UT scholar stabbed with fork in Engineering Science Building, suspect held

UT scholar stabbed with fork in Engineering Science Building, suspect held

A female UT scholar was stabbed in the nose with a fork in the Engineering Science Building on Wednesday night, according to UTPD narrator Cindy Posey.

The victim's appoint has not been released.

Posey held UTPD acknowledged a call next to 5:45 PM around an assault in progress, and UTPD and APD officers were both dispatched to the view. According to Posey and witnesses next to the view, the assailant, Chenxi Deng - who is not a UT scholar - stabbed the female scholar, in the same way as which he was restrained by several UT students to keep watch over officers here.

Posey held the scholar, who was originally taken thought of by an EMT on the view, has been taken to St. David's Medical Center representing foster management. Posey held Deng has been arrested representing aggravated assault, though this cannot be inveterate by Roger Wade, known in sequence executive representing the Travis County Sheriff's work.

Electrical engineering junior Priscilla Chang held she did not behold the attack itself but was witness to the immediate consequences. Chang held she reached the third-floor elevator and maxima bleeding girl sitting on the bench outside the elevator, surrounded by other students.

"She was crying, evidently," Chang held. "There was a puddle of blood on the floor, kind of sour to the character."

Chang held she maxim Deng being restrained on the ground by a bracket together of other students.

"I maxim the guy being pinned down by a small number of other guys, and he was departing nuts," Chang held. "He was yelling a quantity of crazy stuff, but I couldn't really tell come again? It was - he seemed incoherent. He was fighting the guys demanding to foothold him down."

Dylan Zika, an electrical engineering junior, held he was studying in the ENS building what time the stabbing occurred. Zika held what time he approached the elevator, he was denied access by the keep watch over.

"They wouldn't give permission everybody in the elevator on the third floor representing 20 or 30 minutes," Zika held. "I think they'd already cleaned up the blood by the stage I got at hand."