A Georgetown graduate student was reportedly robbed at gunpoint on Prospect Street early Saturday morning, sustaining a small injury beneath his eye before his assaulters fled the scene. Zachary Levey (GRD ’08) reported that around 3:20 a.m., two men approached him as he was walking alone on the 3400 block of Prospect Street. One of the men asked him for a cigarette. “I go to reach down and they kind of rush me,” Levey said. “There was a slight struggle, and they pulled out a gun and stuck it underneath my neck.” The first suspect then said, “Give me your fucking money,” according to a Metropolitan Police Department incident report. The two suspects then reached into Levey’s pockets and took out his cell phone and wallet, according to the report. After securing the items, the first suspect hit Levey underneath his left eye with the gun, described as a small, silver revolver. Levey said the hit from the revolver “kind of [made] it an easy getaway [for the assailants].” The suspects then ran east on Prospect Street, according to the MPD report. After the incident, Levey flagged down a nearby Department of Public Safety officer, who called MPD to the scene. In the MPD report, Levey described the first suspect as a 5-foot-10 black male between the ages of 30 and 40. He described the second suspect as a 6-foot-2 black male between the ages of 30 and 40. Levey said that the only injury he suffered was a welt under his eye. An ambulance responded to the MPD call and examined Levey, who subsequently refused hospital treatment. “A black eye’s a black eye,” he said. Although Levey said he still considers the area around campus reasonably safe, he acknowledged the need for better lighting on many of the Georgetown streets. “It’s too easy,” he said. “People can hide in the shadows so easily and just wait for somebody to come by.” Levey added that he has no plan to change his routine as a result of the incident. “Things like that happen,” he said. “I’m not going to change my habits. You can’t live in fear.” According to the report, the incident is still under investigation by MPD. PD Second District Lt. Roland Hoyle said it is unclear whether robbers are targeting Georgetown students, but that perpetrators in incidents such as this are “definitely targeting the northwest section, where people have a lot of money and there are a lot of businesses.” Hoyle added, though, that the recent incidents do not constitute an increase in robberies in Georgetown. He said that in January 2007, five robberies were reported in police service area 206, the sector of the Second District in which Georgetown is located, compared to four reported robberies in the same area this year.