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TIMELY WARNING - ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION: Vol State Cookeville Campus Police are reporting an attempted abduction of a female student that occurred this evening between 8:50 PM and 9:00 PM on the Cookeville campus. The student was approached by a white male in his 40s who followed her and asked her to accompany him to a party. When she refused, the man attempted to grab her. The student was not injured and the suspect fled into the wooded area near the third tier of the campus parking lot. Suspect is described as a white male, approximately 40s, average build. If you have information, contact the Cookeville campus at (931) 520-4616 or the Gallatin campus at (615) 230-3595. If you see a suspicious individual, call 911 immediately. Be aware of your surroundings at all times.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed; the campus police solicited information via both the Cookeville satellite campus number and the Gallatin main campus dispatch number, reflecting Vol State's multi-site structure
The suspect fled into a wooded buffer zone adjacent to the third-tier parking level -- a known low-visibility area at evening hours on commuter campuses, representing a campus security design vulnerability
Vol State's Cookeville Center is a satellite campus of Volunteer State Community College, whose main campus is in Gallatin, Sumner County; Cookeville is in Putnam County, Central Time (CDT in September)