CU student stabbed at UMC; victim and suspect ID'd

The Daily Camera via Drudge Report ^ | August 27, 2007 | Vanessa Miller

[RDTF]

A University of Colorado freshman, identified by family members as Michael George Knorps, is hospitalized with a knife wound after being cut outside of the student center this morning, the first day of classes on the Boulder campus.

Knorps, who is from Illinois, was coherent and able to talk after the incident, campus spokesman Bronson Hilliard said. He is undergoing surgery, and his parents have been notified.

“We’re very glad this young man didn’t appear to be seriously injured,” Hilliard said.

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The suspect, whom 7NEWS has named as Kenton Astin, 39, of Boulder, stabbed himself several times in the chest after the incident, which happened around 9:40 a.m. on the west terrace of the University Memorial Center, Hilliard said.

Police subdued Astin with a Taser gun, and he was also rushed to Boulder Community Hospital with serious wounds, CU police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said. Officers are at the hospital, waiting to arrest him.

Wiesley said the suspect was holding a knife and yelling incoherently when Knorps walked by. The student was ignoring the man, who then grabbed him from behind and slashed at his neck.

Police don’t think the suspect, who drove onto campus this morning, is a student. He is not listed in CU's directory.

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[Syncro]

Yea, funny huh?

Lots of people like to bash California and San Francisco.

Or bring up SF when something horrible happens somewhere else.

It's fine though, keeps California less crowded...LOL

But yea, it's a shame a thread about something important gets hijacked.

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Hilliard said there was no sign the school had performed a background check on Astin, who was hired through a program run by the county mental health center.

OK, let's see, I'll hire somebody through the county mental health system, but I won't question why the county mental health system is finding him a job. /silly university bureaucrat

[Syncro]

Both were legendary San Francisco icons.

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Apparently this thread is now about San Francisco

I usually take so long to compose posts that I miss all the OT stuff ;^)

[CatoRenasci]

Ah, San Francisco in the good old days ... when Ira Blue was on the radio, and Captain Fortune was on CBS, Herb Caen, Art Hoppe, Charles McCabe and Stan Delaplane wrote for the Comical. (... in the '60s add Dan O'Neill's Odd Bodkins). Times have sure changed... it's really all been downhill in the City since the Summer of Love, which was indeed a great time to be living in the Haight, or the Western Addition, or the inner Richmond close to the Park. I was a little further from the action on the eastern edge of Pacific Heights, but it was still an easy bus ride.... What a time in the Park, at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom.

[visualops]

If I saw someone waving a knife and yelling, I don’t think I’d walk past and “ignore” them. I’d run the other way and call the cops!

[RDTF]

“But yea, it’s a shame a thread about something important gets hijacked.”

By you!

[RDTF]

Poor kid. The pic at the link was too disturbing to post.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Very Boulder, too.

[TASMANIANRED]

He was incoherent and holding a knife and the boy walked close to him....Doesn’t have much of an instinct for survival...

[Syncro]

Well, yea kinda. I was commenting on other’s comments on SF.

Sorry

[Jack Hammer]

Just speaking personally, but if I were to note a man with a knife screaming incoherently, I’d get away quickly while not turning my back. Then call campus security.

[RDTF]

I was thinking that too. Guess he was understandably preoccupied with his first few hours of college. Unfortunately he learned some street smarts the hard way.

[TASMANIANRED]

I see some obvious lunatic with a knife and I’m taking the long way around...

After the Westbecker incident...(going postal at the local liberal rag)....I was in line at a bank with a raving schizophrenic having an argument with nobody there...I left the bank and returned some time later.

I have no intention of being a “innocent bystander” when a berserker loses it.

[Royal Wulff]

But, for a recent gubment-indoctrinated yoot, the guy was just expressing his alternative view of reality. Everything is relative and there is no true “evil” in the world.

[Unknowing]

Everyone feels sorry for this poor victim. Boulder is approximately a loony bin already, and CU has had too much bad publicity lately.

The lad obviously should have matriculated to the University of Denver.

[Disambiguator]

If anyone hijacked the thread, it was me, ok? It was an innocent aside about the homeless in SF, and it got away.

Now back to our originally scheduled program.

[Gondring]

...he was found innocent because of his mental condition.

"Found innocent" is not a legal description...so who found him "innocent"??

[mollynme]

Sorry - He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Is that better?

[Lee'sGhost]

If you ask me, it should be GUILTY by reason of insanity.