The University of Illinois Police Department is warning of the return of a criminal trend on campus: the theft of electric scooters. Department officials said there have been numerous reports this semester of scooters being stolen from campus locations.

Police are investigating a felony hit-and-run after a woman riding an electric scooter hit a 70-year-old man and rode off in Koreatown on Sept. 12. The man died two days later. KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw spoke with local residents who expressed growing concerns about the safety of electric scooters.

A 65-year-old man has died days after he was hit by a woman riding an e-scooter in Koreatown earlier in September and police are investigating the incident as a felony hit-and-run.

Law enforcement is searching for the driver of an electric scooter who struck and injured an elderly man on a sidewalk in Koreatown. The crash happened shortly before 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 on the 2800 block of James M Wood Boulevard,

Police are investigating a felony hit-and-run after a woman riding an electric scooter hit a 70-year-old man and rode off in Koreatown on Sept. 12. The victim, identified as Danny Kim, suffered a head injury but did not want to be taken to the hospital.

Donny Kim was hit by a woman on an e-scooter and knocked to the ground, hitting his head. Two days later he was dead.