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Report: Slain Utah athlete repeatedly called school, Salt Lake City police about harasser
Lauren McCluskey, the 21-year-old Utah track athlete who was abducted outside her Salt Lake City dorm and killed in October, had called both University of Utah police and Salt Lake City police multiple times to report her attackers harassment before her death, according to 911 calls obtained by CNN.
McCluskey was found dead in a parked car on campus on October 23 shortly after she had an argument outside of her residence hall with 37-year-old Melvin Rowland. McCluskey and Rowland had met in a bar in September and dated for about a month, per the report, before McCluskey learned that he was a convicted sex offender and had lied about his age and name. Rowland spent more than a decade in prison, was released on parole three times, and violated his parole and returned to prison twice. He killed himself hours after McCluskeys death following a police chase.
McCluskey ended the relationship on October 9, blocked all communication from him and his friends, and even had university police accompany her to retrieve her car, which she had let him borrow. Rowland, though, wouldnt leave her alone.
Over the next two weeks, according to CNN, McCluskey called University of Utah police multiple to report the harassment and an attempted extortion. She told police that she sent him $1,000 in hopes of keeping compromising photos of her private.
Lauren McCluskey, the 21-year-old Utah track athlete who was abducted outside her Salt Lake City dorm and killed in October, had called both University of Utah police and Salt Lake City police multiple times to report her attackers harassment before her death, according to 911 calls obtained by CNN.
McCluskey was found dead in a parked car on campus on October 23 shortly after she had an argument outside of her residence hall with 37-year-old Melvin Rowland. McCluskey and Rowland had met in a bar in September and dated for about a month, per the report, before McCluskey learned that he was a convicted sex offender and had lied about his age and name. Rowland spent more than a decade in prison, was released on parole three times, and violated his parole and returned to prison twice. He killed himself hours after McCluskeys death following a police chase.
McCluskey ended the relationship on October 9, blocked all communication from him and his friends, and even had university police accompany her to retrieve her car, which she had let him borrow. Rowland, though, wouldnt leave her alone.
Over the next two weeks, according to CNN, McCluskey called University of Utah police multiple to report the harassment and an attempted extortion. She told police that she sent him $1,000 in hopes of keeping compromising photos of her private.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-slain-utah-track-athlete-lauren-mccluskey-repeatedly-called-university-salt-lake-city-police-report-harasser-225701857.html
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Report: Slain Utah athlete repeatedly called school, Salt Lake City police about harasser (Original Post)
sarisataka
Dec 2018
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(16,887 posts)1. This is a death that should have and could have been prevented....
Sadly, too few University Campuses or their police forces are taking threats and harassment and safety of their students seriously....The University of Utah and their campus police should have been actively working with the Salt Lake City Police Dept (especially given Rowland's convicted and registered sex offender status and arrested him and watching him and building a case against him - and certainly providing her protection.
Horrible....
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)2. Just goes to show, that the police departments did not do their job. Either of them....So what
is the penalty for total incompetence?...Let's say everything was exactly the same, except for one detail. That the lady who was harassed happened to be the police chief's daughter..............................................
.......Now, do you suppose this would have ended like this?....