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TIMELY WARNING — ARMED ROBBERY
Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 3:36 a.m., at 216 Crown Street.
A Yale student approached a gray Nissan Altima parked in the 200 block of Crown Street just after 3:30 a.m., looking for a ride back to campus. Once the student approached the vehicle, one of the occupants brandished a firearm and demanded the student's wallet. The student complied, and the occupants of the vehicle fled the scene.
The student was not injured.
Vehicle: Gray Nissan Altima.
The Yale Police Department is investigating this incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact Yale Police at 203-432-4400. Anonymous tips may be submitted through the LiveSafe app.
This Timely Warning Notice is being issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.
The Yale Police Department reminds the community to be aware of your surroundings, travel in groups when possible, and avoid approaching unfamiliar vehicles, particularly in the early morning hours.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Reconstructed in close paraphrase from NBC Connecticut reporting on March 25, 2024 that quoted YPD on the exact circumstances of the incident — including the student approaching the vehicle for a ride, the 3:36 AM time, and the gray Nissan Altima description
216 Crown Street sits at the southeast edge of Yale's central campus near the Crown Street nightlife strip — Clery 'public property' geography that makes a downtown New Haven robbery reportable
The student was approaching the car presumably mistaking it for a rideshare — a recurring pattern in college-town robberies where suspects pose as Uber/Lyft drivers in dense bar districts
Yale Daily News data analysis (November 2024) found 50% of all Yale timely warnings in the studied period were robberies, with armed robbery alone at 34% — making this March 24 alert representative of Yale's dominant timely-warning category