Mental evaluation set for suspect in Lone Star College stabbings
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Police have charged one man in Tuesday鈥檚 stabbing rampage at a Houston-area community college, during which 14 people were injured.
Dylan Quick, a student at Lone Star College鈥檚 Cy-Fair campus, is being held without bond and is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Five people remain hospitalized, though they are all in good condition, hospital officials said. Mr. Quick will appear in court Thursday in Houston, according to the Associated Press.
In a voluntary statement to authorities, the suspect admitted that 鈥渉e has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school,鈥 according to 聽from the聽Harris County Sheriff's Office.聽鈥淗e also indicated that he has been planning this incident for some time,鈥 it stated.
On Wednesday, Quick will undergo a聽psychological evaluation, the Harris County District Attorney's Office .
Quick鈥檚 neighbors said they were taken aback to learn that the shy man who often helped his parents with yard work could be tied to something like this.
Next-door neighbor Michael Lincoln was surprised that the 鈥渧ery friendly kid鈥 was implicated in the incident. Quick helped Mr. Lincoln pull down a branch that had fallen on his roof last week.
鈥淗e鈥檚 not aggressive,鈥 Lincoln . He added that Quick did keep mostly to himself.
"He doesn't have any friends. Nobody comes over there," Lincoln said. "He stays inside most of the time."
Magdalena Lopez, who has lived across the street from the聽Quick聽family for 15 years, said she couldn鈥檛 believe that Quick would do this.
"I can't imagine what would have happened to that young man to make him do something like this. He is very normal," Ms. Lopez told the Associated Press.
Quick came to Lone Star College after being home-schooled, the Houston Chronicle reported. He started attending events at the college鈥檚 library when he was 12 to help develop his hearing and communication skills. Born deaf, Quick received ear implants when he was 7 years old, the paper reported.
He attended two book clubs at the library 鈥 Classics for Home Schooled Teens and Contemporary Books for Everyone 鈥 and after two years of not contributing to the groups, he learned to open up.
鈥淒ylan became loquacious, sharing his analyses of literature and socializing with his book club comrades," said a profile on the library鈥檚 website, a blog that focuses on teens transitioning from high school to college that was published April 1.
This is the second attack in three months for Lone Star College, a network of six campuses the Houston area. In January, a fight led to a shooting at the North Harris campus in which three people were injured.
At 11:20 a.m. Central time, Quick used a 鈥渞azor-like knife鈥 to stab people, moving quickly through campus before being tackled by other students, according to the statement from the sheriff's office.
Ryan Ballard was among the students reported to have helped stop the attack, chasing the suspect as he fled the Health Science building where Mr. Ballard was headed to biology class.
When Ballard entered the building, students were shouting, and several were bleeding, he聽.
"My first thought was I need to go catch him,'" he told the paper.聽"I don't know why I thought that."
Police say they found the handle to the knife in Quick鈥檚 backpack, which he was carrying when he was arrested.
The college reopened at regular hours Wednesday after being locked down Tuesday because police believed there was a second suspect. Campus surveillance equipment and eye-witness accounts later confirmed only one perpetrator, the college said .