Man Groped 2 Women Walking On Rutgers Campus Monday Night, Police Say

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Two women say they were groped by a man Monday night as they walked through the College Avenue campus in New Brunswick, and two more were approached by the same man moments later, according to the Rutgers University Police Department.

Police say they think all the incidents were committed by a single perpetrator in rapid succession; the man is described as a 30–40-year-old Indian male, standing five-feet-nine-inches tall, who was wearing blue jeans, a long-sleeved white shirt, and beige baseball cap at the time.

All four of the women — who do not know each other — said a man they did not know approached them, touched their "intimate parts" and then fled, said police. All four of the incidents happened in quick succession between 9 and 9:20 p.m. Monday, said police.

All the women are Rutgers students or affiliated with the university, and all were walking through the College Avenue campus, which is the heart of the Rutgers New Brunswick campus.

In the first two incidents, the man groped two different Rutgers students between 9 and 9:05 p.m.: The first woman was sexually touched near the intersection of Bishop Place and College Avenue and the second just minutes later near the intersection of Sicard and Stone streets.

In the second two incidents, he physically approached two more women, but did not actually touch them, said police. That happened between 9:10 and 9:15 p.m., at Bartlett and Sicard streets and Bartlett and Wyckoff street.

All four women were not physically injured during the incidents. Rutgers Police say they are investigating this as an incident of criminal sexual contact and/or harassment.

The New Brunswick Police Department asks that anyone with information, or who may have been in the area at the time, contact the NBPD’s Detective Bureau at 732-745-5217.