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FORT WORTH — Police have stepped up patrols following a report that a man tried to grab a woman student late Thursday as she was walking near Jarvis Hall at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
The TCU student told an officer she pushed her attacker away after he tried to grab her from behind about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. She described the suspect as 6-feet-tall, in his late 20s with shaggy blond hair. The suspect was last seen going north toward Canty Street.TCU administrators sent out an e-mail alerting students and faculty, advising them to take precautions and not to walk alone at night. Campus police have increased patrols on bicycles, cars and on foot, said Tracy Syler-Jones, TCU spokeswoman.Fort Worth investigators are trying to determine if this incident is related to other recent assaults on TCU students, said Sgt. Pedro Criado, police spokesman. Another TCU student told police she was sexually assaulted on Oct. 13 by a man who grabbed her from behind while she was walking in the 2900 block of University Drive. The student told investigators the attacker is a white man in his early 20s, with medium-length, straight blond hair and moles on the right side of his face. Police are also investigating an Oct. 1 report from a student who said she might have been slipped a date-rape drug in an alcoholic beverage and sexually assaulted on Sept. 17.MITCH MITCHELL, 817-390-7752
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