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One of four women stabbed in what officials said was a random attack on a Louisiana campus has died, the school announced.
Annie Richardson was then in critical condition Monday’s attack She died of her injuries on Tuesday evening, according to a statement issued by Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.
“My prayers are with Annie’s husband, Peter, the entire Richardson family, and everyone who called Annie a friend,” university president Les Jess said. “Our tech family will feel the pain of this incident for some time, but we are fortunate to have such a caring community to rely on as we grieve together.”
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Two other women were taken to the hospital and a fourth woman, a retired teacher, was injured but refused treatment in what officials say was a random knife attack outside a recreation center on the university’s north Louisiana campus. Richardson was stabbed when she left an exercise class.
One victim was hospitalized in serious condition, while the other was recovering and could be released from the hospital early Wednesday, according to an earlier email from the university.
The suspect, Jacoby Johnson, 23, was arrested minutes after the attack. He will now face a second-degree murder charge, in addition to attempted murder charges, the university said.
Neither the court clerk nor the district attorney’s office in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, had information on whether Johnson, a senior at the university, had an attorney who could comment.
Richardson lived in Ruston. She was an artist who worked mainly in mixed media works, she said website.
Freshman technology student Colin Campbell, from Minden, He told KTBS-TV He heard screaming coming from the center, so he ran to it and saw two injured women, including Richardson, who was stabbed in the throat.
Campbell said he put Richardson and Cynthia Woodard, a retired Lincoln Parish judge, in his pickup truck and drove to the hospital, but Richardson collapsed in the back seat when he arrived.
Retired teacher Debbie Hollimon of Ruston told the Ruston Daily Leader she heard screaming and saw a man attacking another woman.
“I ran screaming, ‘Get away from her! Get away from her!'” Hollimon said. “He stands and looks at me without any expression, just as he could be.”
She said the attacker had a short knife in his hand. He scratched Hollimon on the right side of her face with the knife and then walked away.
Authorities identified another victim as graduate student Dominic McCain.
Louisiana Tech Police Chief Randall Hermes said Johnson lived in an off-campus apartment, and although he was arrested last February for marijuana possession, authorities were not aware of anything “that would indicate troubling behavior.” . Daily leader.
“There was no rhyme or reason” to the attack, he said.
The stabbing incident shocked students at the university, which has an enrollment of more than 11,000, and residents of the small city of Ruston, located in north-central Louisiana, which has a population of about 22,000.
The university said counseling is available to students individually and in groups. A campus blood drive for the victims is planned for Thursday.
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