The international student accused of stabbing three people at the University of Waterloo on June 28 appeared in court Tuesday from Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton.
"I didn't expect Waterloo to have that kind of violence. It's a pretty safe campus," says Shub Mano, among University of Waterloo students who say they're still feeling shaken after the June 28 stabbing incident in a gender studies classroom.
Advocates are sounding the alarm on gender-based violence, calling for a clear and urgent strategy from the provincial governments as femicides continue to rise. Ontario saw 30 femicides in 30 weeks, according to a new report by the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses.
The state of security is being questioned one week after horror hit Hagey Hall at the University of Waterloo, when a man allegedly stabbed three people in a gender issues class including one professor and two students.
A graduate of the University of Waterloo in Canada has been hit with multiple charges over a stabbing rampage during a gender studies class that left three people with serious injuries. The allegations: Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 24, is accused of walking into the class at around 3:30 p.m. on June 28 and stabbing three people, including the class’s 38-year-old professor and two students aged 19 and 20. As students scrambled out of the Hagey Hall classroom, he stabbed two and tried to attack a third, who was not injured.