A student has been charged in a hate-motivated stabbing of two other students and a university professor during a class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo in Canada, authorities say.
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Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, a 24-year-old international student who recently graduated from the university, 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 and mischief under $5,000. Police were called at 3:35 p.m. to a “report of a stabbing inside a classroom at Hagey Hall" at the university, which is located approximately 70 miles west of Toronto.
“Through investigation, it was determined that three victims were injured as a result of the incident,” authorities said. “Two females and one male were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
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