(PORTLAND, OR) — This morning, Monday November 26, 2012, at 3:14 a.m., Portland Police responded to Southwest 10th Avenue and Market Street on the report of a sexual assault.
Officers arrived and contacted the victim, a female adult in her 20’s, and learned that she was walking to her dorm at Portland State University from the area of Southwest 10th Avenue and Yamhill Street. She remembered a man following her and that she was hit over the head, then woke up in an alley behind her dorm at Southwest 10th and Market.
Medical personnel responded and transported her to a Portland hospital for treatment. The victim is a student at Portland State University. She has been treated and released.
The most updated description of the suspect is: a white male in his mid-30’s, shaggy light brown hair, pronounced cheekbones, and an unshaven face.
Multiple police officers, including a Police K-9 Unit, have searched the neighborhood but have not located the suspect.
Anyone with information about this sexual assault is asked to call the Portland Police Bureau’s Sex Crime Unit at (503) 823-0400, or Detective Jason Christensen at (5053) 823-0894. Anyone with emergency information should call 9-1-1.
The Portland Police Bureau would like to remind community members that stranger-to-stranger sexual assaults fortunately are a rare occurrence.
The Portland Police Bureau works with the Sexual Assault Resource Center of Oregon (SARC) and we want you to know that you need not be alone as a survivor of a sexual assault. SARC has a 24-hour support line at (503) 640-5311.
Additionally, the Portland Police Bureau WomenStrength and GirlStrength programs provide free self-defense classes and personal safety workshops to people around the Portland area.
To learn more information about WomenStrength and GirlStrength, call (503) 823-0260 or visit www.portlandonline.com/police/womenstrength.
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