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Bryce Evans
Issue date: 4/3/07 Section: News
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Campus Safety has reported two separate instances of aggravated robbery victimizing DU students in the past week.
According to a report sent out by DU Campus Safety, the first robbery was attempted at 2 a.m. last Thursday morning on the corner of High Street and Asbury Avenue.
The suspect, according to the report, approached a male DU student and stated that he had a gun and asked for the student's wallet.
The student stated in the report that he could not see the suspect's weapon.
The suspect is a white male around six feet tall. He fled southbound on High Street.
This crime has a strong correlation to the second of the two robberies, which occurred Saturday at 10 p.m. at Wells Fargo Bank on the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Buchtel Boulevard.
When a female DU student finished extracting money from the bank's ATM, she was confronted by a man holding a hand gun.
"[The suspect] walked up to her after she got in line," said Tyrone Mills, the associate director of community affairs and public information for DU Campus Safety. "He said, 'I'll take that,' displayed a hand gun, and she gave it to him."
The similarities between the two crimes become more apparent when dealing with the two suspects.
The suspect in the Wells Fargo robbery nearly fits the identical description of the High St. and Asbury Avenue robbery.
The robber in the Wells Fargo incident was also a white male thought to be around 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to Mills.
Early worries around the DU campus were that these incidents were similar to robberies that took place in Lower Downtown over a week ago, in which students from an out of town university were robbed and shot.
According to Mills, there really are no strong similarities between the downtown and DU area cases.
"There is really not any similarities in the two cases. They were not the same," said Mills. "The only similarity that can be is that a robbery occurred of student age individuals.
According to a report sent out by DU Campus Safety, the first robbery was attempted at 2 a.m. last Thursday morning on the corner of High Street and Asbury Avenue.
The suspect, according to the report, approached a male DU student and stated that he had a gun and asked for the student's wallet.
The student stated in the report that he could not see the suspect's weapon.
The suspect is a white male around six feet tall. He fled southbound on High Street.
This crime has a strong correlation to the second of the two robberies, which occurred Saturday at 10 p.m. at Wells Fargo Bank on the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Buchtel Boulevard.
When a female DU student finished extracting money from the bank's ATM, she was confronted by a man holding a hand gun.
"[The suspect] walked up to her after she got in line," said Tyrone Mills, the associate director of community affairs and public information for DU Campus Safety. "He said, 'I'll take that,' displayed a hand gun, and she gave it to him."
The similarities between the two crimes become more apparent when dealing with the two suspects.
The suspect in the Wells Fargo robbery nearly fits the identical description of the High St. and Asbury Avenue robbery.
The robber in the Wells Fargo incident was also a white male thought to be around 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to Mills.
Early worries around the DU campus were that these incidents were similar to robberies that took place in Lower Downtown over a week ago, in which students from an out of town university were robbed and shot.
According to Mills, there really are no strong similarities between the downtown and DU area cases.
"There is really not any similarities in the two cases. They were not the same," said Mills. "The only similarity that can be is that a robbery occurred of student age individuals.
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