Man scales locked gate in chilling video after allegedly chasing college student home, then walks free: police
Eight p.m. A locked gate. The same man walked the sidewalk the next night and still went home.
Summary
- Fox News, citing ABC7 and Berkeley police, reports a Sept. 15 surveillance video shows a UC Berkeley student, identified as Eden, entering a locked apartment complex around 8 p.m. as a man scales the gate behind her while holding an object first reported as a knife.
- Eden told ABC7 she had been walking her dog on Berkeley Way when the man gestured, approached, and ran at her. She shut the gate, saw him climb, and reached an elevator before he saw where she went. Police later said the object was likely a barbecue lighter and that there was no direct contact.
- Berkeley PD received her call at about 8:04 p.m. Patrol units were on a domestic-violence case and a missing-person risk. Officers arrived about an hour later and did not find him.
- At about 9:24 p.m. the next night, officers detained the same man on a sidewalk near Berkeley Way and Walnut, confirmed he was the trespass suspect, and released him. California law generally bars a warrantless misdemeanor arrest that did not occur in an officer's presence. The case went to the Alameda County DA. No charges as of Monday.
Commentary
A night-shift dad still walks a dog past linoleum and knows a locked gate is supposed to mean a hold, not a climb the camera already caught. He did not pay the levy so a presence rule could send the same man back to the sidewalk.
8:04 call. One hour later. Next night at 9:24, identified and walked. The vinyl chair in that Berkeley lobby still remembers the student who made the elevator.
Look every working father who still locks a California porch after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if the same man already climbed the gate on camera, who still owns the next 8 p.m. sidewalk a presence rule tries to leave empty?
Comments
Sept. 15, 8 p.m. Next night 9:24. No charges Monday. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so a locked latch still meant a hold. A climb on camera is not a weather report.
PD: presence rule. DA reviewing. Print both.
Allied campuses still treat a scaled gate as a breach, not a lighter debate.
8:04 call, one-hour lag, Alameda review. File the three.
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next Berkeley Way empty of a load.
A locked-gate climb is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A presence rule that walks an identified climber is a second border around every honest lobby.
Fox printed 8 p.m., 9:24, and Alameda. Argue those nouns.
Hold the DA file. Keep the latch. A sidewalk release is not a souvenir.
