Lubbock man killed in Israel stabbing rampage

A West Point graduate from Lubbock died after he was stabbed while on a trip to Israel in an attack that wounded at least 10 others.

Taylor Force, a US Army veteran and MBA student, dead after stabbing rampage in Israel. https://t.co/A9H0ywpim4 pic.twitter.com/CDR1l6gPjz — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 9, 2016

Taylor Force, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was killed on Tuesday near the port of Jaffa.

"This horrific act of violence has robbed our Vanderbilt family of a young hopeful life and all of the bright promise that he held for bettering our greater world," Vanderbilt University chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said in a statement.

The school said Force was on a university business school trip to study global entrepreneurship and learn about start-ups in Israel.

"All other Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff on the trip are safe," Zeppos said.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, tweeted a message of support about Force: "May his memory be a blessing," he wrote.

The attack happened near the time U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived at the Peres Center for Peace, about a mile away.

The Jerusalem Post said the assailant was a 22-year-old Palestinian. He escaped on foot after the attack, running between cars stopped on the road and stabbing motorists. He wounded a number of people before he was shot and subdued by Israeli police, the Jerusalem Post reported.

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According to his LinkedIn page, Force graduated from the United States Military Academy in 2009 with a degree in engineering and industrial management. He was commissioned into the field artillery and served more than five years in the Army, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.