CNN —
A 24-year-old pupil has been charged with stabbing 3 radical during a sex studies people astatine the University of Waterloo successful Canada this week successful what constabulary are calling a “hate-motivated incident.”
The suspect, Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, is an planetary pupil who precocious graduated from the university, Waterloo Regional Police Service Chief Mark Crowell said during a Thursday quality conference.
Villalba-Aleman is accused of targeting the sex studies class, and “investigators judge this was a hate-motivated incidental related to sex look and sex identity,” according to a quality merchandise from the Waterloo Regional Police Service. He has been charged with 3 counts of aggravated assault; 4 counts of battle with a weapon; 2 counts of possessing a limb for a unsafe purpose; and mischief nether $5,000.
“It is some bittersweet and disturbing that this incidental has occurred during Pride month,” Crowell said. “We anticipation this incidental does not diminish from these celebrations but, instead, encourages america each to travel together.”
Police accidental the fishy walked into a assemblage lecture schoolroom connected Wednesday astir 3:30 p.m. and stabbed a 38-year-old professor, a 20-year-old pistillate pupil and a 19-year-old antheral pupil with a knife. Roughly 40 students were wrong the schoolroom astatine the clip of the attack, constabulary said.
At 3:37 p.m., constabulary received aggregate 911 calls from students astatine the university, saying radical were stabbed wrong a classroom, Crowell said. The archetypal constabulary serviceman arrived connected the country wrong 3 minutes, the main said.
The victims’ injuries are superior but not life-threatening, and each were being treated astatine hospitals, constabulary spokesperson Cherri Greeno told CNN Wednesday.
Officers recovered the fishy successful the aforesaid gathering wherever the stabbings took spot – Hagey Hall – and placed him nether apprehension “without further incident,” Crowell said. The fishy initially posed arsenic a unfortunate earlier officers rapidly identified him, helium added.
Villalba-Aleman was not a subordinate of the class, Crowell said, but spoke with the prof of the people “before attacking her with 2 ample knives without provocation.”
Several students attempted to halt the onslaught portion others fled the room, Crowell said. As students were trying to escape, the fishy stabbed 2 students and attempted to stab a 3rd student, who was not injured, helium said.
“We person since sought judicial authorizations to hunt the suspect’s location to further our investigation,” Crowell said during the quality conference. “At this point, there’s nary accusation to suggest the fishy coordinated with anyone other successful carrying retired this attack.”
The stabbings prompted the assemblage to contented orders to vacate the gathering and structure successful spot bid arsenic constabulary responded to the scene.
Waterloo is astir 70 miles westbound of Toronto.
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