Lone Star College student Dylan Quick was arrested Tuesday after allegedly stabbing more than a dozen students, and authorities are now saying he had been planning the attack for a long time, having "had fantasies of stabbing people" since he was "in elementary school." NBC's Jay Gray reports.
By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News
Shortly after 14 people were wounded on a Texas campus on Tuesday, Dylan Quick, the suspect in the attack, told investigators he had been fantasizing about fatal stabbings since he was a young boy, authorities said.
"He had fantasies of killing people and stabbing people," Sara Kinney, spokesperson for the Harris County district attorney's office, said. "He gave a lengthy, voluntary confession statement to the authorities in which he alluded to reading about killing people."
Investigators executed a search warrant on Quick's house, confiscating his computer and other items to try to get an idea of what might have prompted him to allegedly plan Tuesday's attack on Lone Star College in Cyprus, a suburb of Houston.
Quick, a 20-year-old Lone Star student, was arrested after the late morning stabbing spree, which left at least two victims in critical condition. He used a blade described by Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia on Wednesday as a "razor utility knife" made by X-Acto.
"There were pieces of blade in at least one victim, broken blade pieces in the area where the cutting occurred, and the handle to a razor-type knife was found in a backpack that Quick was carrying when he was arrested," according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
Quick had been fantasizing about stabbing people since he was 8 years old, Garcia told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday, adding that it appears the victims were randomly selected.
"He did share that he has been planning this event for some time," he said.?
Quick has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault. He was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation on Wednesday. Kinney said his family had hired an attorney for him, and he was scheduled to make his first court appearance on Thursday.
Harris County Sheriff's Office via Reuters
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Neighbors who knew Quick as he was growing up described him as polite and helpful, according to?The Houston Chronicle, which reported he went to a mainstream school, Cy-Fair Independent School District in Houston, until 2004, and then was home-schooled. He was born hearing-impaired and received a cochlear implant when he was a child, the Chronicle reported.?
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Investigators described Quick as matter-of-fact during their questioning, the sheriff said.
"He has been very forthcoming," Garcia said.
Tuesday's stabbings occurred at the school's CyFair campus, inside its health science building, on the first and second floors. The entire incident only lasted "a couple of minutes. That's how fast it happened," Garcia said.
Student Steve Maida?told NBC's Jay Gray that a group of students tackled Quick?when they saw what was happening.
?We pushed him down,?? ?Maida said. ?As soon as he knew he was caught, (he said) ?I give up. I give up.? I just sat on top of him and was like, ?Why? Why did you do this????
The majority of the wounds were to the shoulders, neck and face, witnesses said.
"This girl comes out and says, ?My friend?s been stabbed,??? Maida said. ?Then this other girl came out, and one of them had a hole in her cheek.??
Dr. Audre Levy, president of Lone Star College's CyFair campus, said those who knew Quick at school were shocked.
"There are no signs that he was a problem student," she said at Wednesday's news conference. "I do know that he worked in the library, and the library staff had very fond things to say about him."?
In January, three people were shot at a separate campus of Lone Star College. A federal official said those shootings appeared to be gang-related.
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