BALTIMORE — A man has been arrested in connection with the attempted rape of a student on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.
On Tuesday, Raymond Willis Lunn, 31, was arrested by Baltimore County Police in the 8100 block of Harford Road.
He's facing charges of assault and attempted rape.
Police say Lunn is a repeat violent offender who has served multiple prison sentences and has an "extensive criminal history."
Some of his prior convictions include attempted rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, assault and more.
He's also a registered sex offender, police say.
This all stems from an incident Saturday night in the 3100 block of Wyman Park Drive, on the Decker Quad of the Homewood campus.
An unidentified man, later identified as Lunn, approached a student, asking for directions.
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Following the encounter, as the student began walking away, police say the man threw the woman to the ground and attempted to remove her clothes.
People in the area scared the man off preventing further harm.
Some students like Aneesh Swaminathan say one arrest is not enough to address safety issues on and around campus.
"I shouldn't, and no student should be getting constant messages on their email on text saying 'There's an assault this morning, there's a robbery the next night, someone got assaulted.' This is a weekly, daily occurrence for us students and it's just something that should not be happening at a top ten university," he said.
He told WMAR 2 News what would make him feel safer.
"I think we should have at least more visible police officers on campus. That would give at least a sense of safety for some students that there are more patrolling police officers, JHPD presence, last at night especially."
Eric Wang, another Hopkins student, agrees.
"With the cops you always see their cars around but you never really see them, the police officers themselves outside of like special events," Wang said.
But not all students feel unsafe.
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"When I'm directly on campus I've never felt unsafe. I've never seen any activity that made my ears perk up," Brianna Swartz said.
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels released a statement in response to the arrest saying,
“We are deeply distressed that an attack like this would happen on our campus. The safety of our community is a paramount commitment. We are deeply grateful to Commissioner Worley and the entire Baltimore City Police Department for their swift and fulsome response. We appreciate and value the collaborative partnership that BPD and the Johns Hopkins Police Department have forged with one another and the way in which it brought this investigation to a quick conclusion. I am profoundly grateful to Dr. Branville Bard and the entire Johns Hopkins Public Safety organization for their investigative work and commitment to keeping our community safe, and to our Student Affairs team for their round-the-clock efforts to provide support in this difficult moment.”
Investigators are looking at other sexual assaults in the area to see if any of them are connected to Lunn.
Authorities ask any additional victims to contact their sex crimes unit at 410-396-2076.