BERKELEY — A 20-year-old autistic man was charged with attempted murder Thursday for allegedly stabbing an administrator at his West Berkeley special education school over a recent job loss that he blamed on the administration.

“I’m going to kill you all,” police said the San Leandro resident Angel Juarez exclaimed before retrieving a knife and stabbing an administrator at Via Center five times — in the head, neck, and back — on Tuesday afternoon.

Police said the administrator, a woman who has not been identified, suffered “non-life-threatening” injuries and has been released from a hospital.

Juarez appeared in an Oakland courtroom on Thursday afternoon on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and enhancements alleging great bodily injury. He was referred to the public defender’s office and ordered to return to court on Monday, according to prosecutors.

Via Center on Sixth Street is a nonprofit, private special education school that, according to police, Juarez was attending “due to multiple diagnoses including autism.” According to the school’s website, it is a small school “largely comprised of students who have been unsuccessful in multiple public and other non-public programs.”

Juarez was meeting with administrators on Tuesday afternoon about having recently lost a job due to absences when he became upset and threatened to kill them, according to court documents.

As the victim was locking a door so Juarez couldn’t leave the office, he retrieved a knife from a filing cabinet and stabbed her twice in the back, twice in the neck, and once in the head, police said. He ran away afterward, dropped the knife, and was apprehended later in the day by the California Highway Patrol in Albany.

Juarez told detectives that he stabbed the woman “out of anger because he lost his job and felt the administrators were to blame,” according to a police probable cause declaration. He “showed remorse and regret for what he had done,” police said.

He is being held without bail in Santa Rita Jail.