NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) - What started out as Halloween fun for a group of friends in Nashville turned into real horror when a woman says she was approached by someone and unknowingly given a real knife which was used to stab her friend. 
 
 Metro Police are investigating the stabbing that happened Friday night at Nashville Nightmare, a popular Halloween attraction in Madison. At this attraction, people dressed up in Halloween costumes roam the grounds, interacting with guests and working carnival-type games. 
 
 According to an incident report from Metro Police, officers were told that a group of four friends had gone to Nashville Nightmare and while inside the venue area, they were approached by someone whom they thought was a character there. Nashville Nightmare says they also believe the person involved was an employee, who has since been placed on leave. 
 
 FOX 17 News spoke with the woman Tawnya Greenfield, who says the group had already gone inside the haunted houses and was playing carnival-type games when it happened inside the roped off area. 
 
 The possible employee, dressed and talking in character, Greenfield if the victim, a friend of Greenfield's, was messing around with her. Playing along with whom she thought to be a character from the attraction she said "yes." The unknown person then handed Greenfield a knife, which she thought was a prop knife. The person, speaking in character according to Greenfield, then said, “well here, stab him.” 
 
 Police said Greenfield, only playing along and believing the knife was a prop, stabbed the victim. Greenfield told us she even joked saying, "ha,ha gotcha!" 
 
 But when Greenfield pulled back, she realized the terrifying truth. 
 
 "His arm was gushing blood like something out of a horror scene," Greenfield said. 
 
 There was blood on the knife, a hole in the victim’s shirt and “blood squirting from the victim’s left arm.” Greenfield told police, and FOX 17 News, she didn’t mean to hurt the victim. Medics responded to the Nashville Nightmare and transported the victim to be treated for his injuries at Skyline Hospital. 
 
 
 
 Greenfield says the unknown person, a man, ran away after the incident. 
 
 Two others were in the group with the woman and victim, who corroborate the story about the prop knife. 
 
 The person who walked up to the group is now believed to be an employee, but Nashville Nightmare is investigating and the group involved in the real horror story is seeking legal action. 
 
 Official statement from Nashville Nightmare: 
 
 The safety and security of our patrons is our top priority, and, for the past 8 years, we have hosted Nashville Nightmare without any security incidents or major injuries. 
 
 We are still confirming the facts, but I can tell you that on Friday night, a male patron was injured by a fellow patron outside the Nashville Nightmare house. Our medical staff responded immediately, and the injured party was transported to the hospital where we understand that he was treated and released. 
 
 We have robust safety and security protocols in place, including metal detectors and onsite medical and security staffs. As we have continued to review the information, we believe that an employee was involved in some way, and he has been placed on leave until we can determine his involvement. We are going over all of our safety protocols with all of our staff again, as the safety and security of all of our patrons is always our main concern. We have not been contacted by the police, but we will cooperate fully with any official investigation. ||||| It was supposed to be a fun outing to a haunted house with friends until a man, believed to be one of the house's actors — a thin man with a skull face — walked up to them and handed one of them a knife. 
 
 The group of friends at the Nashville haunted house last Friday night decided to play along, so when the thin figure with a straw hat asked one of the women if one of her friends was "fucking around with her," she said yes. 
 
 "Well, here, stab him," he said, handing her a knife, according to the police report obtained by BuzzFeed News. 
 
 The 29-year-old woman took the knife, which she thought was fake, and plunged it into her friend's left arm. 
 
 "As she pulled back she realized that there was blood on the knife," the report states. "There was a hole in the victim's shirt and blood was squirting from the victim's left arm." 
 
 Her friend, 29-year-old James Yochim, was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for his injuries. ||||| Suspect charged in Lone Star College stabbing 
 
 UPDATE: The suspect, Dylan Quick, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. 
 
 ORIGINAL STORY: 
 
 No one knew what in the world was going on, least of all Ryan Ballard as he headed up the staircase of the Health Science building at the Cy-Fair branch of Lone Star College. 
 
 Late for his Tuesday morning biology class, Ballard didn't even notice the increasing commotion around him, the heightened chatter and raised voices. If anybody nearby even knew about the stabbings that had just taken place, which ultimately would total 14, they had not had time to spread the word. 
 
 But Ballard did notice the blood. 
 
 First a few drops - perhaps from a nosebleed? Then more blood a few steps higher. And then more, like a small puddle. 
 
 Ballard saw three women running down the stairs crying and screaming. And then more blood, as one of the students held her neck, a flowing red stain moving over her hand and down her chest. 
 
 "I was in shock," he said. "I had never seen something that bad." 
 
 Seconds later, he heard someone in the lobby of the building yell, "Stop that guy!" Though Ballard could not have known it at that moment, "that guy" had attacked not just the bleeding woman but more than a dozen students, inexplicably stabbing each with a small knife as he walked by before quickly moving on, almost unnoticed, to another. 
 
 For the second time in three months, a Lone Star campus was the scene of a sudden violent assault. No guns this time. The attacker walked down the hallways of a well-populated building, stabbing people at random. 
 
 Now he was running out the door. 
 
 "My first thought was I need to go catch him,'" Ballard said. "I don't know why I thought that." 
 
 Suspect tackled 
 
 Another group of students was running toward the man. One finally reached him near the parking lot, grabbing the assailant in a bear hug. Ballard, a former offensive lineman at Langham Creek High School, also closed in. That's when he noticed the attacker squirming to get his hand into his back pocket. 
 
 Instinctively, Ballard knocked both of them to the ground. 
 
 "I didn't want to wait until it was too late to make a move," he said, not realizing until later that there was more potential danger involved than he could have known. "I'm not going to lie. Now that I know what the man did, I realize he could have pulled a knife on me and I could have been just another statistic." 
 
 Late Tuesday, prosecutors charged 20-year-old Dylan Andrew Quick with three counts of aggravated assault. 
 
 'Did you do it?" 
 
 A former Lone Star student who also had been detained Tuesday morning by campus police was in the holding area when Quick was initially detained. Demond Lago, who had been accused of trespassing on school property, said Quick confirmed to him that he had attacked his unsuspecting fellow students, each of whom suffered knife wounds to the throat and head. 
 
 "We were sitting on the floor while a cop sat in a chair," said Demond Lago. "I asked him, did you do it? And he said yes. Then the cop told us to stop talking to each other." 
 
 When the officer looked away, Lago said, he asked Quick what he was trying to do. 
 
 "He said he was trying to go on a killing spree but the (expletive) blade broke," said Lago, who described Quick's demeanor as "troubled." 
 
 Authorities declined to specify the precise type of weapon used in the assaults, referring only to a "razor-type" knife. Witnesses described it as small, perhaps a pencil-like hobby knife or a box cutter. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that a piece of blade broke off when one of the victims was wounded and that the handle was recovered in Quick's backpack. 
 
 Those who know Quick were as stunned by the news as those who witnessed what he allegedly did as he moved between two campus buildings, his gloved hands stuffed into his pockets until he decided to strike. Neighbors described him as a once-shy kid who remained a bit of a loner. They said he spent most of his time at home and rarely, if ever, had friends over. 
 
 Screams from hall 
 
 Born deaf, Quick received a cochlear implant as a child. He was a student in the Cy-Fair ISD until 2004 and was later home-schooled. Neighbors said he was polite and helpful, and that they saw little evidence of a troubled personality. However, Quick told investigators he has had fantasies of stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school. He also said he planned Tuesday's attacks for some time, according to the news release. 
 
 The entire incident was over within minutes. It had happened so quickly that most students were not even sure what was happening. Cassie Foe was in her physical anatomy class when she heard screams from the hallway. She thought it was just kids being loud. 
 
 "I went out to ask them to please be quiet and a girl was bleeding out through her neck, running down the stairs," said Foe, a 21-year-old nursing major. "I saw another girl sitting at the top of the stairs, and they had paper towels on her neck because she had gotten stabbed in the throat." 
 
 None of what Foe saw made sense until she witnessed an attack firsthand. 
 
 "I turned around the hallway to see if there was anyone else, and as I was looking around the corner, I saw a guy who was standing next to another male, and it looked like he bumped into him. Then he just collapsed to the floor. He definitely aimed for the throat - in the middle of the throat. It looked like the goal was exactly in the middle." 
 
 Jan. 22 attack 
 
 Capt. Robert Rasa of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department said 12 people were taken to area hospitals while others were treated at the scene. He said most of the injuries were stab wounds to the face and neck area. 
 
 Six were taken to the Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute, which is part of Memorial Hermann Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Alejandra Rodriguez. Four of those patients were transported by Life Flight medical helicopter. 
 
 The other hospitalized victims had minor injuries and were treated at North Cypress Medical Center, Rasa said. 
 
 The scene was frighteningly similar to a Jan. 22 incident in which random contact between two students erupted into gunfire that left four people hurt. Both men were charged, one with aggravated assault, which began when one accidentally bumped the other. An argument quickly escalated. 
 
 Assisting victims 
 
 In Tuesday's assault, nursing student Jessica Moffett had gone to the bathroom during one of her classes when another student ran in, frantic, and said she needed help: Two people had just been stabbed in the neck. 
 
 Once outside, Moffett saw a man and a woman bleeding. The man seemed worse off, so she and another student applied pressure to the man's neck and told him to stay calm. Someone had given him their T-shirt so that they could apply pressure to control the bleeding. A teacher brought gauze and Moffett continued to help apply pressure to the wounds until paramedics arrived. They said he had lost a lot of blood. 
 
 "I just am praying for everyone involved and am hoping there will be no fatalities," she said. "At this point, I'm shocked anyone would do this to innocent students." 
 
 The first 911 call came in at 11:12 a.m. Dozens of patrol cars descended on the campus, along with ambulances and Life Flight helicopters. The campus was placed on lockdown briefly, then the campus was cleared. Remaining classes were canceled.
– Halloween is James Yochim's favorite time of year: "I get really excited about going to haunted houses." His Friday night at Nashville Nightmare in Madison—a sprawling attraction with four haunted houses, an escape room, and scary cast members running around with fake weapons—might dull the thrill, however. Yochim says a thin man with skull makeup, assumed to be an actor, approached his friend, Tawnya Greenfield, asking if Yochim was "f—ing around with her," per BuzzFeed. When she jokingly said yes, the man handed her a knife and said "stab him," Yochim tells the Nashville Tennessean. "Keep in mind, we'd been chased by chainsaws, holding other weapons, all kinds of stuff all night, and it was all fake," he adds. "So she stabs at me with it, and everything got really black." The blade—very much real—went through the 29-year-old's forearm. Though it didn't hit any major arteries, bones, or tendons, "his arm was gushing blood like something out of a horror scene," Greenfield tells Fox 17. Nine stitches later, Yochim recalls the unknown man apologizing as he lay bleeding, saying, "I didn't know my knife was that sharp." But according to Yochim, there were no weapons allowed inside the attraction and visitors were required to go through "very thorough" metal detectors. In a Tuesday statement, Nashville Nightmare's organizers said an employee believed to be "involved in some way" had been placed on leave "until we can determine his involvement." An initial police report said the suspect had not been identified. No charges have been laid.