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AlertSU – Hit-and-Run Investigated as Possible Hate Crime
This afternoon, the Stanford University Department of Public Safety responded to a hit-and-run traffic incident on campus in which a Stanford student of Arab Muslim heritage was struck by a vehicle. The incident occurred at approximately 2:00 p.m. at Campus Drive and Ayrshire Farm Lane.
The driver is reported to have made eye contact with the victim, accelerated and struck the victim, and then driven away while shouting an expletive directed at the victim. The victim, who was a pedestrian, is now receiving care for non-life-threatening injuries.
The victim describes the driver as a white male in his mid 20s, with short dirty-blond hair and a short beard, wearing a gray shirt and round framed eyeglasses. The vehicle is described as a black Toyota 4Runner, model year 2015 or newer, with an exposed tire mounted to the rear center and a Toyota logo in the center of the wheel, with a white California license plate with the letters M and J, with M possibly being the first letter and J in the middle.
The incident is being investigated as a potential hate crime by the California Highway Patrol. Anyone with information is asked to contact CHP at (650) 369-6261 or SUDPS at (650) 329-2413.
Resources are available through the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, the Markaz Resource Center, and Vaden Health Services.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Verbatim status downgraded 2026-05-07 — the alert text is a multi-source reconstruction; original AlertSU page was not directly accessible and the unified block has not been confirmed in any single source
The alert's 'F*** you and your people' was sanitized in the AlertSU as 'an expletive directed at the victim' — a discretionary choice consistent with Stanford's prior AlertSU language conventions
Naming the Markaz Resource Center alongside Vaden was consistent with Stanford's standard structure for hate-incident alerts targeting Muslim/Arab community members
The detailed vehicle description — 'black Toyota 4Runner, 2015 or newer, M and J license plate letters' — was unusual specificity for an AlertSU and reflected the victim's clear recall
CHP was named as lead investigator because the incident occurred on Campus Drive (a public road inside Stanford's footprint) — California's CHP has primary jurisdiction over campus roads at Stanford
The November 9 update transferred jurisdiction to the Santa Clara County Sheriff for the hate-crime investigation