Student arrested in Texas campus stabbing

CYPRESS, Texas -- A male student who fantasized about stabbing people was charged Tuesday night in connection with an attack that injured at least 14 people, two critically, at a Houston-area community college, authorities said.

Dylan Quick, 20, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He is suspected of acting alone in what one official described as a "building-to-building" attack at the Lone Star Community College's CyFair campus about 30 miles northwest of Houston. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday.

"According to the statement the suspect voluntarily gave investigators, he has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school," the Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a statement late yesterday. "He also indicated that he has been planning this incident for some time." Quick used a razor-type knife that left pieces of blade in at least one victim, and the handle was found in Quick's backpack, the sheriff's office said.

The attack came less than three months after a shooting at another Lone Star campus north of Houston in which two people were injured. The suspect in the Jan. 22 shooting is charged with aggravated assault.

After yesterday's attack, the 6,000-student-plus CyFair campus was locked down, then closed for the day. A dozen victims were hospitalized with lacerations, authorities said.

The first calls to police, at 11:12 a.m., reported a "man on the loose stabbing people," Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said.

Student Michael Chalfan Jr., 22, of Houston said he saw the suspect run from about five law enforcement officers before a civilian tackled him with the help of police, who used a Taser to subdue the suspect.

The tackler, Steven Maida, said he was leaving the school bookstore when he heard a girl screaming, "My friend got stabbed in the face," then saw another girl who had been stabbed. With AP