PCC police seek help after armed robbery, attempted sexual assault on student
Web Producer: Taylor Higgins
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Pima Community College police ask for assistance locating someone who reportedly robbed and nearly sexually assaulted a female student in the bathroom at the Downtown Campus.
A female student reported to the Pima Community College Police Department that she had been robbed at gunpoint in a bathroom at the Downtown Campus, located at 1255 N. Stone Ave., Friday, according to Stella Bay, Chief of Police for PCC.
The student said that sometime between 4:40 p.m. and 5:40 p.m., she was in the woman's restroom when a man exited a stall and ordered her back into the stall at gun point.
She told campus police that the man demanded that she hand over some personal property and that he attempted to sexually assault her, Bay said.
She described the robber as an African-American man around 20-years-old with short dreadlocks. She said he was approximately 5-feet-10-inches-tall, wearing black jeans, a black and grey, plaid long-sleeve shirt and black shoes.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 9-1-1 or 88-CRIME.
The Pima Community College Police Department encourages all students to:
- Be alert and aware of your surroundings and the people in your vicinity at all times.
- Know where the Emergency blue light phones are located at all times. These phones provide direct access to the PCC Police Department with the push of a button.
- Finally, limit the use of your cellular phone, music or other things that may distract you from what is going on around you.
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