1 Dead, 3 Injured In Stabbings On University Campus

An attacker with a machete-like knife fatally stabbed one person to death and wounded at least three others with “potentially serious injuries” on Monday on the University of Texas campus.

Austin police say one person is in custody Monday afternoon.

Student Rachel Prichett said she was standing in line at a food truck outside a gym when she saw a man with a large knife approach the person standing behind her.

“The guy was standing next to me,” Prichett said. “He grabbed him by the shoulder and shoved the knife in it. I just started running as fast as I could.”

Another student, Ray Arredondo, said he was walking to his car when a mass of students near the gym started running.

“They were just screaming, ‘Run! Get out of here!'” Arredondo said.The University of Texas is blocks from downtown Austin and the Texas capitol building and is one of the nation’s largest universities.

University Police Chief David Carter said it would be “premature” to discuss the suspect’s motive and “what was going through his mind.”