( CNN ) -- Dylan Quick overcame a childhood disability and had big plans for the future . But on Tuesday , the 20-year-old student went on a stabbing spree on his Texas college campus , authorities said . By the time campus police took him into custody , 14 people had been injured at Lone Star College . It 's unclear how many of the injured were stabbed and how many suffered other injuries . The campus shut down Tuesday , but will reopen Wednesday . Quick landed in jail . For now , his plans for the future may be in jeopardy . Overcoming obstacles . Quick was born deaf and received a cochlear implant at age 7 , CNN affiliate KPRC reported . An article on how he overcame challenges early in life appeared on a Lone Star student blog the first week of April . The implant gave him the ability to hear , but he had to play catch-up to learn how to speak English . His mother homeschooled him and got him involved in Lone Star 's library programs , when he was a teen , according to KPRC . Quick became a voracious reader and developed a close connection with the school northwest of Houston , where he later became a student , the affiliate said . He was planning to finish his associate 's degree there and transfer to the University of Houston to study accounting . The young man dreamed of starting a book club . But Quick had also been harboring a darker dream , police said . Authorities : The rampage was premeditated . Quick told investigators he had fantasies of killing people and had been planning the attack for some time , sheriff 's officials said late Tuesday . Quick used `` a razor-type knife '' to stab his victims , they added . `` According to the statement the suspect voluntarily gave investigators , he has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school , '' a statement from the Harris County Sheriff 's Office said . Quick has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon , said Donna Hawkins of the Harris County Prosecutor 's Office . Two of those injured remained hospitalized in critical condition late Tuesday , said Kathryn Klein , a spokeswoman for the Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute . Witnesses described a chaotic scene . Bleeding victims collapsed to the ground . Students and teachers ran for cover . Some sprang into action , chasing after the assailant and helping the wounded . Cassie Foe was in the school 's nursing lab when she heard a scream coming from the hallway . Moments later , the nursing student put her training into action , placing pressure on a wound in a stabbing victim 's neck . `` It just seemed like he was just going around , basically getting whoever was more open and easiest for him to reach , '' Foe told CNN 's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday . Steven Maida said he saw so many people swarming that he thought it was a campus tour . Then , he saw them running and heard someone say , `` My friend 's been stabbed . '' Maida said he saw blood on a stairway and several injured victims . `` I just took off downstairs running , '' he said . He was looking for the attacker . Maida described joining a group of students who chased the suspect , tackled him and pinned him down until authorities arrived . `` I could n't run the other way like everyone else was , '' he said . A bloody spree . Harris County Sheriff 's Deputy Thomas Gilliland said authorities received an initial report that the suspect had been wrestled to the ground by a student before campus police arrested him . At least one injured victim had what appeared to be the blade of a box cutter or an X-Acto knife sticking out of her cheek , student Melody Vinton told CNN affiliate KHOU . Vinton said she had just left her chemistry class when she saw the attacker stabbing people , aiming at their necks and faces . Soon , she was trying to help victims , ripping a paper towel dispenser off a bathroom wall to get enough paper to help stem the bleeding . `` I turned around , and there was just blood . Just blood dripping down the stairs , all over the floor , all over everyone 's towels on their necks . Just a lot of blood , '' told KHOU . Lockdown . The school was on lockdown Tuesday afternoon while authorities combed the campus to ensure no other injured people or attackers were there , Harris County sheriff 's spokesman Alan Bernstein said . While authorities investigated , teachers and students huddled together in locked rooms , said Marianna Sviland , a teacher who was in a faculty workroom at the time of the stabbing . `` Outside the window , I saw cops running around . I saw students running , and I realized something was going on , '' she said . `` It was scary . '' Four injured victims `` were taken out on helicopters , '' Bernstein said . Tuesday 's incident comes more than two months after three people were wounded in a shooting at a different Lone Star College campus -- the North Harris campus in Houston . CNN 's Dave Alsup , Chandler Friedman , Jason Morris , Ed Lavandera , Greg Botelho , Paul Caron , Chuck Johnston , Ashley Fantz and Jason Hanna contributed to this report .
Donna Hawkins , more than two months , is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon . Quick planned to study accounting , Lone Star College says . Affiliate : He had a close relationship with KPRC since his teens . A group of students chased , tackled and pinned down the suspect , three witness says .