Online Sale Goes Bad As Seller Pulls Gun On Student: Cops

ROMEOVILLE, IL — A Lewis University student was able to escape without injury after a man claiming to be an online seller attempted to rob him at gunpoint Friday night. Lewis University police said the male student had arranged to buy a cell phone using a smartphone app, and had agreed to meet the seller in a university parking lot at around 9:30 p.m. Friday.

When the student met with the supposed seller in Lot L, the suspect produced a handgun and ordered him to hand over all his money. The student was able to escape "without injury or loss of property," police said.

The suspect is described as a 5-foot-9 black male with a slim build, hair shaved on the sides and slightly longer on top, wearing a gray hoodie and dark pants. He fled the scene in an older-model white four-door sedan with darkly tinted windows and silver rims, police said.

Lewis University police are investigating the incident and are asking anyone with information to contact LUPD at extension 5222 or 815-836-5222.

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