Professor And Two Students Injured In Hate Crime Stabbings During Ontario College Gender Studies Class

CTV News reports:

A triple stabbing during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo is believed to have been a hate-motivated attack, police said Thursday as they laid multiple charges against a 24-year-old former student. The Wednesday attack injured three people and shocked the university campus located about 100 kilometres west of Toronto.

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman [photo], a recently graduated international student, faces three counts of aggravated assault, four counts of assault with a weapon and two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, police said.

“Investigators have reason to believe that this was a planned and targeted attack motivated by hate related to gender expression and gender identity,” Waterloo Regional Police Chief Mark Crowell said at a Thursday news conference.

The New York Times reports:

The police said that on Wednesday, at about 3:40 p.m., about 40 students were in a classroom when the suspect came in and stabbed three people: a 38-year-old female professor; a 20-year-old female student and a 19-year-old male student. All three were taken to the hospital with “serious but non-life-threatening” injuries, the police said.

In what he described as a “shocking attack,” James Rush, a vice president of the university, said in a statement on Thursday that the stabbing took place during a lecture in a class called Philosophy 202 — Gender Studies.

Chief Mark Crowell of the Waterloo Regional Police said at a news conference that the suspect had entered the classroom and spoke briefly to the professor, apparently to confirm the subject matter of the class. Then, he stabbed her with two knives, stabbed the other two students and attempted to stab a third.

The Toronto Star reports:

Local, federal and provincial leaders have spoken out about the stabbing, condemning this violent act. Speaking to reporters in Brantford on Thursday morning, Premier Doug Ford said the stabbing at the University of Waterloo was “unacceptable” and expressed concern for the victims.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said news of the stabbing was “horrifying and unacceptable. This type of violence must always be condemned.” Marit Stiles, leader of Ontario’s NDP, said she was thinking of the students and staff affected, and called the news “horrifying.”

Hagey Hall reopened on Thursday after being temporarily closed Wednesday night and the campus is open for all scheduled activities, said university spokesperson Nick Manning.

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO STABBING ATTACK WAS HATE MOTIVATED: POLICE

“A 24-year-old recent graduate from the University of Waterloo is facing 10 charges after reportedly stabbing three people, including a professor, during a gender studies philosophy class.”https://t.co/bBHlhETAio

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) June 29, 2023

Jordan recently called for gender-affirming physicians to be drowned

Today a gender studies prof and two others are in the hospital after a stabbing at Waterloo

I’d be surprised if the attacker saw the tweet but people absolutely need to stop labelling this rhetoric as harmless pic.twitter.com/aNCpQRSVj7

— Riley Dawson (@Gnarlywhale) June 29, 2023

Waterloo regional police say a 24 year old, international student has been charged in a hate-motivated crime related to gender expression & gender identity, in connection to a stabbing that injured three people during a gender studies class at University of Waterloo on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/IVbSx91qK4

— ChudsOfTikTok (@ChudsOfTikTok) June 29, 2023

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— name cannot be blank (@UNDERTHEBED) June 29, 2023

International student, Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, charged with hate-motivated stabbing in gender studies class at University of Waterloo https://t.co/ZdS196u71h pic.twitter.com/jCZayLAD2a

— National Post (@nationalpost) June 29, 2023

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