Student planned to attack classmate before stabbing at ASU West, police say

GLENDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — Newly obtained court documents allege the 19-year-old woman accused of stabbing a student at a West Valley campus of Arizona State University had planned the attack the night before.

Kaci Sloan has been booked into the Maricopa County jail on multiple felony charges.(Arizona's Family)

ASU Police say the suspect, identified in arresting documents as Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan of Glendale, stabbed Mara Daffron at the Sands Classroom building at the ASU West campus on Thursday, Sept. 19.

The documents state that officers found the victim lying on the ground in the courtyard area as bystanders tried to help her, which included using a shirt to try and stop the bleeding.

Authorities interviewed 13 witnesses, including a university professor, who said Sloan attacked Daffron in the left shoulder and left side of her body “without any provocation or any words spoken” while inside the classroom.

Those witnesses told police that two people had tried to intervene and stop the attack, including trying to restrain Sloan, before they fell to the ground. Ultimately, one of them disarmed Sloan by pulling the knife away from her hand and kicking it out of reach.

Daffron was hospitalized and, before she underwent surgery, told an attending officer, “I’m just scared because I don’t know why the f**k she would stab me.”

She suffered serious injuries to her spleen but is expected to fully recover.

Detectives looked inside Sloan’s car but found nothing related to the investigation. However, a search of her backpack revealed a handwritten letter stating verbiage about what she was “about to commit,” the paperwork said. Police noted that the letter “does not specifically state what she was referring to.”

In an interview with investigators, Sloan reportedly admitted that she came to class to “hurt somebody” and planned the attack the night before. Sloan said she knew the victim’s first name but did not know anything else about her.

Sloan also said she had considered two different people to attack but chose that victim because the other person was “a veteran” and believed the victim she decided on was “an easier target.”

Police say in that interview, Sloan said “something changed” that night that caused her to believe by hurting someone, her problems would “go away.”

Sloan was booked into the Maricopa County jail on multiple charges, and held on a $250,000 cash-only bond.

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