Student robbed at knife-point Saturday

By Mark Rivera

A 22-year-old University student was robbed at the MTD bus shelter on the corner of Green and Wright Streets Saturday morning at around 1:36 a.m.

Lt. Tony Brown of the University Police Department said the victim was threatened by a 5 foot, 8 inch man who stated that he was armed with a 3- to 4-inch folding style blade. The attacker was wearing a black ski mask, black gloves, dark baggy pants and a black hooded sweatshirt.

According to Brown, the victim was walking north on Wright Street near Talbot laboratory, when the offender stepped out from behind bushes and demanded that the victim give him his money. The victim complied, and the attacker ran north on Wright Street into the Talbot Lab parking lot, near the tennis courts.

No arrests have been made.

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