-year-old male enrolled at the school, Garcia said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]It was unclear what the suspect's motive was, or what weapon he used, Garcia said. The investigation is ongoing, he said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"We do not know exactly what type of weapon was used other than to say that it is at this point an unknown instrument," he said. "We don't know whether a knife or some other type of instrument."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Garcia said a call came in to 911 Tuesday morning describing a "male on the loose stabbing people" at the Lone Star College's CyFair campus.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Most of the victims had lacerations in their head and neck areas, said Robert Rasa, a spokesman for the CyFair Volunteer Fire Department.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"We were literally going from building to building, room to room, looking for patients, setting up triage," he said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]The school was on lockdown Tuesday afternoon while authorities combed the campus to ensure no other injured people or attackers were there, Harris County sheriff's spokesman Alan Bernstein said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]While authorities investigated, teachers and students huddled together in locked rooms, said Marianna Sviland, a teacher at the college who was in a faculty workroom at the time of the stabbing.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"Outside the window, I saw cops running around, I saw students running and I realized something was going on," she said. "It was scary."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]By2 p.m. (3 p.m. ET), students and staff were allowed to leave campus, Sviland said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Details about the victim's injuries were unclear Tuesday afternoon.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Bernstein said it wasn't clear whether all of the injured people were stabbed.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"It's possible other people were running away" and became injured that way, he said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Four injured victims "were in a dire enough situation that they were taken out on helicopters," Bernstein said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]"I do believe the confrontation was limited to a few (classrooms) or just one classroom -- not anybody roaming around and getting into a large number of areas," Bernstein said.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]The school [url="http://lonestar.edu/cyfair.htm"]posted a warning on its website[/url]: "Stay away from the area. Seek shelter in a secure location until the incident is resolved."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=arial]Tuesday's incident comes more than two months after three people were wounded in a [url="http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/22/justice/texas-college-shooting/index.html"]shooting at a different Lone Star College campus[/url] -- the North Harris campus in Houston[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=arial]source :[/font][/color]http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/justice/texas-college-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1