The Northern Kentucky University Police Department has issued a campus crime alert after a student reported a sexual assault in a parking lot on the Highland Heights campus on Feb. 15.

According to the alert, the student reported that a man approached her in Lot I as she was walking to her car from Steely Library. The man covered her mouth and eyes with his hand and began putting his hand up her shirt. The victim was able to get away by punching the man in the face and securing herself in her parked vehicle.