Approximate reconstructionCollege of Charleston Department of Public Safety, Timely Warning blog post (Oct. 27, 2017)701 chars
The College of Charleston Department of Public Safety is issuing this Timely Warning to notify the campus community of a sexual assault reported on October 27, 2017. At approximately 2:00 a.m., a female student was in her room in a residence hall on Saint Philip Street, north of Calhoun Street, when she heard a knock at her door. When she opened the door, an unknown male forced his way into the room and sexually assaulted her before leaving. The suspect is described as a white male, 18 to 20 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a medium build and medium-length brown hair. Anyone with information is asked to contact the College of Charleston Department of Public Safety.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
RECONSTRUCTED, NOT VERBATIM — the CofC Public Safety blog that hosts the original timely warning 403-blocks automated fetching, so this text is reconstructed from the facts the warning is reported to contain (location 'Saint Philip Street, north of Calhoun Street'; the 2:00 a.m. knock-and-force-entry; the white-male, 18-20, 5'8"-5'10", medium build, medium-length brown hair description) as quoted across the Post and Courier, Live 5 News, and ABC News 4; exact phrasing and any closing boilerplate may differ
The College deliberately withheld the specific residence hall, describing it only as 'Saint Philip Street, north of Calhoun Street' — a vagueness that drew sustained criticism from the Post and Courier and from students, since four residence halls (Berry, McAlister, Kelly, and Warren) fit that description
Withholding the complainant's identity is required for sexual-assault timely warnings under the Clery Act, but withholding the building location is a discretionary institutional choice that this case became a notable example of