Jarrett Buba — the man charged with attacking two Jewish Pitt students and attempting to assault two people associated with Carnegie Mellon University — now faces additional charges of throwing glass at a Point Park University student-athlete, gashing the student’s lip and chipping his teeth.
Police say Buba, 52, approached the Point Park student while he was jogging on Aug. 29 in the Strip District on Liberty Avenue near 16th Street.
Without speaking to the student, Buba hit him with a bag of glass or bottle that shattered on impact, police say. Buba then pulled up his shirt to reveal what the student believed to be a knife.
The student ran from the area. Suffering from chipped teeth and a gash in his lip that required stitches, he was treated at UPMC Mercy.
Later that day, two people associated with Carnegie Mellon said Buba threw a bottle at them on South Craig Street in Oakland.
And a day later, police say Buba ran at two Jewish students and struck them from behind with a glass bottle outside of the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus. One of the students had cuts on his face and the other was bleeding from cuts on his neck.
Both Pitt students were wearing yarmulkes, the traditional cap worn by Jewish men, while Buba was wearing a keffiyeh, a checkered scarf that has come to represent Palestinian solidarity amid the Israel-Hamas War.
The Point Park student identified Buba as his assailant on Sept. 4 after Pitt Police shared an image of Buba after the Pitt assault.
For the Point Park incident, Buba faces charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and harassment.
He also faces two counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and harassment, among other charges, in relation to the attack on Pitt’s campus, and reckless endangerment and harassment charges for the South Craig Street incident.
All three incidents occurred during the first week of classes at Pitt, CMU and Point Park.
First Published: September 27, 2024, 2:54 p.m.
Updated: September 28, 2024, 12:09 p.m.