{"id":166184,"date":"2026-02-06T04:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:13:28","slug":"oakland-university-students-describe-fear-after-stabbing-triggers-campus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166184\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland University students describe fear after stabbing triggers campus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. \u2013 Students at Oakland University expressed fear and unease following a stabbing incident that led to a campus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incident occurred on Thursday, Feb. 5, around 8:30 p.m. near Van Wagoner House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s nothing to send a quick text, hey, let me in real quick,\u201d one student said, referring to the suspect possibly knowing people on campus. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what his motive was, who he even stabbed. So it\u2019s just really uneasy,\u201d said student Madison Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When asked if they were scared to be outside their dorms, one student admitted, \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie, like, I keep looking around, I just keep looking at the cars, driving cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">School officials describe the suspect as a dark-complexioned Black man wearing dark clothing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/06\/oakland-university-lockdown-continues-as-police-search-for-assault-suspect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/06\/oakland-university-lockdown-continues-as-police-search-for-assault-suspect\/\">He is believed to be traveling on foot and remains at large<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">O.U. URGENT: Aggravated assault reported on campus .  Lockdown until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oakland University (@oaklandu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oaklandu\/status\/2019592054339190874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jordan added, \u201cThat is very unsettling. Because he has a knife, he could have a gun, he could have anything else. Unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Students shared that they were still trying to piece together details. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jordan said, \u201cHonestly, all I know is that he was stabbed in his back. There was a lot of blood loss. I did see him getting loaded onto the stretcher, but I didn\u2019t see his face because he was covered to probably help stop the bleeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incident reportedly occurred inside a dormitory in Hamlin Hall, and students confirmed that those they know in the affected dorms were safe and in their rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI have friends that live in Hamlin Hall. I live in East Vandy, but in Hamlin I know like a lot a lot of people. I don\u2019t know who got stabbed. I didn\u2019t know who did the stabbing. I don\u2019t know any of that, but I just know that I do have people in there and they\u2019re safe. They\u2019re good. They are in their rooms,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The stabbing, according to the girls, which happened around 8:15 p.m., has led to a subsequent lockdown and has left the campus community concerned as the suspect remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThey took great initiative making sure all of us were safe, as far as I\u2019m concerned, the situation still happened,\u201d another girl said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. \u2013 Students at Oakland University expressed fear and unease following a stabbing incident that led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144,1609,3414],"class_list":["post-166184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-university","tag-rochester-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}