Police are investigating a series of assaults and robberies on or near the Auraria campus in downtown Denver, including a double-stabbing Monday morning.
Four incidents have occurred since Feb. 16, three in the past week. It’s not clear whether the attacks are related.
Campus police and student leaders will discuss the attacks today at a meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Tivoli.
Two male Metro State students were slashed in their dorm room at the Inn at Auraria at 9:45 a.m. Monday. The students were treated at Denver Health Medical Center.
An Auraria officer answering the 911 call arrested two men suspected in the assault a few minutes later at Speer Boulevard and Champa Street, Metro State spokeswoman Cathy Lucas said.
Lt. Matt Murray, a Denver police spokesman, on Tuesday said city detectives working on the campus assaults have not released information about the men arrested, but preliminary information about the attack suggests “a drug rip-off.”
At 3:20 p.m. Monday, a Metro State student was walking at Seventh and Lawrence streets when she was grabbed from behind by a man who tried to take her purse, according to campus police.
In the struggle, she was punched in the stomach. Her assailant then ran away without the purse.
On Thursday about 9:20 p.m., a Metro State student was shoved down and her purse was taken in a parking lot behind the Campus Village, a school dormitory.
Campus police did not get a description of the robber.
On Feb. 16, two men forced their way into an apartment at the Inn at Auraria, demanded money and assaulted a University of Colorado Denver student before taking his wallet.
Surveillance cameras captured images of the two men, but information about whether they were the same men suspected in Monday’s attack at the dorm on 14th Street was not available Tuesday.
