A 59-year old man reportedly walked into High Rise early Tuesday morning, stole a wallet from a student’s dorm room and was apprehended by Metro Police.
The man, identified as Alexander Baxter, is not a student, Metro Police said. University spokesperson Kim Chaudoin issued the following statement to Lumination Network via email.
“The safety and security of our students is a top priority. As such, we have a number of measures in place to try to make the campus as safe as possible. In this instance those measures helped us quickly respond to the situation, alert the Metro Nashville Police Department and to apprehend the suspect without physical harm to any student. In addition to the safety measures the university has in place, it is also important for students to remember to practice good personal safety and awareness by locking their dorm room doors and not propping open outside doors leading into the dorm.”
This story is developing.
This story has been updated to add Chaudoin’s comment.