Lafayette Online

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University student was beaten and robbed outside Tarkington Hall around midnight Saturday (Dec. 19). According to Purdue police, a man approached the student and asked to use his cell phone. After the man had the cell phone, he struck the victim before fleeing the area in a black SUV […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are investigating a sexual assault and an unrelated battery that occurred early Saturday (Sept. 19). The sexual assault took place around 1:17 a.m. Saturday (Sept. 19) in the 200 block of University Street. Purdue Police Chief John Cox said a woman reported that she was posing for a […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police arrested a West Lafayette man early Tuesday (Sept. 1) after he allegedly injured an 11-month-old girl in the Purdue Village Apartment Complex hours earlier. Eric M. Ellis, 19, was charged with battery resulting in bodily injury to a person younger than 14 years old and neglect of a […]

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Detectives are investigating an altercation that resulted in one person being treated at Home Hospital. The Sheriff’s Office received a report of the injury at 12:30 a.m. after the victim, twenty-five year old Adam Jones, went to the Hospital to be treated for a stab wound to the chest. […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — West Lafayette Police Department is seeking a man who reportedly cut a woman on the leg at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday (April 25) on South Salisbury Street in West Lafayette. The suspect was described as a black male who was wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. Anyone with information about […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue police on Monday (March 30) arrested a man on suspicion of beating a female university student on Sunday (March 29) at Hilltop Apartments. Minwoo Oh, 25, of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, was arrested on preliminary charges of strangulation, battery causing serious bodily injury and confinement while armed. He was taken to […]