Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Robert McCarrie Chabot College Parking Lot B is one of many lots where students are vulnerable to street crime.

The second worst crime in Chabot College's 46 years existence occurred on Chabot's campus early Monday Sept. 24. A Chabot College student was held at gunpoint and forcefully ordered to give up his keys and wallet as he was leaving his 1995 Lexus SC400 license plate number 5VER312 in Parking Lot G for his 9 a.m. class.

The male victim arrived to school early Monday morning and was in his car before class when he first noticed two black men in his rearview mirror. The two men were walking around cars in the parking lot and looking at his car. The victim thought nothing of it because he was used to people looking at his car because it was "fixed up" and fitted with 22-inch chrome rims.

Around 8:45 a.m., the student turned off his car and began to leave for class when he saw the two men he had noticed earlier approaching him. One of the assailants pointed a semi-automatic handgun to the victim's head and demanded that the victim give up his keys. The victim reported later to his instructor that one of the assailants also put the gun into his ribs and removed his wallet. The suspects then jumped into the car and took off.

The victim was not physically harmed. He immediately notified the Hayward Police Department and left for class.

Neither the car nor the suspects have been found. The first suspect was described as a black male adult with light complexion in his early 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches and 150 pounds, with shoulder length dreadlocks with blonde tips. The second suspect is of darker complexion 18-20 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, thin, with black ear-length dreadlocks.

Chabot's assigned Hayward officer, Sergeant MacGreagor was not on campus that Monday morning nor was his supervisor, Melinda Matsuda.

Vice President for Academic Services, Ron Taylor, had not learned of the carjacking until the late afternoon on Monday, and Chabot President Robert Carlson was ill and not on campus that day.

The Campus Security Department at Chabot did not send out a Safety Bulletin on the campuswide e-mail network until almost 22 hours after becoming aware of the carjacking. The Safety Bulletin was also not flagged as emergency information on Tuesday, so many faculty and staff said they did not read it.

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