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Professor fatally stabbed on USC campus, student arrested

03 December 2016 07:34 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. A professor was stabbed to death on the University of Southern California campus on Friday by a male student who has been taken into custody, police said.

USC President CL Max Nikias identified the victim as psychology professor and neuroscientist Bosco Tjan in a letter to the USC community.

The stabbing happened just after 4.30pm inside the school's Seely G. Mudd building, the site of a lab that Tjan ran and in the heart of campus, police said.

Investigators believe the attack was not random and 'was the result of a personal dispute,' according to the USC Department of Public Safety.

Tjan, an expert in vision cognition and perception, stabbed in the chest and was found dead with several stab wounds, officials said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

He has been affiliated with the university since January 2001 and was a co-director of the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, according to his LinkedIn.