Sentencing Hearing Begins for University of Waterloo Stabbing Attacker

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman faces charges deemed as terrorist activity after targeting a gender studies class.

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman pleaded guilty to four charges related to the stabbing of a professor and two students.
The attack took place in a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo.
Villalba-Aleman claimed he attacked because he believed universities were imposing ideologies.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada considers the offences as constituting terrorist activity.
Initially facing 11 charges, Villalba-Aleman was 24 years old at the time of the attack.