A Boston University student was robbed in South Campus and a second woman was sexually assaulted and robbed near West Campus this weekend, police said.
A man stepped out from behind a U-Haul truck on Park Drive near Audubon Circle around 11:20 p.m. Saturday, and approached a female BU student, attempting to take her purse, BU Police Department Sgt. Larry Cuzzi said. He said the victim opened her purse to show it was empty, but the man found a wallet in an inside pocket, took it and fled.
The victim, who did not see where the man fled, did not need medical attention, Cuzzi said the incident report states.
Cuzzi said the victim described the man as a heavyset black male in his 30s, more than 6-feet tall and wearing black pants and a coat.
Brookline police responded to a rape and robbery on Crowninshield Road about three hours later, at 2:10 a.m. Sunday, according to the BUPD crime log. The attacker fled from the area of 38 Crowninshield Road toward Commonwealth Avenue, according to the log.
Cuzzi said the victim described the suspect as a 5-foot-9 Hispanic male, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt.
In the same area last month, three women reported knifepoint robberies and an attempted robbery to BUPD and the Boston Police Department. Police said the women were attacked between 1:30 a.m. and 1:55 a.m. Victims described the assailant as a Hispanic man around 5-foot-10, wearing dark jeans and a dark coat, police said.
Boston and Brookline police are working with BUPD on the ongoing investigation of the weekend’s reported attacks and are increasing patrols in the area, according to an email Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore and BUPD Chief Thomas Robbins sent to the community yesterday.
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