A female student at the University of California, Irvine, was stabbed Sunday night as she walked her dog near the school’s student housing facilities, reports said.

A picture from the scene shows the woman being loaded into an ambulance. A UCI police spokesman said that a man approached the woman from behind and stabbed her. He remains at large. A tweet from the school’s public safety account described the man as having a “large build.”

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Students were advised to shelter in place and a recreation center was shut down shortly after 10 p.m., KTLA reported.