Broken windows at U-Court hint at theft

Staff Report

Police were called to University Court Thursday evening after receiving a call of rocks being thrown around the outside of the Giffin building.

Adam Due, chief public safety officer of Eastern’s University Police Department, said there is criminal damage from rocks being thrown.

“I don’t know if it was random from rocks being thrown, if they were fighting out here, or if it was targeted at a specific place,” Due said.

Due said a robbery was reported as part of the encounter, and that a weapon was implied but not seen.

Due also said the police are not calling it an armed robbery, but they are also not saying it is just a robbery.

Mariya Muhr, a sophomore family and consumer sciences major, said she came back from her class in the Physical Science building and saw the police cars outside of her building.

“That was my old apartment that was getting searched,” Muhr said. “That was a relief that I had moved out and scary at the same time.”

Due said there is no suspect description to put out at the time that does not describe anything more than race and age; he said the police department will try and get a description out when they can.

Due also said that no arrests were made after the police were called.