Editor’s Note: This is a developing story. More details will be added as they are made available.
The WKU Police Department is investigating a cell phone found by a student in a second-floor Regents Hall bathroom. The phone was allegedly used to secretly record residents in a bathroom in the residence hall.
Police believe the cell phone was “taped to a fixture” in the bathroom and discovered when it fell to the ground. The phone was unused except for a downloaded “security camera app” to transmit footage from the cell phone, WKUPD said.
WKUPD collected the device and sent it for forensic investigation, which Chief of Police Mitch Walker said he expects results from “in the next week or so.”
A suspect is identified, but police have not made an arrest.
“We’re waiting on forensic investigation results at this time before we move forward,” Walker said.
Walker did not confirm when the phone was found or who found it.
WKUPD was advised by the university’s general counsel’s office not to release the initial report to the Herald due to the ongoing nature of the investigation. The Herald has since put in a written request for the document.