The NC State Campus Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house this weekend.

Campus Police Chief Jack Moorman said a person reported the sexual assault happened early Sunday morning at the fraternity house at 1402 Varsity Drive. 

Because the investigation is ongoing, Moorman said the authorities cannot release more information at this time, including the victim’s gender or whether or not the victim was a student. 

“If the victim is a student, we want to do everything we can to protect the identity of the survivor,” Moorman said. “We don’t want to release any information that might help people discover the identity of that student.”

Moorman said authorities are continuing to interview people. 

“At this point in time, there is not a lot of information for us to release,” Moorman said. “But one thing that is important for students to know is any allegation or report is something that we take very seriously.”

University Police sent out a WolfAlert email notifying the entire NC State community of the reported incident at about 1:30 a.m. Monday. 

In addition to the criminal investigation, Moorman said Campus Police are working in conjunction with the Office of Student Conduct to ensure the university is aware of any information Campus Police find that may also violate NC State’s Code of Student Conduct. 

Although other news outlets have reported the incident occurred at a party at the fraternity house, Moorman said University Police are not referring to it as a party because many people interpret the term party differently

 “To some people a party might be an official university-sanctioned event, and to some people it might not be,” Moorman said. “What we can say is that it occurred in the house there.”

The assault was originally reported to the Raleigh Police Department but the case was handed over to Campus Police once the RPD determined it was in University Police’s jurisdiction.