Cops: Temple students bound, robbed during home invasion
Police are searching for three men who allegedly bound a group of Temple University students during a home invasion robbery.
Cops: Temple students bound, robbed during home invasion
Police are searching for three men who allegedly bound a group of Temple University students during a home invasion robbery.
The incident was reported at 7:30 p.m. at an off-campus residence on North 18th Street near Berks. Police said a female student was walking home and was followed by three black males, two of which were armed. The males allegedly forced the woman inside her second-floor apartment.
The woman and three female roommates who were inside the apartment were duct taped, police said. The robbers took off with computer equipment, cell phones, an uknown amount of cash and numerous credit cards. The victims were not harmed.
The university sent an advisory to students notifying them of the incident at 9:14 p.m. The advisory urged students to use caution in the area and "take advantage of TUr Door and other forms of transportation."
No arrests have been made.
Comments (66)
The victims were not PHYSICALLY harmed.— johnnycola- would never have anyone live off campus at Temple.....just asking to be assaulted and/or robbed..— Bigbirch
- Bigbirch- is that also your opinion about rape? — gb
- Thugs. Absolute degenerate trash. They don't deserve to live if they can't act like human beings. What a shocker.— hawkfan722
They could have went anywhere but they went to Temple.— TimmyDay- The university isn't the problem. It's a great place. It's the degenerate racist neighbors who prey upon students of all races and religions and rob them. That's a statement of fact. Look at the numbers. — hawkfan722
- But that racist SOB Darrell Clarke will tell you that Temple students are the problem. Meanwhile, people in his neighborhood are acting like animals and that can't be disputed in this situation. Do something about it, Clarke!— hawkfan722
- LMAO. What was that controversial Philadelphia Magazine article about?— fire fighter
- Memo to degenerate thugs in Philadelphia: if you want to be a real man, go to school and make something of your life. Racism won't end if you keep acting like animals.— hawkfan722
- Had to be white on white crime,,,!!!— Markitup
- Horrific. Sadly, North Philadelphia remains one of the most dangerous parts of a city which had the highest per capita murder rate of major cities in 2011. Temple tries so hard to market academics and sports, but this stuff is damaging to those efforts.— TR3
- Make it a gated community, that's the only answer
Acres of diamonds... LOL— Markitup - Temple should bypass the local community groups and keep bulldozing north to their hospital, east to Fishtown, and south to Center city.— Anthony Palmer
- Its Temple what do you expect, that's why you go to another school— johnphilly
- Enuf with the race remarks. A group of white men robbed, beat and tied up a 94 year old woman. One of the perpetrators was her grandson. I could call them all worthless white trash and other derogatory names to prove what.
There is good and bad in all races of people. I live in the black community and I am always pissed off to see innocent looking white people wondering thru the hood looking for drugs, sex and whatever else. Stop the race hate, black people are not bad. After all, crime,theft, stealing, violence are mostly attributed to Europeans. There are very few jails and prisons in Africa. There is not a word for lock in many African villages. Most Africans don't lock their doors. You've taught us a lot of wrong in America, we didn't come here like this, you did. So shut the front door on your way out.— MzMilz - 6% of the population commits 53% of all murders and 70% of all violent crime. Guess who that is you idiot. In Africa they just rape and murder. Africa is a disgrace and it is a black continent. Please go back!! — yolo40
This happened on Bill Cosby's watch.— lathe- This is an awful occurrence, yes. Philadelphia is however a city... As a product of a rural community, later a Temple student, and now a Philadelphia resident, I can tell you that evil is everywhere. I spent three of my four years at Temple in an off campus apartment and I was lucky enough to never have had a problem, nor did I feel anymore a target there than anywhere else. Income disparities and a concentrated population will always attract crime. It is sad but true.— KLynn
- My son spent 4 years at Temple living off campus starting his sophomore year. He made sure his rental was not in the ghetto but he still had to be street smart especially when biking down Diamond to the river for rowing practice.— ganjoka
- And parents continue to send their children to Temple. It bewilders me that someone would place his or her daughter in jeopardy. That neighborhood is a jungle.— Disco Dave
- Welcome to the jungle— callitlikeiseethem
- See, these were nice guys. They didn't hurt anyone even though they had guns.— Boru
- Temple preyed.— albrock
- it must be those Asian students taking a study break from math, statistics, nuclear medicine, chemistry and computer science studies - just blowing off a little steam. Or those Jewish youths taking a break from daily academia and classes on 'How to control the media, banking, and the entertainment world.'. It's got to be one of these groups.— zen
- White liberals get what they deserve. They could have gone anywhere but they chose Temple. Really?— MWW-54
- I went to Temple in the 80's'. It was bad back then. Gold chain rip offs on campus in the daylight hours. Most students knew that you never ventured north of Broad Street if you wanted to remain alive.— LarsMendte2
- I am shocked the women weren't sexually assaulted. And I certainly hope this wasn't an incident of the students selling drugs, cutting in on the neighborhood business. That's been known to happen. I'm surprised that parents don't tour the area before allowing their young naive teenagers to move in those houses and walk those streets. When you have the privileged few intermingling with the disadvantaged many you're going to cause resentment. I don't know what the answer is but I know my children wouldn't live in such a dangerous area. Not as long as I have anything to say about it.— iodine
- What's the problem here? These kids are at Temple to get an education and they just learned a valuable lesson. Work hard, make money and it will be forceably taken from you and redistributed to the lazy takers of our society. Welcome to the real world of supporting every ghetto dweller. This is probably a new Obama program where two birds are killed with one stone: handouts are given freely as usual and young white americans get a dose of what will happen the rest of their lives.— Chaz-taz
- Only time Clarke or the block captain care is when the bad guy gets shot,like what happened a few years ago. Student sitting on his porch when 2 thugs walled up with a gun.The student pulls his own gun and shoots one of the thugs.Then a block captain complains that the student was looking for trouble because he was sitting on his porch late at night.— callitlikeiseethem
- Yes, North Philly is rough. Poor , dienfranchised folks committ crimes. It's a dymanic throughout history. However, how many North Philly schools have been attacked and students executed by gunmen with assault weapons? And WHO is the "animal"?— former Mt.Airy Kid
- 300 deaths last year alone in the county of Philadelphia, 26 at Sandy Hook. An area full of trash vs one piece of trash. Point well taken
— 835union - LarsMendte2, I remember that from the news in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The big thing then was to go up to people and rip the large gold earings off heads and rips gold necklaces off necks.
That was around the time when Temple University wanted to move to the very top of Broad Street and out of the city limits. Mayor Wilson Goode gave land and tax breaks to keep Temple where they are.
Temple stayed.— 1000hugs - Years ago my daughter naively mentioned Temple as an option when selecting colleges. Since I was paying the room, board and tuition, that idea was immediately rejected. Yes, I generalized. Yes, my mind immediately went to the stereotypical vision of our dangerous, third world like urban culture. I proudly discriminated based on the demographics up of the neighborhood to improve the likelihood of my daughter safe. It's also why I live in the civilized suburbs. Statistics are objective. You can easily reduce your chance of becoming a victim by knowing who the perpetrators are likely to be, where they nest and avoiding those areas.— jgalt52
- Three black males ? Are you sure ?— Joe R.
- The students got an advanced degree in ghetto studies.— 2ndNlong
- Yes, the guys who did this are indeed bad people, and should be penalized to the fullest extent of the law.
Now that everyone has gotten their morning racism out of the way, i hope you feel better about yourselves. I hate to always agree with MtAiryKid, but he's right. You guys are so awestruck by these occurances, but become eerily silent when the perps are white. So like him, i am forced to ask... who are the real animals???— DontBeAHypocrite - The real animals are the pigs and thugs who did this. Aren't they? — Themonkofmagdalena
- .....and Ronde Jefferson wants to go to Arizona?— TheDude
- Typical, typical, typical...— elfman
- Just another example of African American THUGS preying on innocent white people. Temple students need to start doing open carry and sart whacking these criminals when they're attacked.— Themonkofmagdalena
- @Meat Hook. I don't get offended at all, i actually enjoy the hypocrisy, of only seeing crime of one color. Cause these are the frightened children, that hide behind their keyboards, and type racist filth, cause they aren't man enough to speak their true feelings aloud in public.
I believe i was clear in putting down the perps of this attacks. See, i am not like the posters above, i don't have an issue with calling out my own race for its atrocities. But after i call out my race... i will then call out the cowardly e-racists that post here as well.— DontBeAHypocrite - Markitup has the answer--make the college a gated community. UPenn should do the same.— mo123
- To the commenters - how do we know the victims weren't African-American women? No specification is given.— le sigh
- As someone who ACTUALLY attends Temple and lives off-campus, I'm going to say that YES the area is sketchy and dangerous but Temple does try its hardest to have police patrolling the streets around campus, sitting at the corners, etc. And to all the people questioning why people would choose to go to Temple, it is an EXCELLENT school, say what you want about the neighborhood and the people, but the school is fantastic. In my four consecutive years here I have watched Temple flourish. Temple is unfortunately placed in a neighborhood where people make sweeping generalizations about who we are as students (and our wealth) but as evidenced from the comments here it seems to be working both ways. I am no way validating the actions of those men yesterday but do NOT blame the University for the actions of people that aren't even affiliated with this school.— TempleSenior
- Unfortunately Temple is located in a neighborhood with many a degenerate thug who start behaving that way at an early age. It is also home to many who don't behave that way. The same can be said of UofP which is located also in a crime ridden area. Temple is a good school which unfortunately has almost all campuses in crime ridden areas. The recent newspaper article about the lady from Tioga, up near Temple's health sciences campuses who wants to build new homes up there, get real, that is a real crime ridden area, maybe even more so than Temple's main campus, no decent person of any color wants to be in a crime ridden area. It is nothing like the revitalizatiion of Fishtown and Northern Liberties which by the way before the revitalization was plain old North Philly. It is not that safe to walk off campus even in daylight but at night, forget it, you can't argue with a gun. These women were very lucky that items were all that was taken. I hope appropriate administrators tell it like it is to incoming and current students on all campuses, that it is not safe to park or live anywhere off campus, that if they choose to do so, they need to use shuttle buses provided by the university or another type of escort service. This is just another incident that casts a dark shadow on Temple. That lady was very foolish to be walking around off campus in the dark, even if she had another person with her, they couldn't argue with a gun.— mother3
- " That lady was very foolish to be walking around off campus in the dark, even if she had another person with her, they couldn't argue with a gun."
Thats a load of bull dung, this girl was walking around at 7:30 pm. This is just another case of, a lazy piece of trash unwilling to work or go to school, and feels that your possessions belong to them.— 835union - Where's Reverend Al?— whynotpeace
- bulldoze baby bulldoze— raynesrock
- fire fighter has it absolutely correct. Not one day after the furor about the phillymag article and you have a perfect example of what the author was talking about. No, it was not an eloquent or particularly well-written piece. And it made sweeping generalizations, some of which are arguable (at best) or outright incorrect. And the author used third-party quotes awkwardly, leaving him open to accusations of racism. But at its core, it proved one irrefutable truth: If a white person makes the slightest negative observation about a black neighborhood (even something like, "North Philly is a dangerous place."), he or she will automatically be labeled a racist. Somehow, it's an assault on an entire race to say "I don't want my child subjected to a home invasion." Yes, there is considerable historical evidence of malicious intent on some white folks' part that contributed to North Philly's decline from middle class to under-served. But random magazine writers are not here to atone for those sins. Plenty of black folks won't send their kids to Temple out of concern for their safety. Somehow, this doesn't provoke the ire of the liberal elite.— Ino_Karate
- My wife and I went to Temple and so did a lot of our close friends, and we never had any problems. Yes, the area around Temple campus is bad and I feel horrible for the girls. But sometimes a little common sense would help stop some of the attacks. Maybe stop walking through North Philly with your head in your phone or your Ipod blasting in your ear where you can't hear anything. Not saying this is the case here but when going through Temple now, the students are paying more attention to their mobile devices than their surroundings. Just a thought...— PhillyBred
- TYPICAL PERPS!! PRODUCTS OF THE PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE WELFARE CLASS!!! EVERYTHING HANDED TO THEM SINCE INCEPTION, NO RESPONSIBILITY GIMME GIMME GIMME TAKE TAKE TAKE !!! CREEPS— wallycleaver
- Welcome to North Philly. Been that way for YEARS, not about to change anytime soon. Police avoid the area because they don't want to get hurt. Some would rather slap innocent women and false arrest them. Where are the police in North Philly? Overtime anyone?— ricciaje
- Hey Philadelphia Meat Hook... I guess you didn't READ my entire comments, I actually said that my suggestion MAY NOT be the case here...but of course you don't know how to read so you take my comments out of context. Typical right wing idiot who probably lives in a bubble.— PhillyBred
- 835union, while I can agree with your last sentence, forget the bull dung, at present it is dark at 7:30 PM, it is not safe off campus in the daylight, but after it gets dark, you have to be nuts to take even a few steps. These pieces of dung carry weapons, or there are usually more than one of them. As said if you want to go to Temple or any school located in such an area, common sense is a must. I went to Temple for a short while many years ago when the area wasn't good, and I went at night and took the subway home to Olney station, never felt threatened. I grew up in a poor area of North Philly and walked home from wherever I was without the kind of fear you need today. A new breed has emerged, one that has no fear of being caught, no fear of jail and no concern for human life, they also have guns which weren't available to them back then. I don't care if it's North Philly, a suburb where crime is rare, a newly revitalized area like NoLibs (remember Sabina who was bicycling home from a friend's home at two in the morning and was followed, raped and killed), it's sad but when it gets dark whether it's 7:30 or midnight, you must be overly cautious, the thugs, the degenerates and the nuts pop up all over. I'm not interested in going back and forth on this topic, only got into it again because the implication was that it was still light at 7:30 pm. Tell your family and friends it can happen to them, any place, any where, always err on the side of caution.— mother3
- Idiots!!!! All of you!!! Hate Hate Hate Hate...Anger Anger Anger...Hate Hate Hate!!!! JUST SAD!!! Animals calling other Animals ANIMALS!!!!— ite483
- Every freaking day you idiots banter about waiting to pounce on a story so you can hate on another race and do nothing to change anything. Always calling somebody out but NEVER EVER TRY TO CHANGE ANYTHING. NEVER EVEN TRY TO UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER. THEN WHEN A POSITIVE STORY COMES UP...LIKE ENGLAND's SMARTEST FAMILY IS BLACK...CRICKETS!!!!! NO COMMENT!!!! I PLEAD THE FIFTH!!!!! DO SOMETHING POSITIVE...BALANCE THE NEGATIVE WITH POSITIVE!!!! NO, BECAUSE YOUR WHOLE EXISTENCE IS MIRED IN NEGATIVITY...MISERABLE ZEALOTS WHO BASK IN THE OPPURTUNITY TO PUT OTHER DOWN TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELVES!!!
— ite483 - FOUND A TYPO....*OPPORTUNITY!!!! SINCE ONE OF YOU IDIOTS IS GONNA TRY TO DISCREDIT THE TRUTH BY POINTING OUT A TYPO.— ite483
- @ite- My caps lock key broke once too. Geek squad fixed it right up.
— DixonBunz - usual suspects. I did a semester at Temple once...ONCE.
Transferred to a better school not surrounded by garbage.— Breaking Bad - Welcome to Philadelphia. Its like this all over the city. I know of at quite a few push in robberies in the vaunted Center City and grad Hosp neighborhoods in the last few months....in the day time.— intelliwoman
- It's pretty sad when Fordham in the Bronx is safer than Temple.— Booper
- @dixonbunz - that was funny!!!!
@835union - im talking about everyone on both sides...take meds? I'm one of the few sane people who is actually sick of you lamos complaining and pointing fingers all the time!— ite483 - @835union - and it would make sense that your only reply would be that I name called...SMH!— ite483
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