Particle.news
Download on the App Store

St. Olaf Dorm Attack: William Schulenberg Gets 7½ Years for Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend

The sentence follows a campus party attack that defied a no-contact order.

Overview

  • Rice County Judge ordered William Davis Schulenberg, 23, to serve 91 months in prison on Monday for a May 2022 assault at a St. Olaf College dorm in Northfield, Minnesota.
  • He was convicted of one count of first-degree assault and three counts of second-degree assault, after pleading guilty to those charges in August.
  • Charging documents say he climbed through a dorm window and attacked his ex-girlfriend with a knife and hammer, striking her head and stabbing her multiple times.
  • Three students who intervened were also injured, with two hit by the hammer and a third cut by the knife, according to the case files.
  • Prosecutors say the college had issued a no-contact order and the party host had warned him not to come, and investigators reported he admitted he went there to hurt her.