EUGENE, Ore. -- Two men who claimed to be armed forced a female University of Oregon student to drive to automated teller machines where they attempted to withdraw cash from her account early Wednesday morning.

The incident started in the UO parking lot at 14th Avenue and Kincaid Street between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Wednesday. The two men persuaded the women to give them a ride. 

KVAL News received two accounts of the incident, one from Eugene police and another from an e-mail alert sent to students. Copies of both releases are posted below.

A UO campus safety sergeant told KVAL News Eugene police looked at the e-mail alert and approved it before it was sent to students.

Reporters are working to verify which account is more accurate.

According to the police press release, the woman stopped at an ATM with the men in her car, at which point one of them pressesd a hard object in her back and told her it was a gun. The men forced her to give them her ATM number, which they used to attempt to withdraw money at that location and at another location before fleeing the vehicle in south Eugene.

According to the e-mail alert sent to students, once in the vehicle, the men told the woman they had a gun and instructed her to drive to a series of ATMs to withdraw cash.

It is not yet known, based on the two accounts, whether the men initially forced her to drive to ATMs or if the victim stopped at an ATM before the men told her they had a gun. It is not yet known, based on the two accounts, whether the woman or one of the men withdrew the cash from the ATMs.

The victim was not physically harmed.

The victim described one of the suspects as a white male between the ages of 18 and 21, approximately 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8 and between 170 and 180 pounds. He has blond hair and may have a round scar on his forehead.  At the time of the incident he was seen wearing an orange zip-up hoodie sweatshirt. 

The victim described the second as a Native American male between the ages of 18 and 21 with black hair, approximately 5-foot-5-inches tall and weighing approximately 150 to 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red and black jersey-style shirt and a dark knit hat.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Eugene Police Department's crime tip line at (541) 682-8888 or the University of Oregon Department of Public Safety at (541) 346-2919.

The following is a press release courtesy Eugene Police Department

Eugene Police are investigating a robbery that began early this morning around 3:00 a.m., near 14th Avenue and Kincaid Street when two men approached the female victim requesting a ride.

On the way to the location, the woman stopped at a local bank at which time one of the subjects stuck a hard object in the victim's back declaring that he had a gun. The suspects forced the woman to provide them with her personal identification number so that they could withdraw money from her account. The men then demanded that she drive to an additional location where they again used the automated teller machine to attempt to withdraw money. The suspects eventually had the woman drop them off in an area of South Eugene. Both suspects fled the car, leaving the victim unharmed.

Both male suspects were described as between the ages of 18- to 21-years-old. One suspect was reported to be Caucasian approximately 5' 7" to 5' 8" tall and between 170 and 180 pounds. He had blonde hair and may have a round scar on his forehead. At the time of the incident he was seen wearing an orange zip-up hoodie sweatshirt. The second suspect was described as a Native American male approximately 5' 5" tall, weighing 150 to 170 pounds, with black hair. He was last seen wearing a red and black jersey style shirt, and a dark knit hat.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Eugene Police Department's tip line at 682-8888. 

The following is a copy of the e-mail alert sent to University of Oregon students

A female University of Oregon student reported that two unidentified males approached her in the UO's parking lot 16 at 14th Avenue and Kincaid Street on the morning of Wednesday, May 27, between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.  During a conversation with the subjects, the victim was persuaded to provide the two men a ride to an off-campus location.  

Once in the vehicle, the victim was led to believe that one of the subjects possessed a handgun.  The student was instructed to drive to a series of automated teller machines where the suspects withdrew cash from the victim's bank account.  After the withdrawals, the suspects departed.  The victim was not harmed physically.

One of the suspects is described as a Caucasian male between the ages of 18 and 21.  He is approximately 5’ 7” to 5’ 8” in height and between 170 and 180 pounds.  He has blond hair and may have a round scar on his forehead.  At the time of the incident he was seen wearing an orange zip-up hoodie sweatshirt.  The second suspect is described as a Native American male, also between the ages of 18 and 21.  He is described as 5’ 5” tall and weighing approximately 150 to 170 pounds, with black hair.  He was last seen wearing a red and black jersey-style shirt and a dark knit hat.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Eugene Police Department's crime tip line at 682-8888 or the University of Oregon Department of Public Safety at 346-2919.