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UC Merced Stabbing Assailant Was Student

MERCED (CBS13) — A suspect in the stabbings of four people on the UC Merced campus was shot and killed by campus police on Wednesday.

The assailant was a male student at the school who hasn't been identified as officers try to notify next of kin.

The fight started in a second-floor classroom at around 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Two students, one staff member and a vendor were stabbed.

The stabbings left the campus in disbelief and shut down.

Students like freshman Necole Goodman were evacuated from their classes and rushed back to her dorm.

"When I got to my room the dorm was locked down and we got an email soon after saying it was safe to leave the room," he said.

John Price, a father of 31-year-old vendor Byron Price, says his son ran into the classroom with other co-workers and saw the suspect. He says the suspect turned to his son and stabbed him in the side.

"He was in the hospital, got a stab wound down low and they did a CT scan to make sure no organs were hurt," he said.

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