Three area college students were attacked early Sunday morning in two separate incidents near the Georgetown campus.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department and university officials, the incidents are related. Another student was assaulted near the Car Barn early Thursday morning.

Two Georgetown University students and a George Washington University student were accosted by two teenagers brandishing guns who were then arrested by police officers, according to a police report released by MPD.

Dan Schier (SFS ’05) was walking south on 34th Street at 3:36 a.m. when he passed an alleyway. The two suspects called out to him and he reported hearing the “racking sound of a gun.” According to Schier, he immediately ran to his apartment where he called the Department of Public Safety, who responded immediately to the scene.

“I had parked my car and was just walking back home when I saw these two guys walking out of the alley,” he said. “One guy said `hey you’ and I heard someone cocking a gun. I ran back to my apartment and called DPS.”

According to the DPS report, another incident occurred at 4 a.m. when the two other students reported that they had been accosted by the two suspects, according to the MPD report. At 4:38 a.m. MPD police officers reported hearing a gunshot and witnessed the two suspects running west on Prospect Street.

According to the MPD report, the officers then apprehended one of the suspects who was in possession of the second student’s wallet. The second suspect ran away but was later apprehended.

During the robbery the third student had also been attacked and his nose bloodied, the report said.

A DPS announcement released Thursday evening said the suspects had fired a gun in the air after threatening the students and saying “you think I’m playing with you.”

The suspects’ names were not released by MPD but they were described as young teenagers, aged 15 and 19 years old. They will be charged with attempted armed robbery and robbery while armed, both felonies.

According to David Morrell, Georgetown’s vice president for university safety, the Sunday attacks were not the only violent crimes recently committed near the main campus.

Morrell said another incident occurred on the Exorcist steps early yesterday morning.

At 1:45 a.m. an unidentified female Georgetown student was attacked by a man demanding money as she stood at the top of the steps.

The man displayed a knife, punched her in the face, threw her to the ground and ran away, Morrell said.

Although the public safety announcement referred to an “increase in street crime especially between the hours of 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.” in the last few weeks, officials avoided characterizing the recent incidents as a crime wave. Morrell emphasized that the university is doing all it can to protect the Georgetown community.

“We’re working to keep students safe and students need to also realize they’re partly responsible for their own safety,” Morrell said.