URBANA — Urbana police and University of Illinois police have released videos taken during the time of a sexual assault that took place in the 1100 block of West Nevada Street, Urbana, early Friday morning.

According to a police report, a video of the 1200 block of West Nevada Street showed six people walking east on the north sidewalk between 1:30 and 3 a.m. March 12.

Later a man could be seen walking west on the sidewalk, and a group of three people could be seen walking east on the same sidewalk.

Later on the video, another man was seen walking west on the sidewalk.

Here are the three videos released by police:
http://www.dps.illinois.edu/crime/nevada1/nevada1.html
http://www.dps.illinois.edu/crime/nevada2/nevada2.html
http://www.dps.illinois.edu/crime/nevada3/nevada3.html

UI and Urbana police responded to a report of a sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman at 3:02 a.m. Friday, the report said.

The woman told police she was walking home in the area of Goodwin Avenue and Nevada Street.  As the woman prepared to cross the street, a man tapped her on the shoulder, forced her behind a nearby building and sexually assaulted her. The man, who was wearing a dark sweatshirt and a necklace described as a wire-wrapped cross, then ran off, she told police.