The story was updated at 2:55 on April 22 to remove the inaccurate statement, “Rodriguez told SAC Media that Sampat informed her, Tinoco and the two other students involved that the suspect is a repeat offender.”

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On Wednesday, April 17, between approximately 12:14-12:54 p.m., a 19-year-old female student was approached by a homeless male outside of building 2T who would harass and expose himself to multiple students.

The Mt. SAC Crime Bulletin alerts were sent to students and faculty regarding the incident on April 18 at 2:04 p.m., over 24 hours after the fact via text.

Four minutes later, an email with more details was sent campus wide.

The email stated: “The suspect is described as a male, Hispanic standing 5-foot-9 tall and weighing 160 pounds with short black hair and a black beard. He was wearing a black t-shirt and plaid pants that were gray, red and black.”

Prior to the indecent exposure, multiple witnesses reportedly saw the man who was by all accounts “intoxicated, under the influence and disheveled,” walk around the theater area and attempt to enter the building 2T-120 class room before being kicked out by professor Susan Boulanger, a Mt. SAC theater and acting instructor.

According to Boulanger, she was teaching and her classroom door was propped open and the suspect was staring in. He made her and several witnesses uncomfortable and proceeded immediately to close the door.

Miranda Rodriguez, an 18-year-old social justice student, said the man was holding an almost empty tequila bottle, several grocery bags containing his belongings and marijuana while attempting to enter the classroom.

As Boulanger approached, the man lit a marijuana joint and said he was waiting for his class. Not buying it, Boulanger asked him to leave, to which he said to Boulanger, “I’m a student in your class,” which Boulanger said was not true.

He began to become agitated as she was closing the door.

Susan Tinoco, a 20-year old theater arts student, witnessed the man attempting to enter the class from across the way. Boulanger and another student called for security right away to have the suspect removed from the premises. Boulanger had asked the man several times to leave before he voluntarily left.

After he left, Tinoco and Miranda witnessed the suspect sit on a bench in front of the Fredrickson Recital Hall where a female student was sitting.

Tinoco and Rodriguez got up from their bench to intercept the female student while their colleague at their bench stayed behind in case anything happened. The two walked over to the student and intervened pretending to know her and took her away from the bench calmly and proceeded to head back to their bench.

Upon reaching their seats, the student had revealed to Tinoco, Miranda and their colleague that the man offered her alcohol and marijuana. She thanked them and they continued to keep her company until campus security arrived.

It had been approximately 15-20 minutes after the security was called to escort the homeless individual away and none had arrived.

Tinoco could not wait any longer and took the initiative to use her electric scooter to quickly go across campus and search for any nearby security. Luckily, she was able to locate Officer Rafael Ixco and notified him that they had been waiting nearly a half hour for Campus Safety to escort the individual off the campus.

Ixco let Tinoco know campus security would handle the situation as quickly as possible but they had received another call about a “potential fire.” He added that someone was already on their way to the scene at the theater area.

Tinoco returned without help and the homeless man was already sitting next to them at their bench.

According to Rodriguez, the suspect had approached them five minutes after Tinoco left, catcalled them and made them uncomfortable and scared. Tinoco stood up for the group and demanded he leave the school or she would call police and security.

The man made sexual gestures at the students such as the “V fingers with the tongue in between” while saying “I’ll have you all like that” and “humping the air.”

The suspect then began stretching his pajama pants out, “exposing his man parts.”

Upset, disgusted and vulnerable, one of Tinoco and Rodriguez’s colleagues quickly knocked on a classroom door nearby to be let in. Luckily, Boulanger opened the doors, assisted the students and saw the same man she had kicked out her classroom was still there.

At that point, another theater faculty member came out, as one of the students had gone to her for help. As the students went into the classroom, the suspect walked away toward the Clarke Theater.

Boulanger looked around the plaza to see if any other students might be in danger, went back into the room and called public safety again. She informed them about the situation and requested for security immediately.

She would also call her division office to inform Dean of Arts Michelle Sampat of what occurred.

Boulanger and the students who she was teaching at that time collectively comforted and assisted the three students in the classroom.

According to Tinoco, campus security had still not arrived until nearly an hour after they entered the classroom for protection.

Tinoco stated Officer Ixco, the same officer who she located earlier, was the one to arrive on the scene and notified the students and professor that he could not arrest him because “he did not touch any of them.” despite the man verbally harassing and flashing his genitalia at them.

The suspect was let go and eventually left the campus.

According to Tinoco, she and her colleagues spoke to Mt. SAC President Martha Garcia during her Pop in with the President hours regarding the incident, implementing more security and cameras in the theater area to deter more incidents like this from happening.

Tinoco said Garcia’s response to the idea of more security near the theater area was, “We haven’t gone through the thought of it yet,” and seemed to be avoidant of addressing the matter head on.

Rodriguez disclosed that amongst her friends involved, they each have survived sexual assaults with two of them experiencing them on campus.

Tinoco took to social media shortly after speaking with Garcia to express her outrage at the lack of initiative from the campus to update the school and for the inaction to protect her and her fellow students.

SAC Media has reached out to Police and Campus Safety for additional information but was told all of the information on the matter was posted onto the crime logs website and provided in the campus wide email.

Sampat informed SAC Media that there will be a meeting held where acting Chief of Police Veronica Saucedo and several theater faculty members will discuss the incident that occurred and possibly implement new safety precautions to bolster the security around building 2T.

For students and faculty who have experienced crimes of sexual nature, the Title IX Office, Mt. SAC Mental Health Centers and Project Sister are on campus resources for survivors to use at any time. Outside resources include the Nation Sexual Violence Hotline that is open 24/7, the House of Ruth, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network and the Project Sisters Clinic.