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UCLA Reeling After Lab Student's Throat Slashed

Male student attacks female chem partner

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(Newser) – UCLA students were shaken yesterday after a 20-year-old man slashed the throat of a classmate in a chemistry lab in front of others. The pair, believed to have been lab partners, had a verbal altercation before the man attacked the woman and walked calmly away as a teaching assistant rushed to stem the bleeding. The victim is in stable condition in hospital.

The teaching assistant "deserves a medal. He had his hands around her wounds and was yelling, 'Call 911,'" a co-worker told AP. "He kept holding her so she wouldn't bleed until the paramedics arrived." The alleged attacker was arrested in the same building soon after, and has been charged with attempted murder. Students and faculty are "very shaken," said a chemistry professor. "It's very shocking." Psychological counselors were on the scene to help students.

A Los Angeles police car is parked outside the scene of the attack at UCLA's Young Hall building.
A Los Angeles police car is parked outside the scene of the attack at UCLA's Young Hall building.   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Los Angeles police take the elevator to the crime scene on the sixth floor at UCLA's Young Hall yesterday.
Los Angeles police take the elevator to the crime scene on the sixth floor at UCLA's Young Hall yesterday.   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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rosy_s
Oct 9, 09 6:42 AM CDT
oh god! what goes on in people's minds?!??!!! Reply
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Jes
Oct 9, 09 9:25 AM CDT
No shit. He must have had some kind of psychotic break. How can you even contemplate something like this? And how would you handle having it in your class?
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Jes
Oct 9, 09 9:24 AM CDT
Slashed her with what? It was a chem lab, not a bio lab. The closest thing I have in chem to a knife is a sample spatula. Reply
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JoeQ
Oct 9, 09 11:46 AM CDT
That boy must have been pretty tightly wound up to snap like that. Now his life is wrecked because at the absolute minimum he's going to get expelled. My personal take-away is that its always best not to provoke people especially strangers. You never know what could set them off. Reply
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alkaseltzersammich
Oct 9, 09 11:53 AM CDT
The guys is going go to go to prison for a few years probably.
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