State Center Community College District Police are warning Fresno City College students and faculty to to be “more aware of their surroundings.”
The police department posted flyers around the FCC campus to notify people that a crime had occurred on campus and alert the community to be more aware.
The increased vigilance comes after a female student “in her 30s” was assaulted by two male suspects, according to SCCCD Police Chief Bruce Hartman.
The female student reported that she was attacked by two black males on the evening of Nov. 13, 2013 in the North Parking lot S, near the Health Science building.
Hartman said the “female student was leaving her class in the Health Science Building when the two suspects made a ‘couple of comments’ and then hit her. Two male students, who have not yet come forward, intervened on behalf of the victim.
Hartman urges the two male students who were involved to talk to police about the incident.
“The suspects haven’t been apprehended,” Hartman said. “This is one of those things that we want to make everybody aware of.”
Hartman said his office is disclosing this incident because of the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act… which requires colleges and universities across the United States to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses.”
The victim was able to identify a tattoo of a bird on the wrist of one of the suspects.
Hartman said he didn’t know whether the suspects were students or not.
The police chief said that the police have increased patrolling on campus, and also warns students and faculty to “be careful on campus” and to “avoid walking alone whenever possible.”