RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY
PDT Staff Writer
Shawnee State University sent a warning to students and staff Thursday night after a student was reportedly assaulted and robbed at a university parking lot.
According to Elizabeth Blevins, director of communications at Shawnee State University, an emergency signal was activated in parking lot B-3, on the corner of Third and Gay streets in Portsmouth, at 9:13 p.m. Thursday. The university’s Department of Public Safety responded and found an unidentified male student who told them he had been assaulted and robbed by three men in the parking lot.
“He was able to give a description of two of them. He said one was tall, between 6-4 and 6-5, and that the other one was stocky, about 5-8,” Blevins said, adding to the description that all three were black male suspects.
No weapons were reported, she said, and the attackers robbed the student of cash. An ambulance was called and the victim was transported to Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, where he was treated and released. Neither the nature of his injuries nor his current condition was known on Friday.
Upon taking the report, the university sent out a notification to all students and staff alerting them of the incident.
“There are certain crimes that we’re required to report under the Clery Act, and this is one of them. Assault is one. They require a warning to go out to other students. Just a safety alert to let them know that something has happened on or near campus,” Blevins said.
She said the matter remains under investigation by the University Department of Public Safety, with coordination by Portsmouth Police Department. Anyone with information is asked to contact the university Public Safety at 740-351-3243.
Ryan Scott Ottney can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 235, or rottney@heartlandpublications.com.
Once again your comments are just as nuts as what you are trying to get across. You are all over the place. I understand what you are trying to say but you need to find a clearer way to represent your argument. It is confusing and I can't tell what side you are on. Are you for or against Shawnee? Are you for or against the PPD? You need to ask less questions and try making a point sometime. You may find more people respond when they understand what in the world you are trying to say.
You run you mind and think everyone thinks like you do, or should.
You did cipher one thing they are questions. Good for you, you could be a CAVER? Biased Warped but stumble on to something once in a while.
We don't have to come on here and be for or against, we can come on here searching for the truth and what we should be reading here. You left out being for or against the PDT's. Do you work for them? Wonder? There's many in Ptown who probably could be drawn in cause There's Thoroughman, The city council who provide the mutual agency agreement or whatever it's called, and the City Solicitor who approved it, etc.
If you want for and against have at it. You did get the essence of the posting, Questions, Good for you, X. Are you related to A? Not Aeh.
We are not after you to respond, it's not about you, get over yourself. Are you Forrey missing his Freshman Composition Students, or just another wanna be being critical where it does not apply. They do that a lot on Topix, and Moes Forum?
By the way, you will not accomplish anything on here, just raise questions, plant seeds, with the players, not you, but they ain't looking at what we peons say anyway, we don't know any better.
You are a player, that's why you come on here with you corrective coercive volatile demeanor.
Now go do the right things.
Will the MEGO's allow holding X accountable? Wonder? The poster will be the only one who knows.
That is an adjacent lot to the Drug Store and a church and the Innermission. Are all those folks in danger? And teh city parking lots diagonally across the way where the Loft's renters park?
Was this the same guys in that other article who got away with nothing in the alley in downtown Ptown?
What is the the jurisdictional jurisdiction? Does the PPD take a ah, whatever, when something happens way out there in their downtown area since the SSU is going against their original 2007 20 year master plan and going out into the city with their facilities north of 4th. St. and further?
The PPD, just lays back and lets a University PD do the work for their citizens? Interesting?
Are there camera's on those (Off Campus) lots, bet not, this SSU is a babe in Swaddling clothes and life and limb of the PPD citizens are at stake.
The Clery Act, is that cause it's next to the Church and clergy? :)
Come on Ryan, are the two incidents connected?
Wow..................any one connecting the dots for crime? They call this a "hot spot," is anybody attending to that, the PPD, or the SSU?
Will we have to bring in the State Police and the state and the Fed's like we had to for the Pill Mills and the other druggie problems?
More and more, the PDT"s is as incontinent (sic) as the city and county are in these matters.
Wow................