The stabber of three Syracuse University students outside the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house plead guilty on May 27 to first-degree assault as part of a plea deal, said Robert Moran, assistant district attorney for Onondaga County.

Rashaun Cameron, 20, of Syracuse, will receive an eight-year sentence at his June 18 sentencing for pleading guilty to the one assault charge, Moran said.
 
Cameron originally faced one count of first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Sept. 20 stabbing of three ATO brothers, according to police records.

Without the plea deal, Cameron could have been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the five charges.
 
The stabbing took place after Cameron and three other men tried to enter a party at ATO, located on Walnut Avenue, in the early morning of Sept. 20, Sgt. Tom Connellan of the Syracuse police told The Daily Orange in a Sept. 22 article.
 
Nick Condit, an SU student and ATO brother, was on the porch of the fraternity house that night and told the men they had to enter through the side door, Connellan said.
 
The men reacted by attacking Condit, he said. Cameron stabbed Condit four times, in the armpit, lower back and right arm, Connellan said.
 
John Tate and Ryan Saroya, two ATO brothers, came to the porch to help Condit and were also attacked. Tate was stabbed in the right shoulder, and Saroya was stabbed in the waist and left buttocks, Connellan said.
 
Cameron and the three other men fled the scene, but officers from the Department of Public Safety caught up with Cameron down the street and arrested him, DPS Chief Tony Callisto told The Daily Orange in the Sept. 22 article.
 
Callisto said Cameron had tossed a knife behind him while he was running that police later recovered as evidence.
 
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This story was originally reported on May 29, 2010.