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A Stalker Trails Students From the Library to the Bus Stop, and a Community College Warns Back

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El Camino College in Torrance, California, released a safety advisory on October 15, 2024 after a man stalked a female student of Japanese descent from the Schauerman Library to a bus stop at Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards on October 10 and 11. The El Camino College Police Department described the individual as a male in his late twenties with dark hair and eyes and said it was investigating two incidents involving an ECC student stalking female students of Japanese descent.

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El Camino College
Community College · CA
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Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

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Safety Advisory: The El Camino College Police Department is investigating a stalking incident in which an individual followed a student from the Schauerman Library to the bus stop at Crenshaw Boulevard and Redondo Beach Boulevard on October 10 and 11. The individual is described as a male in his late twenties with dark-colored hair and dark-colored eyes. Anyone with information is asked to contact the El Camino College Police Department.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed from the El Camino College Union's reporting on the October 15, 2024 safety advisory; the library-to-bus-stop route, the October 10-11 dates, and the late-twenties / dark hair and eyes description are quoted from that coverage.
Marked isVerbatimConfirmed: false because the verbatim advisory text was not captured; the facts are drawn from the student newspaper's account of the official advisory.
The advisory is a community-college example of a Clery-style stalking warning — a population of commuters whose risk geography extends to transit stops just off campus.
Context

Background

El Camino College is a large public community college in Torrance, California, serving a heavily commuter student body. In October 2024 the El Camino College Police Department investigated incidents in which a male ECC student stalked female students of Japanese descent. In one incident, a man followed a student from the Schauerman Library to a bus stop at the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and Redondo Beach Boulevard on October 10 and 11; the college released a safety advisory on October 15 describing him as a male in his late twenties with dark hair and eyes. The episode came amid a documented rise in stalking reports across El Camino College in 2024. Under the college's Clery procedures, police said they would issue a Nixle alert or timely warning when an emergency presented an ongoing threat. The case fills two archive gaps at once — stalking and the community-college institution type — and highlights how commuter-campus risk extends to adjacent transit infrastructure.
Analysis

Key Findings

El Camino College released a safety advisory on October 15, 2024 after a man stalked a student from the Schauerman Library to a nearby bus stop on October 10 and 11
The suspect was described as a male in his late twenties with dark-colored hair and eyes; police were investigating two related incidents
The targeted students were of Japanese descent, and the stalking extended off campus to a transit stop at Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards
The incident came amid a documented 2024 rise in stalking reports across the college
Fills both the stalking and community-college gaps, showing commuter-campus risk reaching adjacent transit infrastructure
Outcome
The El Camino College Police Department opened an investigation into two stalking incidents and issued a safety advisory with a suspect description. Stalking was among a documented rise in such reports on the campus in 2024.
Provenance

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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion