Parking lot violence, missing doll reported
- A parking lot brawl called attention of officers.
- A prop from the theater was stolen.
By Amanda Bittle, Editor
A violent exchange on campus and a missing theater prop kept Safety and Security officers busy recently.
On May 3, an unidentified party telephoned in a report of a possible fight in parking lot C, reported Safety and Security Officer Kevin Tipton.
When officers arrived at the scene, Jerry Thompson told them he had been confronted by two white males with baseball bats, according to the report. Thompson said one of the men struck his vehicle with a bat.
The man then got back into “a black Eclipse-style vehicle” according to Thompson. The suspects then left the campus, drove southbound on May Avenue and turned into a nearby neighborhood, according to the report. Thompson followed them.
The two men stopped at a house where the passenger retrieved a large sharp instrument and threatened Thompson with it, Tipton reported. Thompson then returned to campus. The suspects followed him, but left again when they saw him talking to Safety and Security officers. They went into the neighborhood north and east of Drexel Avenue, according to the report.
Safety and Security officers searched the area, but the suspects were not located.
Thompson, who is not a student at OCCC, was on campus to pick up his girlfriend, Tipton reported.
Officers noted no signs of damage to Thompson’s vehicle, according to the report.
In another incident, an inflatable life-size female doll, used as a prop in the OCCC production of “Lysistrata,” was reported missing on May 2 by Theater Professor Brent Noel, said Safety and Security Director Ike Sloas.
Noel said he thinks it’s a shame that someone felt the need to steal the $30 prop, which was never returned and had to be replaced for the show.
“Whoever stole [the doll],” Noel said, “I hope that every time they use it, they keep me in mind.”
Editor Amanda Bittle can be reached at SeniorWriter@occc.edu.
