Police are looking for a suspect at the fatal California State University in Fullerton, stabbing today

Police on Tuesday chased a black-haired attacker who killed a retired administrator at California State University, Fullerton, in the campus parking lot. A 911 call sent officers to the field on Monday morning where they found Steven Shek Keung Chan in his silver Infiniti.

He was bleeding and had been stabbed several times, the police said. Efforts to help him failed and Hacienda Heights man, 57, died on the scene, police said.

A backpack belonging to the attacker was found under the car. It contained a knife-like weapon, items that could be used for kidnapping and incendiary devices, said Fullerton Police Lieutenant Jon Radus.

"It was basically like a bottle containing a flammable liquid and a potential igniter," but that was not triggered, Radus said.

The 911 caller described the attacker as running away like a man in his twenties, black-haired, wearing black pants and a black shirt, Radus said. Agents using dogs searched for the man but did not find him. The police "will work tirelessly to identify the suspect involved," the department said in a tweet.

The attacker specifically targeted Chan, although investigators are still trying to determine the motive, Radus said. From 2009 to 2017, Chan was the director of budget and finance and university student services for higher education, the university said.

He returned to campus as a special consultant in early 2019 "to provide his wise counsel and wisdom," said university president Fram Virjee in a statement.

Virjee declared that he did not personally know Chan, "but in recent hours, by offering a shoulder on which to support his loved ones, it is clear that he was loved for his commitment and his passion for Cal State Fullerton and our Titan family ".

The new CSUF school year began Monday, although no students are on campus, as weekend classes only begin on Saturdays and classes of the week before Monday, announced the university. ;school.

The attack took place as campus police filmed active shooter scenarios in Pollack Library and other locations as part of the emergency preparedness. The shoot was canceled after the attack.

The suburban school of nearly 40,000 students in the heart of its host city, Orange County, has the highest number of students enrolled on the 23 campuses of California State University. He is well known in the world of sports for producing nationally ranked baseball and league leagues, including Justin Turner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Khris Davis of Oakland Athletics.

"It worries me, I walk here all the time," student Leslie Cano told CBS Los Angeles. "I park outside the campus, I do not want it to happen one day when I come home alone at night."

In 1976, a guard with a history of mental illness fired a rifle into the school library, killing seven people and injuring two others. Edward Allaway was convicted of murder, but was subsequently found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a mental hospital.

In 1984, physics professor Edward Cooperman was killed at school by a former student, Minh Van Lam, 21, who had served less than two years in prison. He said that the shooting was an accident.