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The California college student who stabbed four people last month in a campus spree that ended when he was killed by campus police was described by his roommate as "an extreme Muslim" and carried a manifesto and a photocopy of an ISIS flag -- more than enough to convince John Price he was a terrorist. Yet, more than a month after the Nov. 4 attack at University of California Merced, local and federal authorities continue to insist that Faisal Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he'd been banished from a study group. Price, whose son Byron Price, a...

Faculty at the University of California-Merced reportedly held a “teach-in” Monday night to help students better understand the motives of 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad, who earlier this month wounded four people with a hunting knife before being killed by campus police. The conservative college news website The College Fixreported that the teach-in was “conspicuously” devoid of discussions of radical Islam, and instead “delved into topics such as how society’s notions of masculinity pressure men.” Mohammad, a freshman studying computer science at UC Merced, was found to have a printout image of the Islamic State flag alongside a handwritten manifesto with detailed...

A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow "to cut someone's head off" and as many as five reminders to "praise Allah," law enforcement authorities told FoxNews.com, while insisting that neither terrorism nor religion appear to be motives in the attack. In the two-page document found in Faisal Mohammad's pocket by the county coroner, the 18-year-old freshman wrote a numeric list outlining his plans of who he wanted to kill, and how, including beheading and shooting his victims, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told FoxNews.com...

According to Merced County Sheriff, the document detailed a list of targets and his intentions. The sheriff said the college freshman planned to tie students to their desks and draw police into the classroom where he planned on stabbing a police officer, taking his gun and then using it to shoot students in a dorm. According to the manifesto, Faisal was upset over getting kicked out of a study group and mad at a student. The sheriff also said he praised Allah in his writings.

A stabbing rampage at UC Merced did not appear to be motivated by politics or religion and is not being considered a terrorist act, university and law enforcement officials said Thursday. Authorities named Faisal Mohammad, 18, of Santa Clara, as the assailant who was shot and killed by campus police after stabbing four people, including two fellow students. Mohammad was a freshman computer science and engineering student. “We have no reason to believe that this was in any way related to terrorism,” UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland said at a news conference at the Merced County Sheriff’s Office. “It would...

The UC Merced student who wounded four people in a stabbing spree at the campus has been identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara. Merced Couty Sheriff Vern Warnke confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old student to the Sun-Star early Thursday.

A man who stabbed four people Wednesday morning at UC Merced before he was shot and killed by campus police was identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara. Mohammad, 18,was killed by UC Merced police just after 8 a.m. on Scholars Lane Bridge, about 40 yards from the two-story classroom building where investigator’s said his violent spree began. Sheriff Vern Warnke, who confirmed the identity to the Sun-Star, said investigators, including the FBI, were still looking into the motive for the attack and that it remained too early to release further details. Little information about Mohammad was...