Crime & Safety
Dressed as Mime, Woman Attacks, Beats UGA Co-Ed on Broad Street
A UGA student headed to campus was attacked by a woman in mime garb and makeup.
About 11 a.m. on Thursday, a campus-bound University of Georgia student, walking along Broad Street, was attacked by a woman dressed as a mime. The accused attacker, Stephanie Walker, 37, of Hawthorne Avenue, wore all black and had her face painted white, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald.
A man from Oglethorpe County who was driving by stopped the attacker from beating the 20-year-old student, the story says. He then chased and caught the suspect, holding her until two probation officers in the area came to help.
The student told police that she had parked her car near Newton Street and was headed to campus when a woman approached her and accused her of watching her on television—even as the student tried to explain that she didn't own a television. The attacker pulled the student's ponytail, hit her and pushed her to the ground, according to the newspaper story
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A police officer who spoke to Walker said in his report that she was ranting. The story says he recommended she have a mental evaluation.
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