ATLANTA (AP) – A freshman at Fort Valley State University was stabbed to death after he came to the aid of some female students who were being harassed and groped by a man outside the school cafeteria, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent said Wednesday.
Donnell M. Phelps tried to intervene to help the three women Tuesday and ended up getting into a struggle with the suspect, former student Joseph Anthony Scott, GBI Special Agent J.T. Ricketson said.
Scott pulled a pocketknife and began stabbing Phelps repeatedly, Ricketson said at a news conference at the historically black university, about 29 miles southwest of Macon.
Authorities on Wednesday were seeking a murder warrant against Scott, 24, who was being held in the Peach County Jail following the attack.
When Phelps realized he was severely wounded, he ran toward the campus infirmary and collapsed on the ground outside shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, Ricketson said.