Griffin said the student was approached by a man armed with a gun who stole his cellphone at around 6:15 a.m. The suspect then fled the area north on 18th Street. The student wasn’t injured in the robbery, according to Griffin.<\/p>\n
The other two robberies<\/a> happened early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n Griffin said a Temple student was walking off campus on the 1500 block of Oxford Street when two men armed with a handgun stole their cellphone at about 1:30 a.m. One of the suspects fired a shot into the air when leaving the scene, but nobody was struck by the gunfire, according to Griffin.<\/p>\n The same two suspects<\/a> in that robbery were involved in another robbery on the 1300 block of Carlisle Street that happened minutes before the one on the 1500 block of Oxford Street, Griffin said.<\/p>\n In that robbery, Griffin said a phone was taken from a person not affiliated with Temple.<\/p>\n Police believe the two suspects were involved in two robberies near Temple University’s campus.<\/p>\n Temple University Police Department<\/p>\n Temple’s Police Department released images of the suspects wanted in connection with Thursday’s robberies.\u00a0<\/p>\n Griffin said that the Temple and Philadelphia Police Departments will increase their presence in the area where the robberies happened. So far, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n Griffin also encouraged members of the Temple community to use the university’s safety resources like the\u00a0walking escort program<\/a>, the\u00a0Flight shuttle service<\/a>\u00a0and other resources in the\u00a0TUSafe app<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n![\"templerobberies.jpg](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/templerobberies.jpg#.jpeg\")
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