Armed Men Accost Women On Uni Hill: Police Seek Information

BOULDER, CO - In two separate events in the last week on University Hill, women were accosted by an armed group of men. Boulder Police are investigating both incidents. In both cases, the men attempted to force a woman into a car, and in one case, they were successful, according to a press release from the Boulder Police Department.

Shortly before midnight on Oct. 4, police report that a woman left a party near 20th and Mariposa Avenue. Someone came up behind her, choked her and forced her into the backseat of what she described to be a white Subaru-style SUV. A man in the backseat displayed a handgun in his waistband and said, “just let me do what I want.” Three suspects occupied the vehicle. The two in the front seat are described as white men between the age of 18 and 22, and the driver had shoulder-length, blonde curly hair.

The men drove the woman around for roughly ten minutes, but released her when they heard something that sounded like sirens. Police have released a composite sketch of the man in the backseat, which is the header image to this article.

On Oct. 6, between midnight and 1:30 a.m., a group of four or five women left a party together and walked northbound on 11th Street just past Pennsylvania Avenue. A vehicle pulled up to them with three to four men inside, and the front seat passenger asked them where they were going, and informed the women that they were coming with them.

When the women told the men in the car to leave them alone, the front seat passenger, described as as a white male, in his early to mid-20s with dark hair, displayed a handgun and racked the slide before the vehicle drove off northbound on 11th Street. An image of a vehicle similar to the one involved in this incident accompanies this article.

Police have increased patrols in the University Hill area, and detectives are working with the women involved in order to gain further information.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Kurt Foster at 303-441-4329, or submit an anonymous report through the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers website.

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Image courtesy Boulder Police Department.