Student Allegedly Robbed at Gunpoint
A Georgetown graduate student was reportedly robbed at gunpoint on Prospect Street early Saturday morning, sustaining a small injury beneath his eye before his assaulters fled the scene.
Zachary Levey (GRD ’08) reported that around 3:20 a.m., two men approached him as he was walking alone on the 3400 block of Prospect Street. One of the men asked him for a cigarette.
“I go to reach down and they kind of rush me,” Levey said. “There was a slight struggle, and they pulled out a gun and stuck it underneath my neck.”
The first suspect then said, “Give me your fucking money,” according to a Metropolitan Police Department incident report.
The two suspects then reached into Levey’s pockets and took out his cell phone and wallet, according to the report. After securing the items, the first suspect hit Levey underneath his left eye with the gun, described as a small, silver revolver. Levey said the hit from the revolver “kind of [made] it an easy getaway [for the assailants].”
The suspects then ran east on Prospect Street, according to the MPD report.
After the incident, Levey flagged down a nearby Department of Public Safety officer, who called MPD to the scene.
In the MPD report, Levey described the first suspect as a 5-foot-10 black male between the ages of 30 and 40. He described the second suspect as a 6-foot-2 black male between the ages of 30 and 40.
Levey said that the only injury he suffered was a welt under his eye. An ambulance responded to the MPD call and examined Levey, who subsequently refused hospital treatment.
“A black eye’s a black eye,” he said.
Although Levey said he still considers the area around campus reasonably safe, he acknowledged the need for better lighting on many of the Georgetown streets.
“It’s too easy,” he said. “People can hide in the shadows so easily and just wait for somebody to come by.”
Levey added that he has no plan to change his routine as a result of the incident. “Things like that happen,” he said. “I’m not going to change my habits. You can’t live in fear.”
According to the report, the incident is still under investigation by MPD.
MPD Second District Lt. Roland Hoyle said it is unclear whether robbers are targeting Georgetown students, but that perpetrators in incidents such as this are “definitely targeting the northwest section, where people have a lot of money and there are a lot of businesses.”
Hoyle added, though, that the recent incidents do not constitute an increase in robberies in Georgetown. He said that in January 2007, five robberies were reported in police service area 206, the sector of the Second District in which Georgetown is located, compared to four reported robberies in the same area this year.
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Once again, crime has struck one of our fellow Hoyas. The university administration must work with the city to demand safer living conditions for the students and residents who share the Georgetown neighborhood.
In the event that the administration does not take publicized action and actively work to decrease crime in the area, I argue that students should protest by threatening to distribute information pamphlets to accepted students and their parents at the upcoming GAAP weekends. A simple list of the alleged armed robberies, break-ins, and muggings would theoretically scare off dozens of potential Hoyas. If I were currently a high school senior, I would certainly like to consider my future safety when considering where to spend the next four years.
I have no doubt enjoyed my 3.5 years as a Georgetown student and would not trade it for anything in the world. However, I do not want to see any more Hoyas suffer as a result of our complacency or ineptitude.
Matt Homyk
SFS Class of 2008
Visit the Georgetown University Crime blog at http://georgetowncrime.blogspot.com/
Is this crime and past gunpoint and knife point robberies "alleged" because there is doubt that your fellow students have in fact been robbed at gunpoint? Will the word alleged still be used when a student shows up at GUMC with a gunshot wound?.
When will you geniuses wake up and send a clear message to the administration...We have had enough!!!! The threat of Pamphlets?
Is that a strategic SFS response?
Do something now or your next trip to Rhino or Saxbys may be your last.
What do you suggest as a powerful way of sending a message to the administration? The administration does not seem to acknowledge the problem to be all that important. The pamphlet idea was the only one I could come up with as something that demonstrates a possible threat to the leaders of the school. If you have better ideas about possible methods of convincing them to take the crisis seriously, please share and take part in doing something about this instead of simply threatening current students with the dangers of living in this neighborhood, such as murder on my way to Saxby's.
Matt Homyk
SFS Class of 2008
Visit http://georgetowncrime.blogspot.com
Matt,
You are correct. I should offer a solution. Here are some options.
1. Overcome student apathy first. Make sure all students understand the frequency and seriousness of rising crime rates against students.
Set up a table at Red Square and educate your fellow students. They are at risk walking home from the library.
2. Prepare a petition signed by students with a threat to demonstrate at all GAAP weekends,ALUMNI gatherings and Board meetings.
3. Finally , threaten to "go off the reservation" by inviting media to a student sponsored rally demanding better security and safety.
Instead of pamphleting the accepted students, why not distribute information to prospective student tours also?
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