University pleads for police protection in wake of fatal shootings, assault around campus
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An assault and two fatal shootings on and near The Catholic University of America's campus have left students and community members on edge ahead of the new school year.
"I don’t feel safe," MBA student Berke Akgul, who has been a student at CUA for 11 months, told WUSA9. "Sometimes I feel like should I change locations or should I go back to Turkey. I mean, education is important, but I'm alone here." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
All three incidents appear to have stemmed from or around the Brookland-CUA Metro station near the university's urban campus in D.C.'s northeast quadrant. The coronavirus pandemic hit D.C.'s public transportation system hard, and it has struggled to fully recover in the years since.