Claude Abran Finch / Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office photoAfter two separate incidents last month – a stalking and a sexual assault – on the Southern Adventist University campus, Collegedale police and campus safety are urging students to stay safe.
A man has been charged in the investigation of both incidents. Claude Abran Finch III was arrested Nov. 17 in connection to one incident of stalking and one incident of sexual assault on the campus grounds. Finch has been charged with sexual battery, stalking, reckless endangerment and evading arrest.
On Nov. 15 a student reported to Southern Adventist University campus safety suspicious activity involving a red Chevy hatchback with tinted windows in the parking lot across from the women’s dormitory on Timberland Terrace. When campus officers arrived, the vehicle was gone.
The next day, the same student reported the red Chevy had parked behind her car, preventing her from leaving her parking space. Later, the red Chevy moved and she was able to leave the space, but as she traveled to class she noticed the Chevy was following her, according to a Collegedale Police Department report.