Dylan Quick in the custody of sherrif's office investigators after the Lone Star college stabbings. Photograph: Cody Duty/AP
A Texas college student has been charged after at least 14 people were stabbed on the campus he attended near Houston.
The Harris County sheriff's office said in a statement that Dylan Quick, 20, had been planning the attack at the Lone Star College System's campus in Cypress for some time. He was charged with three counts of aggravated assault.
At least 14 people were wounded when Quick allegedly went from building to building armed with a boxcutter-style knife that left a fragment embedded in one of the victims. Other pieces were found scattered around and the handle was in Quick's backpack, police said.
Authorities at Lone Star college put the campus on lockdown as reports of the attacks spread on Tuesday morning.
Robert Rasa, a fire department spokesman, said the injuries of four people were serious enough to require evacuation to the hospital by helicopter.
Local radio broadcast interviews with two students who said they saw one woman who had been stabbed in the mouth. Authorities credited students with tackling the suspect and subduing him.
Harris county sheriff Adrian Garcia said the authorities received a 911 call at 11.12am. "The call was described as male on the loose stabbing people," he said. Garcia said two of the 14 injured were in critical condition.
Michael Chalfan, a student, said that he saw police shoot the suspect with a Taser as he ran outside one of the main entrances near the science building. "When they Tasered him, they gang-tackled him to the ground," Chalfan said. "He was just running away from the police."
Chalfan, who said he took a drama class with the suspect, described him as eccentric and a target for bullies. "He dresses weird, he wears gloves and often carried around toys like stuffed animals. He was a really friendly kid ... a joyful person."
The college, in Cypress, about 25 miles (40km) north-west of downtown Houston, remained locked down after the incident and was closed for the rest of Tuesday.
The attack came three months after a different Lone Star campus was the site of a shooting in which two people were hurt. The suspected gunman in that incident is charged with aggravated assault.
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