UCLA lab students watched in horror as male classmate slashed female student's throat

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Students in the UCLA science lab described the horrifying moments this afternoon when a male classmate slashed the throat of a female student, who was critically injured. One student who was inside the lab when the attack occurred shortly after noon told The Times that he looked up as the assailant appeared to repeatedly punch the victim. Then the man calmly turned and walked away as the victim lay bleeding profusely. Law enforcement sources said some type of verbal altercation occurred just before the attack, but the relationship, if any, between the assailant and the victim was unclear. Witnesses said they saw a woman staggering out of the sixth-floor Young Hall lab with a teacher's assistant applying pressure to her bloody neck moments after the attack, which was reported at 12:21 p.m. The victim, whose name was withheld, was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she apparently was undergoing surgery. The suspected assailant was taken into custody by UCLA police, who sealed off Young Hall, home of the school's chemistry department. Police said they don't know of any motive for the attack. "We have asked students to stay away from Young Hall," said UCLA police spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein. The attack apparently took place between class sessions in an organic chemistry lab on the top floor of Young Hall. The undergraduate level lab, known as 30CL, enrolls about a dozen students and is usually led by teaching assistants. It is part of a class for about 60 students that is overseen by lecturer Alfred Bacher, according to department officials. Bacher, who joined the UCLA faculty in 2001 after work as a postdoctoral fellow there, could not be reached for comment. By at least one account of a chemistry department employee who asked not to be identified, the assailant turned himself in to a campus employee in a third-floor reception and mail room area in the building. UCLA chemistry professor Robin Garrell, who is chairwoman of the UCLA campuswide Faculty Senate, was leaving her fourth-floor office in Young Hall when she saw emergency crews wheeling out the victim on a stretcher on the ground floor. Students and faculty “are obviously very shaken” by the incident, Garrell said. “It’s very shocking.” Psychological counselors were on the scene to help students cope with the situation, she said. Two hours later, traumatized students who witnessed the attack, still in their lab coats, lined the sixth floor, waiting to be interviewed by detectives. Many of their personal possessions, including books and keys to their cars and residences, remained behind in the lab room that had become a crime scene. [Updated at 4:45 p.m.: UCLA campus spokeswoman Carol Stogsdill said she had no information about the alleged assailant's past behavioral record and had not heard of any reports of previous trouble in the class or between the two students. She said both students were 20-year-old seniors and that their identities were being withheld by police. 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,” he said. UCLA biochemistry professor Sabeeha Merchant was close to the crime scene soon after the stabbing and praised the other students and faculty who came to the aid of the victim and alerted police. "They were responsible and calm and really helped,” she said. 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.”]

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[canada's]

this is shocking. curious to know the story behind it.

[yeliab]

OMG, this is horrible! What is happening now days??

I really hope she makes it!! Any news as far as her prognosis? My thoughts and prayers are with her!

I want that psycho to see that not only is she alive but she's doing really well... then put that A## in jail where the other men will have their way with him!!

What a psycho!

[alliemia]

OMG..how traumatizing!

i can't believe how people are so quick to snap nowadays. slashing a neck over a disagreement in a lab? insane!

[LushBoutique]

omg, what are going on in these schools nowadays? I know that this could have happened anywhere, but with all these stories about incidents in schools lately are just very unsettling. I really hope that the girl is okay!! Thank goodness there were witnesses, and people there who were able to help her!

[Jahpson]

first high school and now murders in college. this world is a truly scary place

[everything posh]

My goodness! I really hope she makes it through this!!

[NYCBelle]

what is going on with this world???

[Jahpson]

just reread the article. no one did anything? I would have thrown a bunsen burner or test tube or something..

[twin53]

terrible

[Vinyl]

Another article...

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Relatives of alleged UCLA throat-slasher shocked by his arrest Relatives of the man suspected of slashing the neck of a fellow UCLA student were in disbelief today that the mellow young man who raided their refrigerator could commit such a violent act. Damon D. Thompson, who was arrested Thursday after the attack in a chemistry lab on the Westwood campus, frequently stayed at relatives’ tidy brown home in Fontana with a basketball hoop in the driveway. He is an only child who left his mother’s home in Belize two years ago to attend UCLA. His second cousin, Akilah Williams, 17, said she was shocked when she heard the news and skeptical that the 20-year-old could commit such a brutal act. “He cares about what people think about him too much,” Williams said. “He gets stressed out but that doesn’t mean he’d do something crazy.” Thompson is accused of slashing the neck of a 20-year-old woman Thursday afternoon in a chemistry lab on the sixth floor of Young Hall, prompting a swift police mobilization and leaving the student body shaken. The victim, whose name has not been released, is recovering at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after emergency surgery. Thompson, who was arrested inside Young Hall minutes after the attack, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder. Police are searching for a motive. Relatives described Thompson as mellow though sometimes “snooty” about his possessions. Williams said her only complaint about her cousin was that he occasionally raided the fridge. “He would eat everything,” she said. “I mean everything.” Thompson had no other family in the United States, so he would spend school breaks, including all of last summer, at his mother’s cousin’s Fontana home. Relatives said they had never seen their cousin become violent. “He was even nice to my dog, Doc,” said Jabari Williams, 16, also a second cousin.

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[Glamfoxx]

Somebody please tell me what happened to this world...

[yeliab]

Read this morning that the victim is STABLE!! Yay!! Great news!!

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by yeliab

Read this morning that the victim is STABLE!! Yay!! Great news!!

Yup! Very good news to hear that.

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Woman slashed in UCLA lab expected to recover LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a UCLA student who was stabbed in the throat by a fellow student remains hospitalized but is expected to recover. Meanwhile, detectives are trying to discover a motive for the attack. Campus and Los Angeles police are investigating but would release few details on the case Friday. Twenty-year-old Damon Thompson was arrested after allegedly attacking a female student in a chemistry lab Thursday. He remains jailed on $1 million bail. UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton says the 20-year-old victim — whose identity hasn't been released — remained hospitalized Friday. Los Angeles police spokesman Richard French says the woman is expected to recover. The district attorney's office says police have not submitted details of their investigation. Classes at the lab were canceled Friday.

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[aaallabama]

violence against women is

outta control in the USA!!!