Mitchell Adkins 
 
 Mitchell W. Adkins, 19, of Cincinnati has been charged with first-degree and fourth-degree assault, and three counts of wanton endangerment, according to police. “She’s in stable condition at a local hospital,” said Michele Sparks, a spokeswoman for the liberal-arts college in Lexington, Ky. Another student, also a woman, had minor injuries, she said. The attacker walked into a coffee shop inside the Glenn Building on Friday morning, asked people their political affiliation, then went on the attack, one witness said. Middleton said Adkins made several threatening statements and then attacked a female student with a machete. “They were very on it.” 
 
 The student was taken to the hospital and treated for injuries that are not life-threatening, Middleton said. A Transylvania University student, Tristan Reynolds, told the Lexington Herald-Leader he was inside the campus cafe with 30 or 40 other people when “a guy came in, banged something, a hatchet or an ax, on the table and said, ‘The day of reckoning has come.’ 
 
 “He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said ‘Republican’ and the guy said, ‘You are safe.’ 
 
 “And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out.” 
 
 Reynolds declined to comment further to The Washington Post on Friday but referred to the quotes in the Lexington Herald-Leader story. Classes had just begun for its May term, Sparks said. Police had been called to the Glenn Building on campus about 8:45 a.m. for a report of an armed attacker. The university canceled classes for the rest of the day but remains open and has provided counselors for students and others seeking help.
– Witnesses say a man armed with a machete attacked students at a university in Kentucky after asking their political affiliation. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the suspect—identified by police as 19-year-old Mitchell Adkins—entered a coffee shop on the Transylvania University campus Friday morning with a bag full of knives and a machete. Tristan Reynolds says he was in the cafe with 30 to 40 other students when the suspect announced, "The day of reckoning has come." Reynolds says the suspect asked a man in the cafe his political affiliation, telling him, "You are safe" when he identified himself as a Republican. Police say Adkins attacked two women, at least one of them with a machete, the Washington Post reports. One of the women was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries; the other was treated at the scene. Campus security quickly detained Adkins, who was hospitalized for "self-inflicted injuries." Adkins has been charged with assault and wanton endangerment. He's a former Transylvania University student, having left the school in 2015. According to WKYT, the same year he left the university he wrote a piece on BuzzFeed complaining that conservatives are discriminated against at liberal arts colleges.