Two SMU students were robbed at gunpoint at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday in front of a residence in the 3400 block of McFarlin Boulevard, just west of Hillcrest Avenue.
Sources say the two women were waiting for two other students who had gone inside to change before the four went out to meet friends. While waiting, an unidentified man pulled the passenger out of the car and forced her to the pavement, holding a semi-automatic handgun to her head. He then ordered the driver out of the car and demanded her purse and keys before driving away in the red four-door 2001 BMW.
The students, neither of whom were harmed in the incident, described the robber as a Hispanic male aged early 20s, about 5- feet-7-inches tall, weighing 145 to 160 pounds. He wore a white T-shirt and blue jeans and had back curly hair.
Capt. Mike Snellgrove of the SMU Police Department said the university police are not involved except that the victims were SMU students and that the incident happened close to campus. The University Park Police could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Reports of a black Ford F-150 stolen from a student off-campus last night could not be confirmed at press time. The carjackings are the latest in a string of violent robberies occuring on and near campus.
On Oct. 11, two Meadows students were held up at gunpoint as they were walking along Binkley Avenue by Moody Coliseum. The robbers, described as two slender black men in their 20s dressed in dark clothes, approached them from behind. One pressed what felt like a gun into the back of one victim while the other robber, holding a semi-automatic handgun, demanded their credit cards, money, purse and student ID cards.
Six days later, two paint contractors were robbed while working outside the La Madeleine at Airline Road and Mockingbird Lane. The workmen said two Hispanic males in their early 20s drove up in a gray Mitsubishi Montero and demanded their money. The driver remained in the car while the passenger stepped outside and pointed a rifle or shotgun at them.
Neither incident has been linked with last night’s robberies. Anyone with information is asked to call the University Park Police Department at (214) 363-3000 or the SMU Police Department at (214) 768-3388.
