The University of Texas Police Department today blamed a 'long term mental illness' for the stabbing incident that left one student dead and three others hurt, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
Kendrix White, 21, stabbed the students, apparently at random, Police Chief David Carter said."We know and have discovered that recently he was involutarily committed in this city," he said.
Carter says there are no signs that White targeted any specific students, and no indication that he was connected to any terrorist or larger group of any sort.
He says there have been incorrect reports that White had been targeting fraternity members, or targeting only white people.
"This was not a conspiracy, this was not a vendetta against any particular group," he said. "We have evidence that the individual was suffering from mental health issues."
He says it took his officers less than five minutes after the first 9-1-1 call was made for Kendrick to be in custody.Carter says White simply walked out of a building and started stabbing people.
A 'Go Fund Me' page asking for contributions to a memorial fund for Harrison Brown, the freshman who was killed, raised more than $30,000 in less than 12 hours early today.