Police say a suspect has been arrested in the stabbing death of a psychology professor at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on Friday.
(FOX)- A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department announced that the suspect was a male student.
Officials said the student was set to be interviewed Friday night and that his name would be released after he was booked.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias identified the professor who was killed as Bosco Tjan. Officials said Tjan was pronounced dead at the scene.
Tjan joined USC in 2001, taught in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and served as co-director of the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center, Nikias said.
“As the Trojan family mourns Professor Tjan’s untimely passing, we will keep his family in our thoughts,” Nikias said.
According to the USC Department of Public Safety, the attack is believed to be the “result of a personal dispute,” also stating that investigators believed the attack was not a random one.
The university’s Trojans Alert emergency texting service quickly put out a message urging students, faculty and employees to stay away from the area that the attack occured.
“Police-related incident in progress at Seely G. Mudd. No danger to USC or the community. Stay away from the area,” the text read.
Chris Purington, project manager at Tjan’s lab, said he never heard of anyone having a problem with Tjan — a married father of one son listed in public records as 50 years old — and had no idea who would have wanted him dead.