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MU issues 8th crime alert after 2 suspects force entry into home
Caroline Briggs
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: Front Page
Miami University was informed April 23 of an off-campus incident that occurred early Sunday morning to a Miami sophomore - increasing this year's total to eight campus crime alerts.
According to the notice e-mailed to students, faculty and staff, at about 1:10 a.m. Sunday, April 22, two college-aged white males forced entry into an apartment at Hawks Landing - formerly University Commons - on Brown Road after sophomore Bill Calpin answered the door.
According to police reports, after the two males entered the apartment, they choked Calpin, holding him against a wall, and demanded to speak with another roommate - who not in the apartment at the time - about money.
Calpin said that he looked through the peephole in his door and saw one "nice looking" male, and opened the door just a few inches before it was quickly forced open.
A large, masked subject then allegedly grabbed Calpin from behind with both arms around Calpin's neck.
Caplin said the unmasked subject that he saw when opening the door then began yelling and also choking Calpin. The smaller unmasked assaulter was asking for money the roommate owed him, according to Calpin.
The two men then allegedly threw the victim into the other roommate's room to make sure that he wasn't there. Calpin said that throughout the incident, he was being threatened and choked.
"They were brutalizing me," Calpin said. "Of all the things that I would have guessed would happen to me that night, this was not one of them."
Calpin says he assumes the males had been watching the residence before knocking, because 40 minutes prior to the incident, there had been five other males in the apartment with him. He said that they parked their small sedan by backing in, ensuring a quick get-away. He said he noticed the car's headlights shine into the apartment about 20 minutes before the knock at the door.
Though searching for his roommate's money, Calpin said the men were not intent on burglarizing the apartment.
According to the notice e-mailed to students, faculty and staff, at about 1:10 a.m. Sunday, April 22, two college-aged white males forced entry into an apartment at Hawks Landing - formerly University Commons - on Brown Road after sophomore Bill Calpin answered the door.
According to police reports, after the two males entered the apartment, they choked Calpin, holding him against a wall, and demanded to speak with another roommate - who not in the apartment at the time - about money.
Calpin said that he looked through the peephole in his door and saw one "nice looking" male, and opened the door just a few inches before it was quickly forced open.
A large, masked subject then allegedly grabbed Calpin from behind with both arms around Calpin's neck.
Caplin said the unmasked subject that he saw when opening the door then began yelling and also choking Calpin. The smaller unmasked assaulter was asking for money the roommate owed him, according to Calpin.
The two men then allegedly threw the victim into the other roommate's room to make sure that he wasn't there. Calpin said that throughout the incident, he was being threatened and choked.
"They were brutalizing me," Calpin said. "Of all the things that I would have guessed would happen to me that night, this was not one of them."
Calpin says he assumes the males had been watching the residence before knocking, because 40 minutes prior to the incident, there had been five other males in the apartment with him. He said that they parked their small sedan by backing in, ensuring a quick get-away. He said he noticed the car's headlights shine into the apartment about 20 minutes before the knock at the door.
Though searching for his roommate's money, Calpin said the men were not intent on burglarizing the apartment.
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