University of Utah warns of stalker who allegedly followed students into dorms
Sep 19, 2024, 3:58 PM
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah Police issued a safety warning Wednesday after they said a man was stalking students on campus and around the downtown Salt Lake City area.
Oluwatobi Shokunbi, 34, also known as “King Rocky,” is banned from the University of Utah campus. Police said he has followed students into university housing and also threatened a woman at the University of Utah Hospital.
Oluwatobi Oludaisi Shokunbi, who is suspected of stalking women on the University of Utah campus. (The University of Utah)
According to the warning, he was last seen at Kahlert Village, the University’s largest student housing community where more than 1,000 first-year students live.
In a press conference on Thursday, Cpt. Brian Lohrke with the University of Utah Department of Public Safety said that two weeks ago, someone reported Shokunbi entered the apartment of students who live off campus. Weeks after, the same man was reportedly seen following a girl into a dorm.
Shokunbi was arrested for trespassing days later, after he was back on campus at Ekller Village residential housing building, and acknowledged he knew he was not supposed to be there, Lohrke said. He was booked into Salt Lake County Jail but was released.
“After that release, we had some concerns because of his willfulness to ignore our trespass order,” Lohrke said. “So we issued a campus-wide alert to the greater community of our campus.”
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