University of Houston Hit With Third Armed Robbery on Campus This Year
“According to the university, the suspect pulled out a gun on multiple people, demanded they hand over their purses, and then took off.”
Given that it’s only early February, this news is fairly alarming.
KTRK News reports:
University of Houston students react to another armed robbery on campus, third one this year
With a new year comes a new semester for University of Houston students. They expected new classes and professors, but the unexpected was a security alert on Saturday morning, notifying the Cougar community of another robbery on campus.
The alert, sent on Saturday morning before many students had even opened a textbook, reported an aggravated robbery in the parking lot at Bayou Oaks, which is part of on-campus housing.
According to the university, the suspect pulled out a gun on multiple people, demanded they hand over their purses, and then took off.
That makes three robberies on campus this year.
UH Police report the last robbery happened Jan. 14 at the Student Accessibility Center, when officials say a gunman demanded a woman send him money through CashApp.
Before that, there was another armed robbery on Jan. 7 at the TDECU Credit Union inside the Student Center.
One student said a professor now reminds the class to be cautious when leaving late.
Sophomore Daniel Omoregieo said he avoids being out late.
“I don’t go out late. Like I just stay inside most of the time, just be in my room playing games and stuff like that,” he said.
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The semester I was a student at UH, someone tried to steal my bicycle, but the campus cops caught him.
Was this pre-, or post-, Katrina? Houston became more, er, “vibrant” post-Katrina.
Pre-Katrina. I remember reading that the New Orleans Katrina immigrants to Houston did not make a good impression. Work-shy. I knew a couple of New Orleans Katrina immigrants to where I live in TX—not in Houston. My impression was that they were work-shy. At least in the two years I knew them, I didn’t hear of any jobs they had. BTW, they were white.
Speaking of vibrant, I got mugged on the East Side (Hispanic) of Houston. I had no money or credit cards in my wallet, so they took my eyeglasses. It was a temporary inconvenience, as I had a new pair on order. No violence, fortunately. BTW, the muggers were also white.
I’m in S. La. and I recall a radio ad airing about a year post-Katrina something to the effect:
“If you are from New Orleans and would like to go back, Texas will fund you for the ticket and transportation costs of going home.”
They had had quite enough of their “visitors” too.
Wouldn’t that identify him? Was he tracked down and arrested?
the pd reports all clues lead to a je wish student
Houston?
Naw, keep on defunding law enforcement.
They haven’t gotten it good and hard enough yet,
“I don’t go out late. Like I just stay inside most of the time, just be in my room playing games and stuff like that,” he said.
Effectively lock up the students and allow the criminals to run free.
My wife (fiancee at the time) and I were held up at gunpoint in New Orleans back in the ’80s and it took YEARS to get her to go out after dark for any kind of public social event.
When I got to Portland from Balmer 30 years ago I was shocked at how many people were out and about at all hours. If there was that much traffic in Balmer, the Murder rate would be 10X higher. It took me about a year to get comfortable again with wandering around pretty much anywhere and any time I wanted. Since the Wuflu thing, I think we are still only at maybe 70-80% opened up. Restaurants are still closing an hour or two earlier than they used to, and I know of only one coffee shop open after 7. Grocery stores are opening an hour later in the morning and closing one or two hours earlier in the eveing mostly to combat shoplifting. I suspect much of it is to keep the populace scared and thus amenable to restrictions on their freedom. I kind of liked the shutdown because I didn’t and pretty much had the eastside to myself after dark.
And House Bill 99 in Louisiana … would remove degree-granting universities and colleges getting any state funds from the Gun Free Zone listing of “schools”.
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillDocs.aspx?i=249731&t=digests