--- description: Freshman Faisal Mohammad wounded four people, authorities said title: Police Identify Suspect in UC Merced School Stabbing Spree image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca80ed0f4afa7068/69886fcacf40a8efa9c40844/uc-merced-stabbing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Police Identify Suspect in UC Merced Stabbing Spree by [Erik Ortiz and Tracy Connor / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Erik Ortiz and Tracy Connor / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2015 6:35 PM CUT  Police tape is seen today outside the University of California’s Merced campus after a stabbing on November 4, 2015. Police tape is seen today outside the University of California’s Merced campus after a stabbing on November 4, 2015.Michael Robinson Chavez—Los Angeles Times/Polaris by [Erik Ortiz and Tracy Connor / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Erik Ortiz and Tracy Connor / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2015 6:35 PM CUT The knife-wielding student who was fatally shot by police following a stabbing rampage at the University of California’s Merced campus was identified Thursday as 18-year-old Faisal Mohammad. Mohammad was a freshman computer science and engineering major from Santa Clara, a Northern California community in the Bay Area, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said. A motive for the attack, which wounded four people, was not immediately released. Shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday, police said, Mohammad burst through a second-floor room in the Classroom and Office Building and stabbed one student with an 8- to 10-inch blade. A construction worker who overheard the noise… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News._ ](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uc-merced-stabbing-spree-police-id-suspect-faisal-mohammad-18-n458006?cid=par-time%5F20151105 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4101819/suspect-identifed-uc-merced-stabbings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4101819/suspect-identifed-uc-merced-stabbings/"},"headline":"Police Identify Suspect in UC Merced Stabbing Spree","datePublished":"2015-11-05T18:35:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:23:24.618Z","description":"Freshman Faisal Mohammad wounded four people, authorities said","url":"https://time.com/4101819/suspect-identifed-uc-merced-stabbings/","keywords":["Crime","tragedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca80ed0f4afa7068/69886fcacf40a8efa9c40844/uc-merced-stabbing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Erik Ortiz and Tracy Connor / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca80ed0f4afa7068/69886fcacf40a8efa9c40844/uc-merced-stabbing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"UC Merced Stabbing","caption":"UC Merced Stabbing","creditText":"Michael Robinson Chavez—Los Angeles Times/Polaris","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4101819/suspect-identifed-uc-merced-stabbings/","name":"Police Identify Suspect in UC Merced Stabbing Spree"}}]}] ```