AUSTIN, Texas – The man suspected of stabbing four students at the University of Texas says he carried a knife on campus for protection and that on the day of the attack he had walked the campus in a dream-like state.
"I pulled out my knife. My heart started beating really fast and no one moved and then I struck a table and no one acknowledged that I did that. They kept going on with their conversations," Kendrex J. White said.
White, 21, said in a jailhouse interview with KSAT sister station, KPRC in Houston, that he decided to carry a knife because his friends were carrying guns on campus, which is permissible under a new state law allowing concealed handguns on college campuses.
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He also said he does not remember the crime.
"I had a dream. It showed my face and I thought maybe it was possible I could have done it, but I didn't remember doing it myself, if that makes any sense," White said.
Authorities said following the May 1 stabbings, in which one student was killed and three others injured, that White suffered from mental health troubles.
He's being held on a murder charge.
State law says knives shorter than 5 ½ inches can be openly carried in public, but authorities say White was carrying one larger than that.
Click here to read the entire story and watch KPRC's interview with White.
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