Students at Loyola University are being urged to be extra vigilant after two students were robbed two minutes apart Friday night near the Rogers Park campus.
The university sent out an email to the campus community Saturday, warning of two incidents reported at around 10 p.m. on Friday night. In the first incident, at 10:08 p.m., a student walking near West Arthur Avenue and North Lakewood Avenue was approached by someone who demanded their cell phone and threatened them with a gun, according to campus safety officials.
The offenders then fled eastbound on West Arthur Avenue. Neither of the students sustained any injuries. Morgan Segmour, a junior at the university, told NBC 5 she lives just feet away from where one of the robberies took place.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. "It makes me scared to walk somewhere alone..." she said."It only happened ten at night. It wasn’t even in the middle of the night."
Students who talked to NBC 5 said crimes have been reported on campus in the past, but don't remember other incidents taking place in such a short time span.Local
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