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SACRAMENTO, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A California State University-Sacramento student who allegedly killed one of his roommates with a baseball bat has been charged with murder.
Quran Mahammed Jones, who turned 20 Friday, remains in the Medical Center of the University of California-Davis, The Sacramento Bee reported. Jones, who was shot when he allegedly approached police officers carrying a knife, faces assault charges in addition to the charge of killing Scott Hawkins, 23.
Jones reportedly was in good condition Friday. He will be arraigned once he is moved from the hospital to jail.
The criminal complaint says Sacramento State police officers responded to a call at a dorm of someone "acting violent." They could see someone swinging a baseball bat inside the suite Jones shared with four other students.
The officers said they opened the suite with a key they got from a student adviser and found Jones holding a knife with a "crazed look in his eyes." They said he kept coming at them even after several bullets had hit his chest.
In the ambulance, Jones allegedly told a police officer Hawkins shot himself. But investigators say all shots were fired by police.
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