The 25-year-old Mountainside man is charged with two counts of attempted murder and weapons offenses
PISCATAWAY -- A 25-year-old Mountainside man has been charged with stabbing a Rutgers University faculty member and student Friday afternoon at the college's business school in Piscataway, authorities said Monday.
Joshua S. Thompson faces two counts of attempted murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon, Rutgers police said in a news release Monday afternoon.
Thompson allegedly entered the Rutgers Business School on the Livingston campus and attacked the faculty member and student with a knife in an office about 2:30 p.m., authorities said at the time.
Thompson is a former Rutgers student. He enrolled in the business school in September 2013 but was not enrolled this semester, university officials said.
No motive in the attack has been provided.
Rutgers University police Chief Kenneth Cop said Thompson is in custody but didn't provide a further update on his condition or the conditions of the victims. One was in critical condition as of Sunday evening.
Students said they heard screams and saw a woman covered with blood on the fifth floor of the business school. Police said they had a suspect in custody at about 3:30 p.m.
Rutgers put the business school on lockdown and sent an alert to students warning them to avoid the area. Some students said their classes continued in the six-story, glass-and-steel building during the lockdown.
Police stood outside the doors and blocked nearby roads until the alert was lifted around 4 p.m.
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