CU Safety Alert: Second Degree Assault Outside of Ekeley Building, South of Norlin

[11:45 p.m. | Friday, October 31, 2025]

To the CU Boulder community:

This message is sent in the interest of public safety and in compliance with federal law requiring timely warning notification of crimes committed on or near campus.

This message contains information about or descriptions of a violent crime.

It is reported that CUPD is investigating a reported second degree assault that occurred at 10:42 p.m. outside of CU Boulder’s Ekeley Building, south of Norlin Library.

A male victim was jumped by a male suspect traveling with a group of three other individuals. He struck the victim several times, knocking him to the ground.

The victim called 9-1-1 and is being treated for his injuries. The suspect is described as wearing a tan hat with a dark bill, neon green t-shirt with a gray hoodie underneath the t-shirt, and blue jeans. The suspect was last seen running northwest through Norlin quad.

View a map of the location of this incident.

CUPD is investigating. Anyone with information regarding this crime or the suspect’s location is encouraged to contact CUPD at 303-492-6666 and reference case #2025-2145. If you wish to share information anonymously, information on contacting Safe2Tell or Colorado Crime Stoppers is available on the CUPD website: https://www.colorado.edu/police/records-reports/anonymous-reporting

If additional information becomes available regarding this incident, it will be added to the CU Boulder Alerts website:  https://alerts.colorado.edu/

The following tips can help protect you from an assault:

• Be aware of your surroundings.
• Download the CU Boulder Safe app. It offers text-to-dispatch, Virtual Walkhome with dispatch and friend walk features, safety tips and the ability to send police to your location if you need help.
• Don’t walk home alone at night. Walk in groups and stay in well-lit areas whenever as much as possible.
• Walk away from a situation if you feel it is  being escalatingescalated escalating.
• Look out for others and help de-escalate potentially harmful situations.
• If you think you are being followed, find someone nearby to ask for help, or try to head to a well-populated, well-lit area and call 911.If you think someone may be following you, find someone nearby to ask for help, or try to head to a well-populated, well-lit area and call 911.

For more information on how to report an incident, visit colorado.edu/reporting-cu-boulder. To learn more about prevention and support resources, including how to look out for and support others, visit colorado.edu/dontignoreit.

Campus Safety Information

This message is being sent pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (“Clery Act”), a federal law that requires disclosure of major crime and policy information. For more information on the Clery Act and CU Boulder’s policies, please see the Clery website.

Help fight crime by reporting suspicious persons or activity to CUPD immediately.

Please note that CU Boulder's Police Department is committed to ensuring that individuals' identities/protected class are not considered the basis for suspicion; only the reported behaviors and circumstances are taken into consideration when investigating a case. Additionally, the observed/assumed sex assignment used placed in alerts is not intended to be definitive or prescriptive. We will continue to put forth efforts to minimize or and eliminate the potential harmharms placed on our community as a result of this action.

If you have experienced a traumatic incident, you have options for services and assistance. For free and confidential support please contact CU Boulder’s Office of Victim Assistance (OVA), https://www.colorado.edu/ova/ 303-492-8855 (24/7 phone support). OVA is a resource for those impacted by a traumatic experience as well as for witnesses and those supporting impacted people.