{ "id": "2023-11-03-stanford-university-arab-muslim-hit-and-run", "slug": "stanford-university-arab-muslim-hit-and-run-2023-11-03", "institution": { "name": "Stanford University", "shortName": "Stanford", "state": "CA", "type": "private-r1", "alertSystemName": "AlertSU", "alertPlatform": "AtHoc", "enrollment": 17249 }, "incident": { "date": "2023-11-03", "type": "aggravated-assault", "cleryCategory": "timely-warning", "headline": "A driver strikes a pedestrian and flees while shouting a slur in a suspected hate crime", "headlinePublic": "A driver strikes a pedestrian and flees while shouting a slur in a suspected hate crime", "summary": "On the afternoon of November 3, 2023, [a Stanford University student of Arab Muslim heritage was struck by a black Toyota 4Runner](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/04/us/stanford-university-hate-crime-investigations/index.html) at Campus Drive and Ayrshire Farm Lane. The driver [made eye contact, accelerated, and shouted 'F*** you and your people'](https://stanforddaily.com/2023/11/04/hit-and-run-injures-arab-muslim-student-incident-under-investigation-as-hate-crime/) before fleeing. Stanford's [Department of Public Safety issued an AlertSU community alert](https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1402) that evening, and the [Santa Clara County Sheriff later took over the hate-crime investigation](https://emergency.stanford.edu/2023/11/09/sheriffs-office-update-on-hit-and-run/).", "outcome": "The victim, identified as Stanford co-term student Abdulwahab Omira, sustained non-life-threatening injuries — bruising and abrasions — and was treated and released. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office took over the investigation from California Highway Patrol on November 9, 2023, classifying it as a hate crime. A composite sketch of the suspect was released; the suspect remained at large as of 2025.", "resolution": "under-investigation", "casualties": { "killed": 0, "injured": 1 } }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestamp": "2023-11-03T22:29:00-07:00", "timestampApprox": "Friday, November 3, 2023, 10:29 p.m. PDT (AlertSU archive Posted time)", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "Community Advisory-Hit and Run Hate Crime\n\nJust before 2 p.m. today, a hit-and-run traffic incident at Campus Drive and Ayrshire Farm Lane, near Bowdoin Lane, was reported to police. The incident resulted in injuries to a pedestrian. Fortunately, the injuries to the victim are not life-threatening.\n\nThis incident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol, as all injury traffic incidents on campus are. Based on the circumstances reported by the victim, the CHP is investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.\n\nThe victim reported that the driver made eye contact with the victim, accelerated and struck the victim, and then drove away while shouting “f*** you people.” The victim is an Arab Muslim student at Stanford.\n\nThe suspect vehicle is described as a black SUV with a tire mounted on the back. Additional information about the suspect will be shared as it is available.\n\nWe encourage any witnesses to this incident to come forward and share with law enforcement any information they have. Please contact the CHP at 650-779-2700 or the Department of Public Safety at 650-329-2413.\n\nStanford is continuing to work to provide a safe and secure campus environment in the context of heightened tensions related to the events in Israel and Gaza. This includes additional security that has been deployed at key locations on campus. If you ever have a concern for your personal safety, please call 911 or 9-911 from a campus telephone.\n\nThis alert is being sent to you in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1401", "sourceDescription": "Stanford Department of Public Safety AlertSU archive (alertid=1401), Community Advisory-Hit and Run Hate Crime; body also mirrored at emergency-failover.stanford.edu Community Crime Alert page", "annotations": [ "Verbatim recovered 2026-07-17 from official SUDPS AlertSU archive alertid=1401 (ajax content); Posted Friday, November 3rd, 2023, 10:29 pm PDT", "Official title is 'Community Advisory-Hit and Run Hate Crime' (not a later multi-source reconstruction)", "CHP is named as lead because the injury collision occurred on Campus Drive (public roadway jurisdiction at Stanford)", "Quote is sanitized with asterisks as f*** in the official AlertSU; Nov 4 update (alertid=1402) expands the shouted phrase to 'f*** you and your people'", "Initial vehicle description is only 'black SUV with a tire mounted on the back'; full 4Runner/plate detail arrives in the Nov 4 update" ], "characterCount": 1533 }, { "sequence": 2, "type": "update", "timestamp": "2023-11-04T09:24:00-07:00", "timestampApprox": "Saturday, November 4, 2023, 9:24 a.m. PDT (AlertSU archive Posted time)", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "Additional information - Hit and Run, Hate Crime Investigation\n\nAdditional information is available about the suspect in the hit-and-run incident, being investigated as a hate crime, that was the subject of an AlertSU message Friday evening.\n\nThe victim, an Arab Muslim student, describes the driver of the vehicle as a white male in his mid 20s, with short dirty-blond hair and a short beard, wearing a gray shirt and round framed eyeglasses at the time of the incident. The driver is reported to have made eye contact with the victim, accelerated and struck the victim, and then driven away while shouting “f*** you and your people” out the lowered window of the vehicle.\n\nThe vehicle involved in the incident is described by the victim as a black Toyota 4Runner, model year 2015 or newer, with an exposed tire mounted to the rear center and a Toyota logo in the center of the wheel. The vehicle was described by the victim as having a white California license plate with the letters M and J, with M possibly being the first letter and J in the middle.\n\nThe California Highway Patrol is continuing to investigate this incident. Any witnesses are encouraged to come forward to share information. Please contact the CHP at 650-779-2700 or the Department of Public Safety at 650-329-2413.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1402", "sourceDescription": "Stanford Department of Public Safety AlertSU archive (alertid=1402), Additional information - Hit and Run, Hate Crime Investigation", "annotations": [ "Verbatim recovered 2026-07-17 from official SUDPS AlertSU archive alertid=1402; Posted Saturday, November 4th, 2023, 9:24 am PDT", "Adds suspect physical description (white male mid-20s, dirty-blond hair, short beard, gray shirt, round eyeglasses) and detailed vehicle description (black Toyota 4Runner 2015 or newer, M and J plate letters)", "Expands the shouted phrase from Friday's 'f*** you people' to 'f*** you and your people' out the lowered window", "Still names CHP as continuing lead investigator" ], "characterCount": 1287 }, { "sequence": 3, "type": "update", "timestamp": "2023-11-09T18:51:00-08:00", "timestampApprox": "Thursday, November 9, 2023, 6:51 p.m. PST (AlertSU archive Posted time)", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "Sheriff’s Office further information – Hit and Run\n\nThe Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has issued an update, including a suspect sketch, on the November 3 hit and run that occurred on the Stanford campus. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident as a hate crime.\n\nThe update is available at: https://countysheriff.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb406/files/news-releases/Stanford%20University%20-Hate%20Crime.pdf\n\nFurther updates and ongoing press releases from the Sheriff’s Office can be found here: https://countysheriff.sccgov.org/about-us/newsroom-press-releases", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1404", "sourceDescription": "Stanford Department of Public Safety AlertSU archive (alertid=1404), Sheriff's Office further information – Hit and Run; content also mirrored on Stanford Emergency Information", "annotations": [ "Verbatim recovered 2026-07-17 from official SUDPS AlertSU archive alertid=1404; Posted Thursday, November 9th, 2023, 6:51 pm PST", "Hands the hate-crime investigation narrative to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and links the official suspect-sketch PDF", "Does not restate vehicle/suspect physical descriptors; points community to the Sheriff's news release" ], "characterCount": 580 } ], "context": "[Stanford University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University), a private R1 research university with approximately 17,000 students, sits on a 8,180-acre campus in Santa Clara County, California, making jurisdictional questions over campus crimes particularly complex (Stanford has its own SUDPS, but California Highway Patrol patrols campus roads, and the Santa Clara County Sheriff has primary jurisdiction over the broader county). On November 3, 2023, less than a month after the October 7 Hamas attacks and amid heightened campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war, [Stanford co-term student Abdulwahab Omira was struck by a black Toyota 4Runner](https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/11/04/arab-muslim-student-at-stanford-injured-in-hit-and-run-which-is-being-probed-as-a-potential-hate-crime/) at the corner of Campus Drive and Ayrshire Farm Lane on Stanford's campus. [The driver made eye contact, accelerated, struck Omira, and shouted 'F*** you and your people' before fleeing](https://stanforddaily.com/2023/11/04/hit-and-run-injures-arab-muslim-student-incident-under-investigation-as-hate-crime/). Stanford issued an AlertSU community alert that evening. From a hospital bed, [Omira issued a public statement calling for 'love, compassion, and unity'](https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/05/us/stanford-student-hit-run-over/index.html). Six days later, the [Santa Clara County Sheriff took over the hate-crime investigation](https://emergency.stanford.edu/2023/11/09/sheriffs-office-update-on-hit-and-run/) from CHP. The case is significant because Stanford was simultaneously investigating multiple bias incidents (anti-Muslim, antisemitic, and anti-Israeli), and the AlertSU language was praised for naming the victim's Arab Muslim heritage explicitly rather than using neutral language.", "keyFindings": [ "AlertSU explicitly named the victim's 'Arab Muslim heritage', unusually direct identity language for an initial alert, often hedged or omitted at peer institutions", "Jurisdictional complexity is striking: CHP was lead initially (Campus Drive is a public road), Santa Clara County Sheriff took over for the hate-crime investigation 6 days later", "The detailed vehicle description (black Toyota 4Runner, M and J plate letters) arrived in the Nov 4 morning AlertSU update (alertid=1402), not the Nov 3 initial Community Advisory", "Stanford issued at least three AlertSU messages: Nov 3 Community Advisory (1401), Nov 4 suspect/vehicle update (1402), and Nov 9 Sheriff's Office handoff (1404)", "The case was part of a documented surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents on US campuses following October 7, 2023", "Despite a composite sketch and detailed vehicle information, the suspect remained at large as of 2025" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Community Crime Alert – Hit and Run, Potential Hate Crime — Stanford Emergency Information (failover mirror)", "url": "https://emergency-failover.stanford.edu/2023/11/03/community-crime-alert-hit-and-run-potential-hate-crime/", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Sheriff's Office further information – Hit and Run (AlertSU alertid=1404) — Stanford DPS", "url": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1404", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Additional information - Hit and Run, Hate Crime Investigation (AlertSU alertid=1402) — Stanford DPS", "url": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1402", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Community Advisory-Hit and Run Hate Crime (AlertSU alertid=1401) — Stanford DPS", "url": "https://police.stanford.edu/alertsu.html?alertid=1401", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Hit-and-run injures Arab Muslim student, incident under investigation as hate crime — Stanford Daily", "url": "https://stanforddaily.com/2023/11/04/hit-and-run-injures-arab-muslim-student-incident-under-investigation-as-hate-crime/", "type": "student-newspaper" }, { "title": "Arab Muslim student struck in hit-and-run as Stanford University investigates spate of hate crime incidents — CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/04/us/stanford-university-hate-crime-investigations/index.html", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "Sheriff's Office update on hit and run — Stanford Emergency Information", "url": "https://emergency.stanford.edu/2023/11/09/sheriffs-office-update-on-hit-and-run/", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Arab Muslim student at Stanford injured in hit-and-run, allegedly by pro-Israel student — Palo Alto Online", "url": "https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/11/04/arab-muslim-student-at-stanford-injured-in-hit-and-run-which-is-being-probed-as-a-potential-hate-crime/", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "Stanford University: Arab Muslim student struck in hit-and-run calls for love, compassion — CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/05/us/stanford-student-hit-run-over/index.html", "type": "local-media" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "hate-crime", "islamophobia", "anti-arab", "anti-muslim", "hit-and-run", "stanford-university", "california", "post-october-7", "alertsu", "timely-warning", "santa-clara-county", "markaz-resource-center" ], "dateAdded": "2026-05-03", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17", "addedBy": "ingestion" }