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JHU
A Pre-Dawn Handgun Robbery at the Charles Village Subway
Under Investigation
At about 4:25 a.m. on Thursday, August 17, 2023, a commercial armed robbery occurred at a Subway on St. Paul Street near Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore. According to the JHU Homewood Campus Security Alert summary, a male suspect armed with a black handgun ordered the cashier to open the register and safe, took the money, and fled eastbound on E. 33rd Street with no injuries reported.
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Campus Security Alert: At approximately 4:25 a.m. on Thursday, August 17, 2023, a commercial armed robbery occurred at the Subway on St. Paul Street. A male suspect entered the store and approached the cashier while armed with a black handgun. The suspect demanded the cashier open the cash register and safe, removed money from the cash drawer, and was given money from the safe. The suspect departed and was last seen walking eastbound on E. 33rd Street. No injuries were reported.
St. Paul Street and the E. 33rd Street corridor frame the eastern edge of Hopkins' Homewood campus in Charles Village, a block where student-frequented businesses sit directly adjacent to university property.
Hopkins Public Safety files these as 'Campus Security Alerts' and posts campus-specific summaries; this is the Homewood (undergraduate) campus channel, distinct from the East Baltimore (medical) campus alert stream.
Context
Background
Johns Hopkins' Homewood campus is embedded in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood, where the JHU Public Safety Campus Security Alert system issues timely warnings for serious crimes in its Clery geography. The St. Paul Street and E. 33rd Street blocks saw a cluster of armed robberies in 2023, including this August 17 Subway robbery and earlier 2023 robberies of Hopkins affiliates on E. 33rd Street. The pattern of off-campus robberies near Homewood drew sustained local coverage, including incidents in which armed robbers forced a man into a car near Hopkins and made him withdraw cash from ATMs, illustrating the recurring neighborhood-crime threat that drives Hopkins' timely warnings.
Outcome
No injuries were reported. The suspect fled on foot eastbound on E. 33rd Street; the incident was reported to the Baltimore Police Department and Hopkins Public Safety.
Provenance
Sources
- OfficialHomewood Campus Summary - JHU Public Safetypublicsafety.jhu.edu
- OfficialCampus Security Alerts - JHU Public Safetypublicsafety.jhu.edu
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