At approximately 2:50 p.m. on Thursday, a Caucasian male, wearing a light tan hooded-sweatshirt and blue jeans, was subdued by campus security at the GET bus terminal on the Bakersfield College campus. The suspect was handcuffed and held to the ground until officers from the Bakersfield Police Department arrived to arrest him.
According to Xavier Hernandez, one of the three students involved in the incident that lead to the arrest, the man approached him and his friends and started accusing them of making threats against him and asked them to stop.
Hernandez and another student, Joseph Rogel, then noticed the suspect was flashing something in his sweater pocket that they believed looked like the butt of a knife.
It is also reported that the suspect was behaving very strange.
“His demeanor was crazy. He had his hood over his head and was looking very psycho, like a psychopath. And he was facing us in such a weird way just inching toward us,” said Rogel
After believing the suspect had a knife, the students decided to walk away. The suspect then began to follow them until they reached the Fine Arts building where they alerted campus security.
The name of the suspect is unconfirmed at this time, also whether or not he is a student at BC.
It is also unconfirmed if a knife was found on the suspect.