Under-desk assaults bring UK crime alert - FOX41.com Louisville News Kentucky Indiana News Weather Sports
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- University of Kentucky police issued a campus crime alert Wednesday night after two reports of a man puncturing victims' feet under a desk at the W. T. Young Library.
Police call it a fourth degree assault. A statement says police were called about an incident in the library basement Monday evening and later learned of a second, similar incident from the same day and location.
"In both incidents the victims reported that the suspect crawled under the study desk and used an unknown object to puncture their feet," the crime alert statement said.
Police described the suspect as white male, 5-feet-8 to 6-feet tall, with short hair and possibly a buzz cut, wearing a hat and bright orange shorts or shoes.
He was last seen walking toward the vending machines in the library basement. The Young library is the main library on UK's Lexington campus.
UK police ask anyone with information to call (859) 257-1616 or #UKPD (#8573) from any cell phone.