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A University of Southern California student was allegedly raped by a Lyft driver who picked her up from a night out in West Hollywood Wednesday.
Police are actively searching for the Lyft driver, who assaulted the unidentified woman inside his car at the 3600 block of South Grand Avenue.
The driver is described as a thinly built man between the age of 25 to 35 years old with a black beard and black hair.
After attending the Halloween Carnival in West Hollywood, the female student hailed a black sedan through a rideshare service.
The female student was reportedly attacked at around 3am Wednesday after she and the driver arrived at her apartment near the USC campus.
A University of Southern California student was allegedly raped by a Lyft driver who picked her up from a night out in West Hollywood Wednesday.
'Our thoughts are with the victim and this has no place in society. Based on the information available at this time,' a Lyft spokesperson said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
'We have not identified a report or ride matching the description and can't confirm it involved the Lyft platform.
'We have reached out to law enforcement and stand ready to assist with their investigation.'
USC also sent out an alert to its community, detailing the situation and providing suspect information.
The San Francisco-based recorded more than 4,000 claims of sexual assault from 2017 to 2019, according to its first safety report in 2021.
The report came after fellow ride sharing company Uber released similar data in a 2019 report which revealed around 6,000 reported cases between 2017 to 2018.
In total, Lyft reported 1,096 reports of sexual assault in 2017, 1,255 in 2018 and 1,807 in 2019. There were also 360 total
