Students affected by crime in area

Livingston High School '92 Livingston, N.J. Several students were victims of violent crimes over the course of the last academic year in and around the University community. Last October, a College of General Studies student was carjacked, robbed, sexually assaulted and shot in the face after she left class and headed to her car parked in a public lot near Hill Field at about 9:50 p.m. The student survived the shooting because the bullet only grazed her cheek. University Police said the woman played dead until the man fled. She was treated at Jefferson Hospital and released later that day. Robert Wenger was stabbed by Ramez Qureshi, a recent graduate with a degree in English, after Wenger suggested Qureshi enter a psychiatric hospital. Following December break, a male student was shot in the shoulder and robbed at gunpoint by four males at 11:33 p.m. near 42nd and Osage streets. Philadelphia Police officers arrested three of the four assailants and the student allegedly found a gun at the crime scene, according to Philadelphia Police. Just before Valentine's Day, two graduate students, second-year Law students Dave Shields and Dan Cohen, came to the rescue of a woman who was almost kidnapped by a man trying to car-jack her black Acura Legend. The students were walking near Kings Court/English House when they said they saw a man jump into a running car, according to University Police. They said the passenger started to scream and tried to escape but the man was pulling her back in. The two said they got into a "tug-of-war" over the woman and managed to pull her from the vehicle. The man fled in the car, but the car has since been recovered and suspects have been arrested. In the same month, police were involved in an intense stakeout near 41st and Baltimore streets. After four men allegedly robbed a delicatessen, two suspects went to the roof of a 41st Street house and fired shots at plain-clothes police officers shattering the window of an unmarked police car, police said. At 10:20 p.m., stake-out officers in body armor carrying rifles arrested the two men.