{
  "id": "2023-09-03-cleveland-state-euclid-avenue-robbery",
  "slug": "cleveland-state-euclid-avenue-robbery-2023-09-03",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Cleveland State University",
    "shortName": "CSU",
    "state": "OH",
    "type": "public-r2",
    "alertSystemName": "CSU Alert"
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2023-09-03",
    "type": "robbery",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Students robbed at a campus intersection; no weapons used and no injuries",
    "headlinePublic": "Students robbed at a campus intersection; no weapons used and no injuries",
    "summary": "At about 2:26 p.m. EDT on Sunday, September 3, 2023, students were robbed at the intersection of East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue on Cleveland State University's downtown campus. According to [WKYC](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/cleveland-state-university-police-investigating-robbery-euclid-avenue-east-22nd-street/95-3bd745d3-5c29-49bf-b014-5ab4e076a899), a CSU Alert reported the robbery, no weapons were used and no one was hurt, and a follow-up placed the fleeing suspects heading south near East 22nd Street and Prospect Avenue.",
    "outcome": "No injuries and no weapons were reported. Suspects, a man and a woman, fled the scene; as of the follow-up no arrests had been made.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2023-09-03T14:40:00-04:00",
      "timestampApprox": "Afternoon of September 3, 2023, after the 2:26 p.m. EDT robbery",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "There was a robbery that occurred at 2:26 p.m. at East 22 Euclid. Please stay away from the area, CSU Police are investigating. More info will follow.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/cleveland-state-university-police-investigating-robbery-euclid-avenue-east-22nd-street/95-3bd745d3-5c29-49bf-b014-5ab4e076a899",
      "sourceDescription": "WKYC, quoting the CSU Alert notification verbatim; the same text is quoted by The Cauldron, CSU's student newspaper",
      "annotations": [
        "The alert's shorthand location 'East 22 Euclid' (East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue) is the spine of CSU's downtown Cleveland campus, where university buildings sit directly on a public commercial corridor, blurring the line between campus and city street for Clery purposes.",
        "The initial message contained no suspect descriptions or weapon information; descriptions of the two suspects and the no-weapons detail were released in follow-up communications reported by WKYC and The Cauldron."
      ],
      "characterCount": 150
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2023-09-03T15:06:00-04:00",
      "timestampApprox": "3:06 p.m. EDT update on September 3, 2023",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/cleveland-state-university-police-investigating-robbery-euclid-avenue-east-22nd-street/95-3bd745d3-5c29-49bf-b014-5ab4e076a899",
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from WKYC reporting on the CSU Alert update; official archive 403-blocks automated fetch",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "Cleveland State University's campus is integrated into downtown Cleveland along the Euclid Avenue corridor, where the [CSU Alert](https://www.csuohio.edu/welcome-vikes/campus-safety) system issues timely warnings for crimes that threaten the community. This September 3, 2023 robbery at [East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue](https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/cleveland-state-university-police-investigating-robbery-euclid-avenue-east-22nd-street/95-3bd745d3-5c29-49bf-b014-5ab4e076a899) was one of several incidents that fed student debate over campus safety messaging, captured in commentary like the [Cleveland Stater's coverage of CSU safety concerns](https://clevelandstater.com/news/opinion/opinion-safety-last-ignorance-first-csu-motto). The downtown setting means CSU's Clery geography is essentially a network of public city streets, which is why a daytime robbery at a major intersection generated a two-message alert sequence with a suspect direction of flight.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Robbery being investigated by Cleveland State University Police - WKYC",
      "url": "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/crime/cleveland-state-university-police-investigating-robbery-euclid-avenue-east-22nd-street/95-3bd745d3-5c29-49bf-b014-5ab4e076a899",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Campus Safety - Cleveland State University",
      "url": "https://www.csuohio.edu/welcome-vikes/campus-safety",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Opinion: Safety last, ignorance first - Cleveland Stater",
      "url": "https://clevelandstater.com/news/opinion/opinion-safety-last-ignorance-first-csu-motto",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "CSU Police resolve robbery at E. 22nd St. and Euclid Avenue - The Cauldron",
      "url": "https://csu-cauldron.com/2023/09/03/csu-police-resolve-robbery-at-e-22nd-st-and-euclid-avenue/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "robbery",
    "timely-warning",
    "ohio",
    "cleveland",
    "downtown",
    "off-campus",
    "csu-alert"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-28",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-06-10",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}