A Georgetown University student was robbed at gunpoint at 3 a.m. last Friday morning at the intersection of 37th and T streets, N.W.
According to William Tucker, director of the Department of Public Safety, the girl reported the incident to DPS that afternoon but did not want to be identified.
The alleged victim identified the suspect as a black male about 5 feet 6 inches tall. He was wearing a “white hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black tennis shoes and a dark turtleneck which was pulled up over his lower face,” according to an e-mail sent out by the Department of Public Safety.
The subject “brandished a gray-colored handgun, which is believed to be an automatic,” and asked the alleged victim for her wallet as she dropped her backpack, according to the e-mail.
The subject began to flee, but stopped when the student said she needed her binder to study for a test the next day. The subject then removed all contents but her wallet, which contained only a small amount of change, and fled south on 37th Street.
Tucker said the alleged victim declined to make a report to the Metropolitan Police Department and no suspects have been identified.
According to Tucker, he has asked MPD to patrol more heavily in the Burleith area because there have been several robberies there this semester. DPS itself does not have authority to patrol off-campus neighborhoods such as Burleith.
Lt. Brian Bray of MPD District 2E, who is in charge of the Burleith area said that although DPS does not have jurisdiction in Burleith, DPS officers could patrol the area in order to dissuage possible crimes.
Bray said that the only way to completely eliminate such robberies is for students, especially females, to stop traveling through the Burleith area at night.
The DPS e-mail advised students to take advantage of the DPS escort service after dark.
