A 23-year-old Columbia College student was stabbed Wednesday night after encountering a robber at Grant Park, police said.
She was walking east at 9:50 p.m. on the first block of East Ida B. Wells Drive when a man snuck up on her from behind and demanded money, according to Chicago police and a Columbia College crime alert.
She said she wasn’t carrying cash and gave him her debit card instead, authorities said. The robber took the card and stabbed her before running toward the lake.
The 23-year-old stumbled into a dorm in the 500 block of South State to seek help, authorities said. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with three puncture wounds to the lower abdomen.
Columbia College’s alert said she is expected to survive her injuries from the stabbing, which took place next to the school’s Loop campus.
No one has been arrested, police said. The suspect was described as a heavyset, 6-foot black man, between 25 and 30 years of age, with short hair and wearing a green puffy jacket and blue jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call Area Central detectives at (312) 747-8380.
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