UCF Police are investigating an attempted battery on campus Monday night that they think may be connected to two other recent attempted attacks.

According to police, a female student told them that a man approached her at about 6 p.m. inside Parking Garage C, asking her for help with his vehicle.

The student said the man then reached over and tried to touch her leg. She screamed, and he ran away, police said.

The student described the man as a thin, dark-skinned man with glasses, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, about 130 to 140 pounds. He was wearing a light gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants. She also told police that he appeared “college-aged” and spoke with an accent.

Students who park in the garage were uneasy about the latest incident.

“This is supposed to be a safe place where you go to learn safely. You shouldn’t have to worry, among your assignments and everything, about your personal safety when you go to your car," said Christian MacDougall, a UCF student.

Caroline Flurkey, another student, agreed.

"It’s not only the students that are kind of in danger, there are also people who want to see the school, and it kind of hurts what UCF is trying to represent," she said.

Police say the description and circumstances of the incident closely matches similar incidents that happened at the UCF campus within the past month and a half.

The first was on Dec. 5, when a witness saw a screaming woman get pushed into a car near the Tower 3 loading dock near Gemini Boulevard. Then, just over a month later on Jan. 10, a different female student was grabbed at a vending machine in a Businesses Administration building.

The incidents appear to be unrelated to an attempted sexual battery case on Valencia College's east campus earlier this month, authorities say.

Authorities encourage anyone with information to call UCFPD at 407-823-5555.