An engineering student who went off on a stabbing spree Wednesday, wounding four people on the campus of U.C.-Merced before being shot and killed by police, has been identified as Faisal Mohammad.
Mohammad was a freshman student residing in Santa Clara. The college and the local sheriff moved quickly to frame the attack as not related to terrorism.
Sheriff Vern Warnke said the FBI looked into Mohammad’s background and family and found nothing to indicate terrorist ties. When asked about an ISIS tweet that praised Mohammad’s actions, Warnke said ISIS was most likely just taking advantage of the attacker’s “ethnic name” to instill terror, ABC News reported....
