Students assaulted by three students

Criminal justice freshman Abby Vesa and her boyfriend, criminal justice freshman Jose Angel, were walking toward Angel's truck at 4:50 p.m. Monday in Lot 21 southeast of Candler Physical Education Center when three young students cornered the couple and assaulted Angel.

"Angel received minor abrasions to the left side of his head and a swollen eye," said Sgt. Jessica Cervantes of Alamo Colleges Police Department.

The three suspects started to punch and kick Angel's stomach, head and face. Vesa tried to protect her boyfriend by covering him with her back so he would not receive any more punches to head.

The three suspects instead started to hit Vesa in the back, Vesa said.

"I don't think they tried to hit me intentionally," she said. "I was just in the way."

Even though Vesa believes the suspects did not hit her intentionally, she received a few bruises. An onlooker who was watching the fight called campus police. The suspects then fled the area on foot.

Angel vomited after the fight; Vesa said it was probably either his nerves or being light-headed or dizzy.

"He's throwing up, which is not a great sign, but it could be stress or the excitement of it all," paramedic Lydia Clark said.

Angel was in stable condition, but paramedics advised him to go to the nearest hospital. The assault was a result of a conflict earlier that day. One of the suspects was trying to make advances on Vesa the day prior to the fight. At 1 p.m. when Vesa and Angel were walking to their next class, one of the suspects was giving dirty looks to Angel.

"They were trying to talk to me, but were looking at him ugly," she said. Vesa said the suspects and Angel were becoming angry, and Angel said he was not scared of them and asked if they wanted to fight. At around 4 p.m., Vesa was studying in the library in Moody Learning Center. When she looked up from her studies, one of the suspects was hovering over her. He said, "Yo, what's up?"

"I told him to please leave me alone," she said.

Vesa said when she left the library and met up with Angel the suspect started to taunt Angel and said Vesa was flirting with him.

The suspects continued to give Angel dirty looks while they were walking to the Lot 21 parking lot. When things started to escalate, Vesa said, "Now are y'all going to fight him when it's all three of you?"

Vesa recognized one of the suspects from a student development class.

Onlookers gave district police a description of the three suspects. In a campus crime alert sent out Tuesday, the report said the suspects were described as three Hispanic males, wearing black and carrying black backpacks. One had a red marking on his black jacket and another had markings on the back pocket of his jeans.

Sgt. Ben Peña of district DPS said no arrests have been made and the investigation is still ongoing.