USC
campus on alert after stabbings
By
Annie Muske-Dukes
Daily Trojan
LOS
ANGELES (U-Wire) -- The University of Southern
California is under a crime alert after
two stabbings occurred within ten minutes
of each other near the school's main campus
this Sunday.
The
attacks occurred between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
on Sunday.
The
Department of Public Safety posted the crime
alert later that day, and sent an e-mail
to the student body Thursday evening.
The
first stabbing involved a group of University
of Southern California students who were
walking near the intersection of 29th and
Hoover Streets.
A
white Lincoln Towncar with no license plates
stopped in front of the students, and a
Hispanic male who was approximately six
feet tall, 180 pounds and 20 years old,
exited the car, according to the crime alert.
The
man had a knife and tried to instigate a
fight, and the students ran away, according
to DPS.
One
student was stabbed in the upper left shoulder,
says Eric Dillon, a firefighter at fire
station number 15 who responded to the call
regarding the second stabbing.
DPS,
the Los Angeles Police Department and the
Los Angeles Fire Department responded.
DPS
and LAPD were unable to locate the suspects,
and LAFD took the student to California
Hospital Medical Center.
The
second victim was a 15-year-old boy from
the neighborhood, Dillon says.
The
boy was walking on 28th Street when the
same car involved in the first stabbing
and carrying the same four men pulled up
next to him, says Alberto Mendez, Assignment
Editor of KCAL 9 News in Los Angeles.
The
men accused the boy of stealing something
from them, then one exited the car and cut
the boy on the face with a knife, according
to DPS.
A
member of the Delta Chi fraternity saw the
incident occur and took the boy into the
frat house.
"(They)
took him in and took care of him and bandaged
him up," Dillion says.
DPS
responded to the incident at 1:41 a.m.,
and the LAFD took the boy to Los Angeles
County-USC hospital.
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