UC Davis police investigate armed carjacking, two other weapons incidents on campus
Detectives at the University of California, Davis were investigating a carjacking, in which a student was held at gunpoint, along with two other incidents involving weapons on campus over the past week.
The carjacking occurred about 7 p.m. Sunday on Extension Center Drive. The student had just returned to the parked car, a 2018 gray Dodge Challenger, when a suspect pounded on the window, pointed a handgun and demanded the student get out of the vehicle, according to a UC Davis news release.
The suspect drove away in the student’s car, which was followed by a white sedan. Both cars were last seen heading west on Hutchison Drive toward Highway 113.
The UC Davis Police Department described the carjacking suspect as a man in his 20s wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and a surgical mask. The department did not have a description for the white sedan’s driver.
The two other campus incidents involving weapons occurred on the same night last week about 30 minutes apart. There was no indication the two incidents were related.
About 8:20 p.m. March 8, the victims were driving east on Hutchison Drive, near UC Davis West Village, when they pulled up behind a silver Nissan Sentra stopped in the road before the traffic circle at Hutchison Place, according to the news release.
The victims told police they honked the car horn at the stopped car and a man got out, pointed a handgun and cursed at them. The armed suspect then drove away toward Highway 113. Police described the suspect as a man in his 40s wearing an unbuttoned baseball jersey.
About 8:50 p.m March 8, a silver SUV passed a bicyclist on Hutchison Drive near Extension Center Drive. A person in the front passenger seat fired a BB gun several times at the bicyclist, according to the news release.
The bicyclist was struck in the leg but did not require medical attention. Police detectives were seeking two suspects in that incident but have no descriptions.
UC Davis officials asked anyone with information about these three incidents to call campus police at 530-752-1727.
This story was originally published March 15, 2022 at 1:16 PM.
