Suspect arrested in Washington state after allegedly breaking into university dorms, groping students

A Washington state man in has been arrested after allegedly breaking into two dorm rooms at Pacific Lutheran University and groping students who were asleep, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said.

Dylan Robinson was booked into jail for assault and burglary charges Sunday evening after getting into a locked dormitory on the university’s campus earlier that morning, FOX13 Seattle reported.

The first incident allegedly unfolded around 4:15 a.m., according to a woman who told police that she woke up feeling that someone was watching her and her roommate.

When the woman checked a closet, a male suspect grabbed her, the report said.

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The woman began hitting the suspect and yelling at him to leave, deputies said. The man left the room but allegedly entered a different room around 5:30 a.m.

A woman in that dorm said she woke up to find the suspect groping her, and she screamed.

The suspect fled again, but the two women in the first dorm heard the scream and chased after the suspect, the sheriff's department said. He allegedly struck one of the women with a shoe before the other pepper sprayed him.

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The women followed him to a nearby apartment complex and took a photo of him before losing sight of him, the station reported.

Investigators received a tip just before 6 p.m. leading them to Robinson’s location and took him into custody, KIRO-TV reported.

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Authorities asked anyone with information about the incident to contact the sheriff's office.

Dark-skinned Jesus on stained-glass church window from 1870s prompts debate on Christ's race

A stained-glass window depicting Jesus Christ as a person of color is prompting scrutiny into the role of race, slavery and gender in 19th-century New England.

The window, which adorns St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Warren, Rhode Island, shows Jesus with dark skin while he speaks to a dark-skinned Samaritan woman at a well.

Another scene in the 12-feet tall, five-feet wide window shows Jesus speaking with Martha and Mary before the raising of Lazarus from the dead.

The window was installed in 1878 while the U.S. was still reeling from the aftermath of the Civil War and the ensuing work of Reconstruction, which ended a year before. The church building closed in 2010.

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Virginia Raguin, an expert on stained-glass art who also serves as a professor of humanities emerita at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, noted it is the only stained-glass depiction of a dark-skinned Jesus from that era of which she is aware.

"This window is unique and highly unusual," she said. "I have never seen this iconography for that time."

"Both stories were selected to profile equality," Raguin also said, observing the window shows Jesus interacting with women as equals.

Fashioned by the Henry E. Sharp studio in New York, the window was mostly forgotten until it was rediscovered when Hadley Arnold and her family purchased the church to convert it into a home after it closed in 2010 after 180 years.

"The skin tones were nothing like the White Christ you usually see," said Arnold, who noticed the dark-skinned depiction when she had the windows removed to replace with clear glass.

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Scholars are reportedly studying the potential intentions of the artist and Mary P. Carr, the woman who commissioned the window in memory of her aunts who married into families involved with the slave trade.

Arnold said the intention of the artist remains unclear.

"Is this repudiation? Is this congratulations? Is this a secret sign?" she asked, adding that she feels uncomfortable saying the window depicts a Black Jesus and prefers to say it shows him as a person of color from the Middle East.

Arnold noted that the window was made during the administration of former President Hayes after the Compromise of 1877, which settled a disputed presidential election and effectively ended a Reconstruction-era push to guarantee formerly enslaved Black Americans full civil rights.

"We don’t know, but it would appear that she is honoring people of conscience, however imperfect their actions or their effectiveness may have been," Arnold said of Carr. "I don’t think it would be there otherwise."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.