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Virginia Commonwealth Police are asking the public to help identify a man sought in connection with a pair of sexual battery incidents on the university's medical campus earlier this week.

About 3:45 p.m. Monday, a victim reported that a man pushed her against the wall and attempted to unbutton her pants in a first-floor restroom of the McGlothlin Medical Education Center 1201 E. Marshall St., police said. The victim was able to push the man away, and he left the restroom.

In a second incident a few moments later, a man hit the buttocks of a woman standing outside the Kontos Medical Sciences Building at 1217 E. Marshall St., police said. The man fled north on Marshall Street.

Detectives are working to determine if the incidents are related, police said. Patrols have been increased in the area.