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tricky_ab · 10-09-2009, 11:16 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/..._ucla_stabbing

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LOS ANGELES – Students and faculty at UCLA are stunned following a horrific attack in a campus chemistry lab in which a male student allegedly slashed the throat of a female student.

The woman underwent surgery for multiple stab wounds at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and was in stable condition Thursday night, Los Angeles police said.

Damon Thompson, 20, was arrested in the same chemistry building shortly after the stabbing Thursday. He was booked Thursday night on suspicion of attempted murder and was being held on $1 million bail, said Los Angeles police Officer Sara Faden.

UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said the victim and suspect were both 20-year-old seniors taking an organic chemistry class along with other students who were in the undergraduate teaching lab at the time.

Cyril Baida, a teaching assistant who was working in a lab across the hall, said he saw the victim stagger out of the lab while another teaching assistant applied pressure to her neck, Baida said.

"The poor girl was completely drenched with blood. She was talking at first but then she started fading away," he said. "We told her she was going to be fine and to keep breathing so she didn't pass out. I told the other TA that he was doing great so he didn't faint either."

Baida said he did not know the victim or the suspect but was told that they were lab partners or had worked together in a small group on projects in their lab section.

Los Angeles city police and campus police interviewed about 30 witnesses who were in or near the lab and might have seen the attack, Campus Police Assistant Chief Jeff Young said. The motive is under investigation.

"Her TA — that guy deserves a medal. He had his hands around her wounds and was yelling, 'Call 911,'" said Baida, a 26-year-old biochemistry graduate student. "I called 911 and told him to bring her into our lab. He kept holding her so she wouldn't bleed until the paramedics arrived."

Baida said the organic chemistry lab where the attack took place is a demanding class.

"All my students have taken it and they hate it. Usually people bond during classes like that because they have to study together. I don't think it was so tough that it makes people go crazy," he said. "It's awful, but things like this can happen anywhere."

UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block said the campus community was shocked by the attack and "wishing for the speedy recovery of the young woman who was injured."

Organic Chemistry IS a hard subject (I've seen plenty of freaked/stressed out undergrads because of it), but not hard enough to kill someone over.

xBlastoisex · 10-09-2009, 11:19 AM

so wait, he did it because he was pissed off? or what im confused.

dt-p88 · 10-09-2009, 11:21 AM

that's not cool a guy slashing a girls throat WOW

Edgar · 10-09-2009, 11:22 AM

What is wrong with people now days. shame!

tricky_ab · 10-09-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by xBlastoisex

so wait, he did it because he was pissed off? or what im confused.

As of right now, it sounds like this kid was stressed the hell out and snapped (thus the incident)...

driftsilvias13 · 10-09-2009, 11:39 AM

after reading this, i keep on checking my neck.

sileighty83 · 10-09-2009, 11:43 AM

seriously no matter how tough shit gets, you don't go slashing ppls throats WTH is wrong with ppl

Mi Beardo es Loco · 10-09-2009, 11:49 AM

I don't know what the other guys are thinking. I witnessed a guy smack his girl and I beat the everloving shit out of him. Sometimes shit goes well beyond being in shock. It's like when the terrorists took over a plane with a box cutter. I couldn't help but think "c'mon". Even if he had a knife, you have to go after him with a stool or something. I just would think that the natural reaction of a human is trying to stop a bad thing from happening, not just stand there in shock.

qt_240 · 10-09-2009, 11:53 AM

Mann... I remember Organic Chemistry .. I hated every moment of that class ... ESP. Lab.. but damn slashing a girl's throat over it.. that guy had issues...

turbobrick · 10-09-2009, 11:59 AM

I thought organic chemistry was fun.

ronmcdon · 10-09-2009, 01:04 PM

so many violent crimes these days, geez.
wonder if there's any correlation with the economy.

zylvia213 · 10-09-2009, 01:23 PM

yea no reason for people to start getting all crazy like that. Thats some crazy ass shit yo!

azndoc · 10-09-2009, 01:52 PM

Whoa rethinking going to UCLA now.

tsx1racer04 · 10-09-2009, 01:57 PM

Sucks, I heard about this last night while in my chem lab class in ucsb. So sad, after hearing that and doing my lab, I was seriously guarding myself.

I LUV MY S13 · 10-09-2009, 01:57 PM

yea man this guy has other issues....school gets tough but i would never even think about doing crazy shit like this

sacco sideways · 10-09-2009, 02:29 PM

not going to go to that school....

zylvia213 · 10-09-2009, 02:58 PM

thats like faces of death status.

ixfxi · 10-09-2009, 03:11 PM

Baida said the organic chemistry lab where the attack took place is a demanding class.

Demanding, eh?

Fucking students are pathetic. You wanna know demanding, run a business and pay your taxes. Get married and have children.... we'll see how fucking hard "chem lab" is then.

Fucking pussies. I can see Chris Rock say it now "Damn this class is so demanding, make me wanna slit a throat up in here"

Homer_Simpson · 10-09-2009, 03:38 PM

Both of the O-chem labs were enjoyable for me, easy A classes. I can't imagine how it could piss off someone enough to do something like this.

ronmcdon · 10-09-2009, 03:48 PM

Trying to find parking in UCLA makes me want to slit my own throat.
God, I dread that campus.

aziankingz · 10-09-2009, 03:55 PM

maybe that girl stole his parking spot?

ZX88 · 10-09-2009, 04:17 PM

my ex girlfriend use to tell me all the time how much she hated orgo. Hearing her complain drilled it into my head to never take those courses.

DCP94 · 10-09-2009, 04:47 PM

wow Orgo is bad but damn, this dude probably had other problems too

Sleepy240 · 10-09-2009, 05:15 PM

The article lacks alot of details IMO. They leave it WAY open to interp. Were they actually just "lab partners"? From what I can gather there is more motivation than a class being difficult. If the class was that difficult (IMO) he would have commited suicide rather than murder somebody else. This story is like Transformers, more than meets the eye.

ronmcdon · 10-09-2009, 06:59 PM

Well the article did state that motives were still under investigation.
It was merely described what happened, and that the victim & culprit knew each other.

The TA didn't say that the class causes homicide.
On the contrary, he just said he doesn't think it's so bad it would cause ppl to "go crazy" (and murder one another possibly?).
I wouldn't even bother speculating about the motives without more info.

"I don't think it was so tough that it makes people go crazy,"

drift_limo · 10-09-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sileighty83

seriously no matter how tough shit gets, you don't go slashing ppls throats WTH is wrong with ppl

people nothing
society ... everything.

thats funny dude gets mads then slashes throat...

people sigh*

Bubbles · 10-09-2009, 08:14 PM

I slept with my chemistry lab partner in college and was trying to give it a go with her blonde friend. (who wasn't having it)

But yeah, slashing her neck would have been fun to.

RiversideS13 · 10-09-2009, 08:22 PM

my friend from ucla biochem major said people try to mess each other's experiment all the time, so he was afraid to go to restroom at middle of lab.

jskateborders · 10-12-2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by turbobrick

I thought organic chemistry was fun.

wow, you would make bank tutoring then. Of all of the pre-med, pre-pharm I know, your the only person Ive ever heard say that

SochBAT · 10-12-2009, 08:27 AM

From my sister, "I'm not smart enough to be near there, so I'm okay."

10-09-2009, 11:22 AM	#4
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sileighty83 Zilvia Addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Socal Posts: 742 Trader Rating: (11) Feedback Score: 11 reviews	seriously no matter how tough shit gets, you don't go slashing ppls throats WTH is wrong with ppl __________________

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qt_240 Nissanaholic! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: CHI Posts: 2,122 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	Mann... I remember Organic Chemistry .. I hated every moment of that class ... ESP. Lab.. but damn slashing a girl's throat over it.. that guy had issues... __________________ Dorimonster.blogspot.com

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zylvia213 Nissanaholic! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: LOST ANGELES Posts: 1,978 Trader Rating: (36) Rides Gallery: zylvia213 Feedback Score: 36 reviews	yea no reason for people to start getting all crazy like that. Thats some crazy ass shit yo! __________________

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xBlastoisex Zilvia Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: indiana Posts: 183 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	so wait, he did it because he was pissed off? or what im confused.

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dt-p88 Zilvia Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: sl,ut Posts: 261 Trader Rating: (5) Feedback Score: 5 reviews	that's not cool a guy slashing a girls throat WOW

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ronmcdon Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: beverly hills Age: 89 Posts: 4,260 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	so many violent crimes these days, geez. wonder if there's any correlation with the economy.

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tsx1racer04 Zilvia Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: 223 Posts: 258 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Sucks, I heard about this last night while in my chem lab class in ucsb. So sad, after hearing that and doing my lab, I was seriously guarding myself.

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ixfxi Post Whore! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: bangin on my chest Account: BANNED #fucksupreme Age: 82 Posts: 5,932 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	Baida said the organic chemistry lab where the attack took place is a demanding class. Demanding, eh? Fucking students are pathetic. You wanna know demanding, run a business and pay your taxes. Get married and have children.... we'll see how fucking hard "chem lab" is then. Fucking pussies. I can see Chris Rock say it now "Damn this class is so demanding, make me wanna slit a throat up in here"

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Homer_Simpson Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Back in the Bay! Posts: 619 Trader Rating: (11) Feedback Score: 11 reviews	Both of the O-chem labs were enjoyable for me, easy A classes. I can't imagine how it could piss off someone enough to do something like this.

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DCP94 Zilvia Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Richmond Age: 34 Posts: 228 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	wow Orgo is bad but damn, this dude probably had other problems too

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Sleepy240 Zilvia Addict Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Reading, PA Age: 38 Posts: 780 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	The article lacks alot of details IMO. They leave it WAY open to interp. Were they actually just "lab partners"? From what I can gather there is more motivation than a class being difficult. If the class was that difficult (IMO) he would have commited suicide rather than murder somebody else. This story is like Transformers, more than meets the eye. __________________ Been awhile...

10-09-2009, 06:59 PM	#25
ronmcdon Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: beverly hills Age: 89 Posts: 4,260 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	Well the article did state that motives were still under investigation. It was merely described what happened, and that the victim & culprit knew each other. The TA didn't say that the class causes homicide. On the contrary, he just said he doesn't think it's so bad it would cause ppl to "go crazy" (and murder one another possibly?). I wouldn't even bother speculating about the motives without more info. "I don't think it was so tough that it makes people go crazy,"

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