2 sex-related offenses reported at HPER

IU Police Department officers responded to two separate nonforcible sex-related offenses Thursday in the shower areas of the men's locker rooms at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation within two hours of each other.\nA man reported that while he was showering in the pool locker room at about 5:20 p.m., he looked up to see a fully clothed man masturbating while watching several men shower, said Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report. Witnesses described the subject as a white male of average build with a dark goatee wearing blue jeans, a red knit IU cap and a red sweatshirt or jacket.\nMinger said officers checked the area but were unable to locate the subject.\nAccording to the police report, about an hour and a half later officers received another report from a locker room in the same building that said someone had been peeping in the men's showers in the locker room from the bathroom area on the north side. According to the report, the complainant said the subject was blowing his nose while he watched.\nMinger said the complainant reported seeing the same man in the south bathroom area, again blowing his nose while watching men shower, and then once more in the north area. The complainant said the subject then walked out into the hall and into the pool locker room.\nAccording to the report, the complainant described the subject as a white male with a slightly athletic build and black spiked hair, wearing a black jacket with a red collar and a jeweled stud earring in his right ear.\n"The two descriptions aren't so similar that they would be considered exactly the same person, but sometimes different people see the same things and give different descriptions," Minger said. "While it is unusual to have two incidents occur in such a short amount of time, (IUPD will) be trying to check on both instances separately but not discounting that they may be related"