Spring Break
Weekend delivers 3 campus crime alerts
Caroline Briggs
Issue date: 9/11/07 Section: Front Page
Miami University Communications released three new Campus Crime Alerts over the past few days-totaling to five in under a week.
Campus Crime Alert #5 was released Monday after an alleged early Sunday morning aggravated robbery on Brown Road. Miami second-year Carl E. Hayden called the Oxford Police Department at 5:06 a.m., reporting to police that an hour before he had been held at knifepoint for his wallet.
Hayden told police that he was walking home to Hawk's Landing from a party when a male accosted him for money. Hayden said that he was "slightly buzzed" from the night's partying to the point where he thought, "everyone in the world was (his) friend."
As he pulled out his wallet and looked back, the attacker was, according to Hayden, wearing a ski mask and holding a knife in his right hand. Hayden alleges that as he was handing the attacker his wallet, he knocked down the knife, at which point it cut Hayden's stomach. Reportedly, the two were wrestling on the ground where Hayden sustained more cuts from the knife on his back.
After escaping back to his apartment, Hayden said he was reluctant to call police until a roommate advised him to do so. The robber supposedly took his wallet containing two or three dollars in cash.
Hayden described the assailant as a skinny white male wearing jeans and a flannel shirt, about 5'10" in height, with a mustache.
Though the case is the only Campus Crime Alert with a victim sustaining bodily harm, Hayden maintained that it is not the worst he has had to deal with.
"I'm from (Cincinnati), so I'm used to people walking around with weapons, and bums pan-handling for money," Hayden said. "But I was physically shaken up, and I was constantly looking over my shoulder the next day."
Hayden also said that he is involved with Mixed Martial Arts, and these skills aided him in throwing off his assailant Sunday.
But Hayden's case was not the only crime over the weekend. Saturday's Campus Crime Alert #4 alleged direct aggravated burglary of a Miami graduate student occurring at about 3 a.m. that morning. According to the police report, Lawrence D. Hilton was on his way home on South Poplar Street from uptown when two white males followed him into his apartment. One of the assailants punched Hilton in the face and left the apartment. The second attacker then engaged Hilton in a fight when he then repeatedly used racial slurs. After the second attacker left the apartment subsequent to the struggle, Hilton then ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and chased the
Campus Crime Alert #5 was released Monday after an alleged early Sunday morning aggravated robbery on Brown Road. Miami second-year Carl E. Hayden called the Oxford Police Department at 5:06 a.m., reporting to police that an hour before he had been held at knifepoint for his wallet.
Hayden told police that he was walking home to Hawk's Landing from a party when a male accosted him for money. Hayden said that he was "slightly buzzed" from the night's partying to the point where he thought, "everyone in the world was (his) friend."
As he pulled out his wallet and looked back, the attacker was, according to Hayden, wearing a ski mask and holding a knife in his right hand. Hayden alleges that as he was handing the attacker his wallet, he knocked down the knife, at which point it cut Hayden's stomach. Reportedly, the two were wrestling on the ground where Hayden sustained more cuts from the knife on his back.
After escaping back to his apartment, Hayden said he was reluctant to call police until a roommate advised him to do so. The robber supposedly took his wallet containing two or three dollars in cash.
Hayden described the assailant as a skinny white male wearing jeans and a flannel shirt, about 5'10" in height, with a mustache.
Though the case is the only Campus Crime Alert with a victim sustaining bodily harm, Hayden maintained that it is not the worst he has had to deal with.
"I'm from (Cincinnati), so I'm used to people walking around with weapons, and bums pan-handling for money," Hayden said. "But I was physically shaken up, and I was constantly looking over my shoulder the next day."
Hayden also said that he is involved with Mixed Martial Arts, and these skills aided him in throwing off his assailant Sunday.
But Hayden's case was not the only crime over the weekend. Saturday's Campus Crime Alert #4 alleged direct aggravated burglary of a Miami graduate student occurring at about 3 a.m. that morning. According to the police report, Lawrence D. Hilton was on his way home on South Poplar Street from uptown when two white males followed him into his apartment. One of the assailants punched Hilton in the face and left the apartment. The second attacker then engaged Hilton in a fight when he then repeatedly used racial slurs. After the second attacker left the apartment subsequent to the struggle, Hilton then ran to the kitchen, grabbed a knife, and chased the
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