THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, July 23, 1994                TAG: 9407230230
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Medium:   55 lines

SUSPECT IN STABBING RECEIVES COUNSELING AS CONDITION FOR BAIL THE FORMER ODU STUDENT ALSO WAS TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM THE VICTIM.

The former Old Dominion University student who allegedly stabbed his math instructor is a patient at the Norfolk Psychiatric Center under conditions set by a judge who freed him on a $75,000 bond.

Shaheen Malkamy, 21, was arrested July 7 after ODU police were called by stunned classmates who said a student sprang from his front-row seat and stabbed Carl Panetta in the shoulder for no apparent reason.

``The teacher had just explained a math problem and asked if there were any questions, and the guy just stood up and stabbed him,'' student Kevin McCaskill said.

``Then he pulled the knife back and dropped it to the floor. The whole time he never said a word.''

Panetta was taken to a hospital where he was given 12 stitches to close his wound.

At Malkamy's bail hearing July 11 in General District Court, Judge Terry D. Huffman ordered Malkamy to surrender his passport and stay away from the ODU campus and Panetta and his family, as conditions for his release.

Huffman also said that Malkamy had to undergo psychiatric counseling.

Malkamy stayed in jail until Wednesday, when his family plunked down a $75,000 cashier's check for his bail.

Sheriff's Department officials told reporters Wednesday that Immigration and Naturalization Service agents had taken Malkamy into custody that evening, and they believed he was being held in a federally approved detention facility.

Immigration officials said Friday that they interviewed Malkamy but released him after determining he was a U.S. citizen.

``He told me at first that he was an Iranian citizen, but then later said he was also a citizen of the United States,'' INS special agent Tom Sochor said. ``His parents are Iranian but he was born here in Ohio, which makes him a citizen of this country. He's convinced he's a citizen of both countries, but we don't recognize dual citizenship.''

Sochor said that after the interview he took away Malkamy's passport and released him to a cousin and a lawyer.

Malkamy was taken to Norfolk Psychiatric Institute on Wednesday night and remains in the facility. His attorney, Eric Schwartz, would not comment on Malkamy's stay at the center. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

Shaheen Malkamy, 21, who has been accused of stabbing his math

instructor, was freed on a $75,000 bond.

KEYWORDS: ASSUALT BAIL by CNB