University Police are looking for a man who tailgated into South Campus Commons Building 6 on Friday morning and exposed himself to a young woman visiting a friend who lives in the building.

The victim, who was walking from her parked car on Preinkert Drive around 10 a.m., did not notice anyone in the reflection of the glass door she entered in Commons 6, University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said. But immediately after she entered the building a man appeared behind her and began asking her name and insisting she give him a hug.

The suspect kept asking her for a hug, Dillon said, so the victim sped up. At one point, he added, the victim said the suspect rubbed up against her while trying to give her a hug.

Just before entering her friend’s apartment, Dillon said, the man asked the victim if she wanted to see something and then “quickly pulled his pants down and pulled out his penis.”

The suspect left the area after the victim entered her friend’s apartment and closed the door behind her.

Before she encountered the suspect in the building, the victim said she noticed a man, who resembled the suspect, getting out of a rusty, brown car, Dillon said. But he added the victim was unsure if the man in the car was the same man who exposed himself to her in the building.

“Police are looking into it,” Dillon said.

The woman is not a student at this university, and Dillon said it unclear how she was able to enter the Commons 6 building.

Students who live in Commons 6 said they weren’t shocked to hear about the incident.

“It didn’t surprise me,” said junior microbiology major Jacob White, who lives in Commons 6. “I see people tailgating all the time late at night. [Residents] just assume that people that are waiting outside know people in the building.”

In response to the incident, the Resident Life Department issued an announcement that was e-mailed to residents and posted on doors throughout the Commons buildings, asking students to be mindful of who they allow to follow them into the buildings.

The e-mail, which was sent by South Campus Commons Community Director Kenyatta Crenshaw, asked students to escort visitors “at all times” and notify University Police of any suspicious activity in or around the complex.

University Police are still investigating the incident. A description of the incident was sent out to the university community in a crime alert Friday described the suspect as wearing baggy sweat pants and a black hooded sweatshirt with a red “M” on the chest.

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