Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Rape Prompts DePaul U. to Boost Security

Security will be stepped up at DePaul University's Lincoln Parkcampus after a 26-year-old student was raped in a classroom buildingas her husband attended an evening class down the hall, officialssaid Friday.

The woman was studying alone in a sixth-floor conference room inByrne Hall at 2219 N. Kenmore about 8:25 p.m. Thursday when a manentered the room and threatened to kill her, investigators said.

The man said he had a knife, but didn't display one, she toldpolice. After the attack, she hit a button on a Byrne security callbox, then walked to the university security office a block away, saidThomas Gibbons, a university spokesman.

The victim was treated …

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