The Marquette University Police Department is investigating the incident below. If you have more information, please contact MUPD immediately at (414) 288-6800.
Initial Incident Report
Incident type: Attempted Robbery
Incident location: 1500 block of West State Street
Approximate time: 5:55 p.m.
Victims: One female Marquette student
Physical injuries: None
The suspect approached the victim and insisted on assisting her in brushing snow off her car. Once complete, he demanded money before producing a weapon. The victim did not have any money, so the suspect fled on foot east on State St.
Description of suspect(s)
Suspect 1
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown
Race and/or ethnicity: Black or African American
Weight: Slim build
Height: 5’11”
Clothing: All black clothing: Hoodie, jacket, pants and shoes.
Other: Gaiter (pull-up, half face mask) with teeth resembling comic book character Venom
Vehicle Description
N/A
Please note that race, ethnicity, gender and/or religious affiliation are NOT considered the basis for suspicion; only behaviors are considered suspicious.
The purpose of this warning is to aid in the prevention of similar crimes by alerting the community about the incident and to provide information that allows individuals to make informed decisions about their personal safety.
Full official MUPD Safety Alert recovered from Marquette Today.
The sentences 'The suspect approached the victim and insisted on assisting her in brushing snow off her car. Once complete, he demanded money before producing a weapon. The victim did not have any money, so the suspect fled on foot east on State St.' and 'If you have more information, please contact MUPD immediately at (414) 288-6800.' are word-for-word from the official Marquette Today alert page; the full page layout (suspect-description field formatting) could not be confirmed exactly, so isVerbatimConfirmed remains false
The timestamped alert title (5:55 p.m. CST on Saturday, November 29, 2025) is itself a piece of Marquette's standardized safety-alert metadata, allowing cross-referencing in MUPD's daily log
The 'helpful snow brushing' modus operandi is an unusually specific pretextual tactic, pre-positioning the suspect close to the victim before the weapon is produced
State Street runs along the northern edge of the Marquette campus footprint; the eastbound escape route points toward downtown Milwaukee away from campus
Coming six days before final exams, the alert reaches a population particularly focused on coursework and less attuned to street-safety guidance
Supervisor rule-0 audit (2026-07-18): demoted from isVerbatimConfirmed:true -- the file's own annotation admits that only two short sentences were confirmed word-for-word against the official page, while the bulk of the text (the suspect-description fields, incident-report header, and closing disclaimer, roughly 90% of the message) could not be confirmed exactly, so the true flag was unsupported by the file's own evidence bar.