Student raped, shot after being abducted

Woman OK after attack near campus A College of General Studies student was carjacked, robbed, raped and shot in the face after she left class and headed to her car at about 9:50 p.m. Wednesday, University Police Commissioner John Kuprevich said yesterday. The 25-year-old woman, who is also a Wistar Institute employee, was not seriously injured because the bullet grazed her cheek. She was treated at Jefferson Hospital and released, police said. The assailant – described as 25 years old, 5-foot-8 and wearing a blue-green sweatsuit and a flannel vest – was last seen driving the victim's 1985 red Honda Accord near Broad Street and Girard Avenue last night. The incident began while the woman was walking to her car in the public parking lot at 34th and Chestnut streets near Hill Field and across the street from the Law School. The assailant forced her into the backseat of her car at gunpoint and robbed her of $7, Philadelphia police spokesperson Ben Frazier said. After abducting her, the man drove to an unknown location, Frazier said. He made her disrobe, then made her dress again before taking her to another location, he said. "He made her undress again. He tied her hands, and gagged her," Frazier said. "Then she was taken to an abandoned residence?and inside he violated her with his finger. Then he shot her in the face." The student was fortunate, Frazier said, because the bullet grazed her cheek. "It was like a very deep laceration all across her cheek," Kuprevich said. The student played dead, waiting for the man to leave. After the assailant fled in the victim's car, she then went out to the street – believed to be in North Philadelphia – and asked someone to contact police, Kuprevich said. The woman was then taken to Jefferson Hospital, where she was in stable condition, according to Frazier. The student was released after being treated, Kuprevich said. He said the lot is not University owned, and is often unattended.