UPDATE: Friday, October 1, 10:45am
Charlottesville Police is investigating a report of an attempted robbery that occurred near the UVA Corner at 1am this morning.
A female UVA student reported to police that she was walking alone on Elliewood Avenue when a man, described as an African-American in his early 20s, 6’1"-6’2" tall, with a blue zip-up sweatshirt, gray sweat pants and tennis shoes, approached her, searched her pockets and asked for money and credit cards.
The man, who walked the student to the Corner’s Bank of America where they were met by a group of people, fled.
This is the third incident of the kind in a two-day period.
Charlottesville Police arrested a man in connection with two attacks on UVA students that occurred the night of September 29.
Carlton William Arnold, 28, was arrested after being identified by residents via a video that was broadcast on local media networks. Arnold is charged with abduction by force, robbery with a firearm, aggravated sexual battery, two counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Two female students reported being approached by an African-American man on September 29. The first victim was walking on Wertland Street at 7pm and the second on 15th Street just three hours later.
In both incidents, the students said the man approached them, asked for money and forced the second victim at gunpoint to walk with him to ATMs to withdraw money.
According to NCB29, Arnold was recently released from prison for the 1998 murder of Osama Hassan at a Shell gas station on Ivy Road.
