Campus Safety has reported two separate instances of aggravated robbery victimizing DU students in the past week.

According to a report sent out by DU Campus Safety, the first robbery was attempted at 2 a.m. last Thursday morning on the corner of High Street and Asbury Avenue.

The suspect, according to the report, approached a male DU student and stated that he had a gun and asked for the student’s wallet.

The student stated in the report that he could not see the suspect’s weapon.

The suspect is a white male around six feet tall. He fled southbound on High Street.

This crime has a strong correlation to the second of the two robberies, which occurred Saturday at 10 p.m. at Wells Fargo Bank on the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Buchtel Boulevard.

When a female DU student finished extracting money from the bank’s ATM, she was confronted by a man holding a hand gun.

“[The suspect] walked up to her after she got in line,” said Tyrone Mills, the associate director of community affairs and public information for DU Campus Safety. “He said, ‘I’ll take that,’ displayed a hand gun, and she gave it to him.”

The similarities between the two crimes become more apparent when dealing with the two suspects.

The suspect in the Wells Fargo robbery nearly fits the identical description of the High St. and Asbury Avenue robbery.

The robber in the Wells Fargo incident was also a white male thought to be around 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to Mills.

Early worries around the DU campus were that these incidents were similar to robberies that took place in Lower Downtown over a week ago, in which students from an out of town university were robbed and shot.

According to Mills, there really are no strong similarities between the downtown and DU area cases.

“There is really not any similarities in the two cases. They were not the same,” said Mills. “The only similarity that can be is that a robbery occurred of student age individuals.

But in the case of the downtown robberies, not only did the robbery occur but the [victims were] actually shot.”

Not only were the crimes different, but so were the descriptions of the suspects.

“The suspects in both of [the downtown] cases were both black males. And these two [DU area crimes] were both white males,” said Mills.

Despite the recent attacks on DU students, Mills stressed that students should not be overly worried about their safety.

“Though [the robberies] have all been within our campus area, none were actually on campus. I want to make that distinction,” said Mills. “However, I feel that that is enough for the students to be alert, in that this is happening around our campus area.”

Mills did say that Campus Safety believes that the two DU victims acted correctly when faced with danger.

“The students did exactly what they should have done,” said Mills. “If someone says that they have a gun or even if you think that they have a gun, give them what they are asking. Your life means more than the property.”

Campus Safety has handed the two cases over to the Denver Police Department, which has not made any progress in their investigation.