The public is requested to help identify two men in connection with an armed robbery this morning in a parking lot at 39th and Springfield streets, according to the University of Kansas Police Department.
The KU police at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said in a statement that it is believed that two men with a handgun robbed two women. The separate incidents occurred in the parking lot at 39th and Springfield between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. June 14, according to KU police.
The men are believed to have stopped first at a convenience store in the area, according to KU police. KU police have released photos from the convenience store and asked the public to identify the persons of interest in them.
The two women were shaken, but unharmed, the police spokesman said. One of the women was a hospital employee and the other a medical student.
They described their assailants as young men wearing gray and black hoodies and dark pants, according to the police spokesman.
The KU police spokesman also said that the KU public safety department makes frequent trips to the parking lots through patrols and escorts.
KU police stated that there was a separate and probably unrelated holdup at 6 a.m. June 14. In that incident, a 14-16-year-old male used a box cutter to rob someone east of the Cambridge hospital parking garage on State Line Road, the police spokesman said. There were no injuries in that incident.
Anyone with information about the incidents may call the KU police at 913-588-5030.
