2 students robbed at gunpoint on 40th St.

Two University students were robbed at gunpoint at 40th and Locust streets early yesterday morning, University Police reported yesterday. It was the first gunpoint robbery reported on or near campus in several months. According to University Police Lieutenant Susan Holmes, one male student and one female student were approached by a man wielding a metallic object wrapped in a blue t-shirt, which the students believed was a gun. Holmes said the man took a pearl necklace and a bookbag containing keys and small change. The assailant -- who was described as six feet tall, weighing 160 pounds, and in his mid-20s -- fled south on 40th Street in a car with three other occupants, Holmes said. In a separate and unrelated incident, a man attempted to rob a female University student in a parking lot Monday evening, Holmes said. The woman parked her car at Lot 4, which is located at 300 S. 39th Street, and was asked for directions by a man in a car. The man then attempted to grab her wallet, which she was holding under her arm. Holmes said the woman held on to the wallet and the man fled in the vehicle.

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