Grad Student Robbed on Brattle Street Tuesday Night

A Harvard graduate student was the victim of an unarmed robbery at the intersection of Brattle Street and Church Street Tuesday night, according to local police reports.

The graduate student, who lives on Plympton Street, told police that he was approached at around 9:30 p.m. near the Cambridge Center for Adult Education by two black males. They “smacked his cell phone out of his hand, pushed him to the ground, took his phone, and fled,” according to the Cambridge Police Department log and an e-mail from its spokesman, Daniel M. Riviello.

The victim injured his wrist when he fell to the ground. The Professional Ambulance Service evaluated him before transporting him to a hospital for further assessment, Riviello wrote in the e-mail.

The suspects were still at large as of yesterday, but the CPD is currently investigating the case, Riviello added.

This incident is the first robbery recorded on the Cambridge and Harvard University police logs in December on or near Harvard’s campus.

The incident marks the tenth robbery in the area and the fifth known incident that has involved Harvard affiliates since Nov. 1, when two Harvard affiliates were robbed separately near the Divinity School.

The last robbery near Harvard took place on Nov. 21, when a Harvard undergraduate male student was robbed by an unarmed male near the Quad.

Of the 10 robberies since November, six were committed by armed assailants.

The robberies have been scattered across Cambridge in locations near the Quad, the Divinity School, the Dudley Co-op, the Yard, and the Harvard Square T stop.

—Staff writer Sirui Li can be reached at sli@college.harvard.edu.