A student at Adventist-owned Andrews University threatened and assaulted Seminary professor Russell Burrill in his office at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on campus. There was no weapon involved. The 28-year-old student Romana Baciu from Romania also assaulted a police officer and medic personnel. The student is in police custody, and has been dismissed from the university.

Rusell Burrill received medical attention, was released, and returned to the classroom in the afternoon of the same day.

Baciu was handcuffed and taken into an ambulance where he reportedly told a police officer he wanted to kill Burrill. When medics tried to treat him, Baciu reportedly attacked Berrien Springs officer Milton Agay saying he wanted to kill him. Baciu was subdued and then cuffed to the stretcher. Charges are being reviewed by the prosecutor's office.

This incident came at around the same time that shooting tragedy was happening at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.