Deaf student charged in Lone Star campus stabbings chillingly tells police of his 'fantasies to stab people to death since elementary school' as it emerges the long-planned college attack 'was thwarted because his knife broke'
A deaf student has admitted to slashing 14 of his schoolmates in a stabbing spree across his Texas college campus today - telling police he had fantasies of stabbing people to death since elementary school.
Dylan Andrew Quick, 20, also told a fellow inmate that his real plan was to kill the students he attacked but the razor-knife he was using broke mid-way through his planned assault.
The accountancy student, of Cypress, Texas, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the random stabbing attacks which took place across Lone Star College's campus from 11am.
Violent fantasies: Police reported that Dylan Quick had admitted his role in the Lone Star College stabbings last night and had fantasized about knifing people to death since elementary school
Concerns: Tiffany Quick, pictured with her son, had enlisted her son into library classes as a teenager because she was fearful he wasn't socializing enough. He was home-schooled as a child after being born deaf
He allegedly slashed at students, many of whom were female, in a random rampage across the campus this morning cutting them in the face or neck.
Two of the victims were still said to be in a critical condition last night.
Donna Hawkins, an official with the Harris County Prosecutor's Office announced the charges last night and said the student, described as 'a shy loner', had admitted to the attacks, he had planned over a long period of time.
'According to the statement the suspect voluntarily gave investigators, he has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school,' she said. 'He also indicated that he has been planning this incident for some time.'
The Houston Chronicle also reported fellow student Desmond Lago, who had been arrested by campus police on a trespassing offense, claim he had spoken to Quick, who told him of his thwarted intentions to kill his victims.
'We were sitting on the floor while a cop sat in a chair,' Lago told the newspaper 'I asked him, did you do it? And he said yes. Then the cop told us to stop talking to each other.'
Happy: In a teenage blog, Dylan Quick came across as a happy teenager talking about fun holidays with his parents and his love of books
Stabbing suspect: This photograph, posted onto Instagram, is allegedly Dylan Quick, the assailant who allegedly rampaged around Lone Star community college this afternoon
Apprehended: The suspect in the Lone Star College stabbings is led away by law enforcement officials this afternoon
When the officer looked away, Lago said, he asked Quick, 'What were you trying to do? He said he was trying to go on a killing spree but the (expletive) blade broke.'
The Sheriff's Office confirmed that Quick's 'razor-type' knife broke during his attacks.
'There were pieces of blade in at least one victim, broken blade pieces in the area where the cutting occurred, and the handle to a razor-type knife was found in a backpack that Quick was carrying when he was arrested,' Hawkins added.
Quick was profiled on a university website just seven days ago and presented as a success story for the school's outreach work with the local community.
This map shows where Lone Star College Cy-Fair Campus is near to Houston, in Cypress, Texas, where a multiple stabbings incident took place today
The 12-year-old home-schooled boy visited an on campus branch of Harrison County Public Library to learn and indulge his love of books.
The website spoke about how his mother, Tiffany Quick, was fearful he was not socializing fully because of his disability.
The post on April 1 reads: 'Dylan first started coming to campus at the age of 12 when his mother Tiffany involved him in the library’s teen activities.
'Initially reluctant to participate, Dylan was home-schooled and very shy, and Tiffany wanted him to be in a setting to socialize with other teens and also to be intellectually stimulated.'
'Tiffany had removed Dylan from the public school system when the school placed him in a classroom for students with special needs. There, Dylan stagnated.'
'During the first two years of Dylan’s participation in the library’s teen activities, he rarely spoke. But after those two years it was if a floodgate had opened up and Dylan became loquacious, sharing his analyses of literature and socializing with his book club comrades.'
Quick was born deaf and received a cochlear implant at the age of seven, which improved his hearing.
The blog said: 'In addition to a love a math, he still has a passion for reading, cultivated and nurtured in the library book clubs. His room at home, he explains, barely contains his 1,000+ collection of books. In the future he plans to build and host an online international book club to connect people of all ages from around the world.'
He was planning to transfer to the University of Houston after earning his associate degree.
He wrote for a library blog under the name Rock Star as a teen and presented his life as a normal happy child.
He listed his favorite book as The Phantom of the Opera and talked about his love of bands such as Green Day and U2.
He spoke about happy family getaways with his parents and his concerns for the environment and the homeless.
Neighbors today confirmed that Dylan was a quiet but kind boy and spoke of their shock at the incident.
Michael Lindon told the Houston Chronicle he was a 'nice kid' who is 'real quiet and keeps to himself'.
'He doesn't have any friends. Nobody comes over there,' Lincoln added.
He also told of how the student recently helped him when his car was struck by a branch,
Officers attended the family home last night where they were speaking to Dylan's parents Tiffany and Tim.
He is believed to be an only child.
Steven Maida, Erik Bertrand and another student named James managed to wrestle Quick to the floor and waited for police to arrive following the stabbings.
Maida posted a picture of Quick onto his Instagram account
In this photo provided by Teaundrae Perryman, a victim is loaded into an ambulance after being wounded in a stabbing attack on the Lone Star community college system's Cypress, Texas campus on Tuesday
A victim of the multiple stabbings is wheeled into an ambulance outside the Lone Star community college today
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Emergency workers rush to move an injured woman from science block of the Lone Star community college today
The attack began at about 11.15 a.m. at the rear of the Health Sciences Building on the Cy-Fair campus on Barker Cypress Road.
The school went on lock-down after initial reports there was a second assailant - but Harris County Sheriff's spokesman Alan Bernstein said he was sure that one one suspect acted alone.
'The initial reports said we have two suspects, but what I believe now is it was the same person running from building to building,' a police spokesman said at a press conference.
At around 2 p.m., Marianna Sviland, a teacher at the community college said that students and staff were being allowed back into the school.
The school then closed for the day and will reopen on Wednesday.
The school has approximately 90,000 students spread over more than a dozen campuses.
A different Lone Star system campus was the site of a January shooting. Two people were wounded, and a 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated assault.
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This frame grab provided by KTRK shows the scene above the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas, today after the mass stabbing