A man attacked a female student in Lot 1 Wednesday night in a possible kidnapping attempt, police said.
According to a crime alert sent by University Police Thursday, a man drove up alongside the student as she walked past the construction site of the future journalism building in Lot 1B near Tawes Theater at 9:30 p.m. The driver, approximately 40 to 50 years old, opened the passenger-side door of his car and asked the student to get in.
When she kept walking, the man parked his car on Campus Drive, grabbed the student and again told her to get into his car. The student ran away and the suspect then drove off in his car, which the crime alert tentatively identified as a dark-colored recent-model Toyota Corolla.
Although University Police distributed an e-mail crime alert, they did not send out a text-message alert for the attack. University Police spokesman Paul Dillon could not be reached for comment Thursday evening.
