Two separate attempted knife assaults occurred in the last five days on and near the Foggy Bottom campus, according to Metropolitan Police Department reports of the incidents.

Two women reported being threatened by a 52-year-old man who brandished a knife at 18th and G streets around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16. According to a MPD report, one woman said he approached her “talking very outlandish while holding a knife in his hand,” and she ran towards her car which she said was parked near 19th and F streets to call the police.

The second woman said that “a white male was following her and trying to attack her with a knife that he was holding in his right hand.” Her boyfriend managed to subdue and detain the man, and two police officers from the MPD Second District Vice Unit  arrested the suspect. According to the report, the officers were in an unmarked vehicle patrolling the Patrol Service Area 207, which encompasses the Foggy Bottom campus “in reference to the influx of theft from autos and robberies” in the area.

The suspect’s motive was unknown, Lt. Victor S. Braschnewitz said in an e-mail. University Chief of Police Dolores Stafford said the crime was not reported to GW police by the victims or by MPD.

The second attack occurred Thursday, Dec. 17 at 20th and K streets at approximately 6:25 p.m. Nothing else is known about the assault at this time.