Campus stabber’s plan detailed

College freshman plotted attack on class, officers.

Authorities say an angry college freshman’s violent plan for revenge against other students was delusional,

SAN FRANCISCO — A university freshman angry that he was kicked out of a study group carried a hunting knife, a backpack full of restraints and a detailed revenge plan into his classroom.

Faisal Mohammad, 18, planned to bind his classmates to their desks with zip-tie handcuffs from his backpack, which also contained a hammer, a nightvision scope and baggies of petroleum jelly, a possible explosive. He was going to make a fake 911 distress call, ambush responding officers with the knife and steal their guns to shoot a list of targeted students, including those in his study group.

But the elaborate plan described in his two-page manifesto was as delusional as it was violent, authorities said after Mohammad’s stabbing rampage left four wounded Wednesday at the University of California, Merced.

Campus police shot and killed Mohammad af- ter he stabbed two students, a university employee and a construction contractor who interrupted the attack as classes began on the campus in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley, 120 miles south of Sacramento. All the victims are recovering.

Mohammad’s plan for revenge was found on his body during an autopsy Thursday, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said. Mohammad discussed his anger at being ousted from the study group, the sheriff said, but Warnke didn’t know why the computer science and engineering major was excluded.

“He had delusions of grandeur,” Warnke said. “I don’t think he had any actual capability to carry it out.”

Mohammad’s plan was written in English and referenced the Muslim God Allah several times, Warnke said, but the teen was motivated by personal animosities. The attack had nothing to do with religion or terrorism, the sheriff said.

“We had a teenager who was upset he was kicked out of a study group,” Warnke said.