A man who has groped at least eight women on the Tempe campus since March groped another woman Sunday, ASU Police officials said.
An 18-year-old female student was on Palm Walk walking home from the Student Recreation Complex on the Tempe campus around 8 p.m. Sunday when the man rode his bicycle beside the woman and grabbed her breast, according to a police report.
The woman told police she was in front of the Engineering Center when a man on a bicycle tapped her on the shoulder, police reported.
When she turned around to see who the man was, he placed his hand under her shirt and grabbed her breast, according to a report.
An ASU Police officer discovered a man near Cady Fountain, west of the Memorial Union, matching the woman’s description of the suspect approximately 25 minutes after police responded to the scene, police reported
However, police reported the woman told police it was not the man who grabbed her.
ASU Police spokesman Cmdr. Jim Hardina said there might be as many as 10 incidents related to the same man.
Sunday’s incident is believed to be the third by the same man since the beginning of the fall semester, including sexual abuse against a 20-year-old female student on Aug. 31 and assaulting another 20-year-old female on Aug. 26, Hardina said.
Other incidents happened before the start of the fall semester, he said.
All incidents have taken place on malls or sidewalks on the Tempe campus between 9:30 and 10:45 a.m. or between 3 and 8 p.m., Hardina said.
The man is described as having dark skin, black hair, in his early 20s and sometimes wearing a backpack, he said.
His bicycle is a mountain bike with thin tires, Hardina said.
Anyone with any information about these incidents should call ASU Police at 480-965-3456.
Reach the reporter at mhendley@asu.edu
