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Student robbed at gunpoint on Oakland Ave.

BY SARA LYNNE THELEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Published September 9, 2008

University Police issued a campus crime alert Tuesday after a University student was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning at his home south of Central Campus.

According to the alert, the student was sitting on his porch on Oakland Avenue near East University Avenue and Arch Street when a stranger approached him, brandished a handgun and asked for his wallet.

The man left the scene on foot at around 3 a.m. after the student gave him money. The student was not injured.

The suspect is described as a 6-foot-3, 195-pound white male about 30 years old. He was last seen wearing a grey T-shirt,jeans and a black baseball hat.

Sergeant Matt Lige of the Ann Arbor Police department declined to comment on the incident, saying it is still under investigation.

Some residents of the student-dominated neighborhood said they weren’t surprised to hear about the crime.

“This is a big party street,” said LSA junior Greg Sturgeon, who lives on Oakland Avenue. “People know that people are being drunk and stupid, (and) irresponsible.”

Sturgeon said the house he lives in has been robbed twice in the past year.

LSA junior Mike Kelmenson, another Oakland Avenue resident, said the lack of street lighting on the block concerned him.

“It’s really dark -- like there’s no lighting," he said. "You can’t even see people in front of you.”

Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call University Police at 763-1131 or the Ann Arbor Police Department tip line at 996-3199.