18 Year Old Student Goes on School stabbing rampage to protest being kicked out of a study group

The California student who went on a stabbing rampage before being shot dead by police had planned to kill a police officer, steal a gun and shoot the classmates who had kicked him out of a study group.

Faisal Mohammad, 18, a freshman who majored in computer science and engineering at the University of California, Merced, stabbed four people on Wednesday.

But the teenager, of Santa Clara, California, ‘had far greater intentions to do damage’, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said.

According to a two-page manifesto found stuffed in his pocket during an autopsy on Thursday, Mohammad had a detailed plan of revenge for the students who had expelled him from their group.

He had been carrying two plastic baggies of highly flammable petroleum jelly, ziptie handcuffs, night vision goggles, duct tape and a hammer in his backpack when he was shot in the back by officers.

He had planned to hold students hostage by using the plastic ties to bind their hands to their desks during class on Wednesday morning.

  

Then, he planned to call police with a fake distress call, ambush the responding officers and take their guns.He intended to squirt the petroleum jelly on the floor to create a slippery surface for anyone entering the classroom.But his attack on the class was foiled almost immediately and the four people he stabbed with a hunting knife – two students, a staff member and a building contractor - are all expected to recover.

Mohammad had apparently been ‘smiling’ when he used a 10-inch hunting knife to stab two students, a campus construction worker and a female teacher in a terrifying attack that was praised by an ISIS-linked Twitter account.

The student, described as ‘anti-social’ by his roommate, was 'having fun', one victim said, as he slashed the first student in the throat inside a classroom.

When construction worker Byron Price, 31, heard the commotion and intervened, he was stabbed in his left side by Mohammad as he tried to stop the attack.

'He had a smile on his face, he was having fun - which is more what bothers me,' Price told CBSFresno. 

Sheriff Vern Warnke said that Price's entrance into the classroom likely prevented the death of the first victim who was attacked.

 For a detailed report on the rampage, visit www.dailymail.co.uk