An 18-year-old University of Colorado student escaped what police are calling an attempted abduction Tuesday night near Boulder’s Williams Village complex, the latest in an apparently unrelated series of assaults on young women in the city since shortly before Halloween.
The blonde-haired man in his mid-20s first offered the woman a ride as she walked near 30th Street and Baseline Road about 7:30 p.m., according to school officials.
He then tried to grab her, but the woman fought him off and escaped. She never saw a car or truck. The assailant is described as about six feet tall, 200 pounds, and wore scruffy goatee, a black winter jacket and a black hoodie.
The university has stepped up patrols and urged caution after six previous reports of assaults or attempted assaults on young women in Boulder.
Victims range in age from 18 to 30. Some have been hit, strangled, raped and, in one case, gang-raped, but Boulder police have found no link between any of the cases.
The last reported assault was Dec. 5, when a 21-year-old CU student who was jumped in an alley to the west of 12th Street between College and Euclid avenues, according to police.
The first recent assault was reported by a 20-year-old woman said she was raped by four men on Oct. 30, when she was walking home from a Halloween party, in an alley east of 15th Street and north of Arapahoe Avenue.
