Police are still looking for a man who attacked a female student in the second floor E-building bathroom on the morning of April 16. Following the attack, the victim told police she believed the attacker was a man who had been stalking her and whom she had previously reported.

Police initially identified Roderick D. Knight, Gary, Ind., as the primary suspect after investigating the victim’s prior police reports of a man that had been stalking her at her home and work place in the Frankfort area. However, their investigation reversed when police brought Knight in for questioning and determined that he was not the attacker.

"The guy was picked up last night (April 17) and we interviewed him and we do not believe he is guy—despite the identification," said Comanda, in a recent interview.

Knight has no priors and no one identified him at the scene. Police said their investigation led them to Knight by a partial license-plate identification provided in the earlier stalking report filed by the victim.

On the morning of the attack, the student walked into the women’s bathroom in the second floor E-building and was attacked from behind, pushed into a wall and knocked unconscious, police said. Students and faculty found her lying on the bathroom floor and administered first-aid in attempts to revive her.

After being taken to the hospital, she told police that she had been filing reports that a man in a red, Jeep, SUV-style vehicle had driven past her house in Frankfort and shown up at her work in Park Forest. This led police to believe that the attack was not random and that the victim had been specifically targeted. Police still issued a campus crime alert through Mobile Campus and the JJC website.

On April 18, Comanda issued this update to the original crime alert:

"Campus police are no longer searching for the suspect identified in the 4-17-08 crime alert message. There is no danger to the campus community, and campus police have increased patrols at all campuses."

Police continue the investigation.