BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE
Attacker grabs, fondles student
Buffalo State College will step up campus patrols and increase shuttle service, after a female student was grabbed from behind Tuesday night and sexually fondled by her attacker, college police said.
The student told police she was walking at about 8:10 p. m. Tuesday on Iroquois Drive behind the Moore Complex — campus apartments next to the Scajaquada Expressway — when she was grabbed from behind by a man, said Chief Peter Carey.
“He grabbed her from behind and touched her, before he apparently was scared off by an oncoming car on the roadway,” Carey said. “It was not a rape.”
The man ran away on Iroquois Drive toward Elmwood Avenue.
“She didn’t get a look at the person’s face,” Carey said, “but all indications from the victim [are] she did not know this person at all.”
The freshman student was not injured, but she was taken to the hospital as a precaution, Carey said.
Carey called the attack an “isolated incident” but said it serves as an unfortunate reminder that students and staff need to exercise safety precautions.
In an e-mail sent to the campus community Wednesday, Carey reminded students and staff to walk with a friend while on campus at night, know the location of campus police “blue-light” phones and use campus escorts and shuttle vans, which will have expanded hours.
