Police are still searching for a man they say exposed and touched himself in front of a woman in a UCF garage Saturday afternoon.
UCF sent out an alert at 3:36 on Saturday telling students a man indecently exposed himself in Garage D on UCF’s main campus. New details released in the incident report and 911 call say the victim had to fight the man off, and the suspect committed a sex act in her presence, leaving evidence on her and her vehicle.
The woman, who is not a UCF student, told police she was walking to get something out of her friend’s car in Garage D when she felt someone behind her. When she turned around, she saw a man was standing behind her exposing and touching himself through the zipper of his jeans, the incident report said.
The woman yelled “get off me” and grabbed the man by the shirt to push him away, the report said. Police said evidence of the sex crime was found on the woman’s skin, clothes and her vehicle.
The man ran off and got into a blue or gray minivan. The man’s van was caught on surveillance footage while he was traveling along Gemini Boulevard. The suspect is described as a white man about 20 years old with dark brown hair, police said.
Spokeswoman for UCF Police Courtney Gilmartin said the UCF alert didn’t include these details because they were trying to get out the information as quickly as possible. She said the investigation is still ongoing and police are continuing to work with the victim, who wasn’t injured in the incident.
The victim talked to WKMG Local 6 and told them she thought she was going to be raped, and she was outraged when she found out UCF didn’t have cameras in the garage.
KnightNews.com has been following UCF student Ryan McKinney’s plea for more cameras in garages. He appeared in front of the Board of Trustees Thursday asking officials to put cameras in the garages after his car was vandalized during the first week of spring semester.
