Student: Suspect said goal was killing spree but 'blade broke'

Dylan Andrew Quick, the 20-year-old charged in the April 9 mass stabbing of 14 people at Lone Star College-Cy Fair, is denied bail in the 339th state District Court at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse on Friday, May 10, 2013, in Houston. less Dylan Andrew Quick, the 20-year-old charged in the April 9 mass stabbing of 14 people at Lone Star College-Cy Fair, is denied bail in the 339th state District Court at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse on ... more Photo: Mayra Beltran Photo: Mayra Beltran Image 1 of / 56 Caption Close Student: Suspect said goal was killing spree but 'blade broke' 1 / 56 Back to Gallery

The suspect in the stabbings of 14 people at Lone Star College said he was trying to go on a killing spree but was thwarted by a broken knife blade, a fellow student told the Chronicle.

Minutes before the stabbing rampage, Demond Lago was arrested by Cy-Fair campus police on a trespassing offense. While he was waiting, police brought in the stabbings suspect, identified as Dylan Quick, 20, and put him in the holding area with Lago.

"We were sitting on the floor while a cop sat in a chair," Lago said. "I asked him, did you do it? And he said yes. Then the cop told us to stop talking to each other."

When the officer looked away, Lago said, he asked Quick, "What were you trying to do? He said he was trying to go on a killing spree but the (expletive) blade broke."

Lago said the officer saw them talking again, and placed them in separate rooms, ending the conversation.

The slashing spree finally ended with the help of Ryan Ballard, a Lone Star sophomore who tackled Quick with the help of another student. They restrained him until police arrived.

Ballard said he was walking to his biology class in the Health Science Center building when he noticed blood in the stairway.

"I thought it was just a regular nosebleed until I started to get up the stairs and I saw more and more blood," said Ballard, 19. "I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, what's going on?' "

Ballard said he looked up to see three girls screaming and crying, one of them holding her bleeding neck.

"I turned around and I heard someone say, 'Stop him!' and I saw this guy running from the building," he recalled.

Ballard said another student who he did not know grabbed Quick, while he pushed him to the ground.

"I'm a pretty big dude," said Ballard, who stands 6 feet 4 inches and weighs about 235 pounds. "I pushed him down with my elbow and I had my knee on his back while he (student) was holding his face in the ground."

"It's still kind of shaky," he added. "If we wouldn't have stopped him, who knows what he would have done?"