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

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.

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.

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

Some of the points from the Fact Sheet:

Mr. Astin was released from the state mental hospital in Pueblo and has been under supervision of the Boulder County Mental Health Center. He has worked with the Chinook Clubhouse, a support-network program of the Boulder County Mental Health Center, for approximately two years under the close supervision of mental health physicians and professionals, and was referred to the university for employment by that organization;
CU-Boulder has had a 17-year relationship with Chinook Clubhouse in engaging these referrals. This is the first incident of this type that the university is aware of;

When I was in graduate school, the university made even more obscene profits from the taxpayer by using work crews from the nearby State Penitentiary. One of the workers entered a dorm, went into the women's showers, and peeked under the curtain at a startled student. When the student reported his description, which matched the blue work uniforms, etc., of the prison crew, she was denounced as being a racist, and attacked with "how could she have gotten a detailed description if she was so startled?" etc.

The university claimed to conduct an investigation, and--to my knowledge--they still use criminal labor on campus.

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