A 29-year-old man was stabbed to death early Friday morning during a fight near 43rd and Pine streets, police said. And in a separate incident, a University employee was raped and robbed Monday afternoon in her home in the 4200 block of Osage Street, according to University Police. In the first incident, John Griffieth died after a second man, seen arguing with Griffieth just moments earlier, stabbed him several times in the upper body, Philadelphia homicide detectives said. Griffieth was not affiliated with the University. Police have made no arrests in the murder and do not have a definite motive, but detectives believe the assailant may be the 18-year-old male who was seen arguing with Griffieth. After the stabbing, Griffieth was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania by his girlfriend, police said. He was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m. The rape and robbery occurred at about noon Monday after an unknown man entered the University employee's residence through a propped door, police said. He escaped in a car belonging to a friend of the victim. The woman was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for treatment, according to Lieutenant Susan Holmes of University Police. Holmes said she did not know if the woman sustained any additional injuries during the attack. Philadelphia detectives and University Police are conducting an investigation. No one has been arrested in connection with the crimes. In another incident, an individual affiliated with the University was robbed of $43 at gunpoint Sunday evening in the 3300 block of Walnut Street, police said. Police stopped an individual moments later near College Hall, and identified him as the alleged perpetrator. Searching the area near the Music Building, police recovered a fully loaded 9 mm gun which they believe was used to commit the robbery. Early last Wednesday, at 7:15 a.m., a resident at the Zeta Psi fraternity house, located at 3337 Walnut Street, was startled to find an intruder who had gained entrance through an open first floor window, police said. After the intruder fled the house with a power drill in hand, the resident chased the intruder across Hill Field and onto the campus of Drexel University before giving up the chase, according to police. Later that morning, just after 10 o'clock, police stopped a man fitting the intruder's description near 33rd and Market streets, and found him in possession of a bike belonging to a resident of the fraternity house. The man was charged with the burglary. University Police reported at least eight other burglaries in the area last week, including the burglary of the Psychology Department office, at 3815 Walnut Street. Police said someone broke in during the night Wednesday and stole $600 from an unlocked desk drawer.
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