{
  "id": "2025-10-12-university-of-pennsylvania-4000-walnut-robbery-no-weapon",
  "slug": "university-of-pennsylvania-4000-walnut-robbery-no-weapon-2025-10-12",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Pennsylvania",
    "shortName": "Penn",
    "state": "PA",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UPennAlert",
    "enrollment": 28000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-10-12",
    "type": "robbery",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Robbery without a weapon on the 4000 block of Walnut",
    "headlinePublic": "Robbery without a weapon on the 4000 block of Walnut",
    "summary": "Penn [UPennAlert reported a robbery without a weapon on the 4000 block of Walnut Street](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/upa-archive/robbery-without-weapon-8/) and told people to use caution and avoid the area.",
    "outcome": "Archive page includes investigation prose that was not captured as an SMS product. No labeled all-clear SMS on the page."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-10-12T20:42:00-04:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "UPennAlert: Robbery without weapon at 4000 block of Walnut Street. Use caution, police on scene, avoid the area.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/upa-archive/robbery-without-weapon-8/",
      "sourceDescription": "UPennAlert archive: robbery without weapon, 4000 Walnut",
      "annotations": [
        "Official UPennAlert archive 2026-09-21. Dual-fetch open_page + r.jina.ai. sha256 a9c53593edb317831b6aa9705a0aba3903b4a825d0a068aa6cbc6c1456e81a07. Labeled UPennAlert SMS only; investigation prose above the SMS block is not a transmitted product.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-11-11-university-of-pennsylvania-4000-walnut-gunshots: different date and robbery without a weapon vs gunshots.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-06-14-university-of-pennsylvania-4000-baltimore-robbery-no-weapon: different date and Walnut vs Baltimore."
      ],
      "characterCount": 112
    }
  ],
  "context": "Penn posts UPennAlert products on the [upa-archive](https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/upa-archive/robbery-without-weapon-8/). Date of Alert: October 12, 2025 8:42 pm.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official SMS names a robbery without a weapon at the 4000 block of Walnut Street."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "UPennAlert archive: robbery without weapon, 4000 Walnut",
      "url": "https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/upa-archive/robbery-without-weapon-8/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-09-21",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN not attempted after 500 flap"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "private-r1",
    "pennsylvania",
    "penn",
    "upennalert",
    "ivy",
    "robbery"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-09-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}