U. employee robbed at knifepoint on 41st Street

A University employee was robbed at knifepoint Wednesday night on Beige Block, University Police Sergeant Lawrence Salotti said yesterday. The woman and her friend were walking on 41st Street between Locust and Walnut Streets just after 12:30 a.m. when a man approached them carrying a knife, and proceeded to grab the woman's shoulder bag, police said. The woman and the attacker struggled, and the attacker struck the woman in the head with the handle of the knife and fled with the bag. University Police said the car was occupied by another man and woman. The attacker was described as about 30 years old, six-feet, two-inches tall, weighing 140 to 145 pounds and last seen wearing dark pants and an orange or red jacket with stripes on the sleeves. According to Salotti, a check with the Department of Motor Vehicles revealed the car was stolen. The woman was transported by University Police to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and treated for an injured eye. She was released from the hospital later that night, and her friend was unharmed. In a separate incident, University Police responded to a report that approximately $930 was stolen from an unlocked desk drawer in the offices of the Department of Residential Living in High Rise North. The cash was stolen between October 1 and yesterday, according to Salotti.

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