Crime alert: Indecent assault, Dover Street, 8 pm yesterday

[ron_newman]

From a Somerville Police press release:

Somerville Police are investigating an indecent assault and battery that occurred in the Davis Square area Monday evening. At about 8 p.m., a 32-year- old woman was walking from the Davis Square MBTA station to a nearby address. She exited the station through the rear of the Holland Street side.

The woman proceeded to walk up Dover Street toward Cambridge while talking on her cell phone when she was approached from behind by an unknown suspect who indecently assaulted her. The victim turned around, saw the suspect and screamed while running into the street. The suspect immediately fled in the direction of Davis Square. The victim was not injured and required no medical treatment.

The victim described the suspect as a black male, about 6 feet tall, wearing all black clothing and a black baseball cap.

Comments

[elerz.livejournal.com]

What can we do to ask the city of Somerville for more streetlights and better surveillance for these streets? I walk down Dover to get home every night, and am always scared. The street is poorly lit (the worst is the motion sensor street light that senses the road but not the sidewalk)and there is hardly ever anyone walking on it. It would be great to have more lights but what are the chances of that happening?

[ron_newman]

If there are burned-out or non-working lights, you should start by calling 311. Where is the motion-sensitive light?

You may want to walk down Day Street instead. It has a lot of pedestrian traffic from both the metered parking lot and Sacco's-Flatbread -- and will probably have more once the 7-11 finally opens.

[elerz.livejournal.com]

I think it's the first light after the "exiting central business district" sign as you're walking down Dover towards Mass Ave on the right side of the street. It's either motion-sensitive or broken, but I'm pretty sure it's the former. I've noticed it turn on while I'm walking in the street or when a car is coming, but never when I'm walking on the sidewalk.

Thanks for the suggestion of going on Day!