A UT nursing sophomore remains in stable condition at an intensive care unit following an early morning stabbing Sunday at a popular student apartment complex off Riverside Drive.
Lindsey Tauch is one of five stabbing victims, according to Tauch's family members. She and fellow apartment resident James French are still in the Intensive Care Unit of the Brackenridge Hospital, but both have been declared stable, according to family members present in the waiting room.
The three other victims were not in critical care and have not yet been identified. The Austin Police Department could not be reached for comment at press time. According to witnesses, two of the suspects had been arrested.
The stabbing occurred at Building 7 of Jefferson Commons Town Lake on Pleasant Valley during Tauch's party.
It was about 2:30 a.m., and seemed like just another party, said undeclared/prepharmacy sophomore Amanda Dodson, who is one of Tauch's neighbors.
Earlier in the evening, witnesses said four men had asked where they could find a "cool party." Stephen Hester, another resident of Building 7, was standing outside with his roommate at the time. Hester said he later saw the same men running from the scene, while about 20 police cars piled around the apartment.
"I couldn't believe how much blood there was," said Hester, a UT economics sophomore, about the crime scene the morning after. "I could not possibly have expected that."
Tauch's next-door neighbor, Andrew Houshian, said that everything was fine until the four men crashed the party.
"There were these four Hispanic guys, smoking inside the apartment, and someone said they had knives," Houshian said. "So Lindsey asked them to leave."
Houshian said he saw that Tauch had been stabbed in the abdomen outside of her apartment. French went to help her and was also stabbed, said Houshian, a business sophomore. As three others tried to help them, they were stabbed in turn, he said.
As a lone power-washer cleaned out the remaining blood from the hallway walls Sunday afternoon, some inhabitants of the first floor of Building 7 were still scared about Sunday's events.
"I'm trying to move out of here as soon as I can," said Dodson, who mentioned that someone had been stabbed behind the Ballpark Apartments just down the street.
Advertising and business junior Dev Gupta, Houshian's roomate, added that he would move to North Campus as soon as his lease expired.
"I just don't feel comfortable around here anymore," Gupta said.
Additional reporting by Maryam Tabatabai
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