Crime & Safety

Cops: Rutgers Student Stabbed Another Student After Taking LSD Together

Officers quickly located Kevin Huang on the second floor of a Sicard Street home, naked and pacing back and forth, police said.

A Rutgers students was arrested Saturday and accused of stabbing another student in the neck after they took LSD together, police said.

At approximately 1:20 a.m., patrol officers found Andrew Kim, 23, of New Brunswick outside a Sicard Street home bleeding profusely from the neck.

Kim and another witness identified Kevin Huang, 22, of New Brunswick as the suspect who stabbed Kim inside the Sicard Street residence. Officers quickly located Kevin Huang on the second floor of the Sicard Street home, naked and pacing back and forth, police said.

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Huang was taken into custody while Kim was transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where he was treated for his injuries, police said.

The witness who was with Kim and Huang stated that both individuals had taken LSD earlier in the evening, and at some point, Huang began to act very strange, becoming aggressive, removing his clothing, and he began to destroy the apartment, police said.

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The witness left the apartment to find help, and when returning, found Kim fleeing the apartment, bleeding from the neck, police said.

As officers secured Huang’s apartment and took him into custody, they observed large quantities of drugs and paraphernalia about the apartment. A subsequent search warrant uncovered approximately 15 pounds of marijuana, approximately 500 bars of Xanax, a significant amount of cocaine, other unidentified pills and crystals, packaging materials consistent with drug distribution, and a significant amount of cash, police said.

Huang is charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of a weapon, and a series of narcotic related offenses including possession, distribution, and distribution in a school zone, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Drew Weiss at (732) 745-5217.

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