At least five Claremont Colleges students were assaulted Monday night in three incidents on Pomona’s campus, college officials said Tuesday.

Four Pomona College students and one Pitzer College student were attacked by a group of three Pomona city residents, according to Pomona’s Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life Frank Bedoya.

One female Pomona student, who preferred to remain anonymous, reported being approached by the men outside of snack at Frary at about 10:30 p.m. Monday. The men told her they were there to promote their tattoo and piercing business and attempted to hand her their business card, but she ignored them and continued to Frary. She added that some of her friends, who were following not far behind her, were also approached and then followed to the bottom of the Frary steps.

Two Pomona students reported being punched outside of Frary by one of the three young men, who smelled of liquor and was harassing students.

James Brunswick PO ’10 and Kevin Yamazaki PO ’10, on their way to snack after a Kappa Delta fraternity meeting, said they were punched unexpectedly by the man as they were entering snack. Several witnesses corroborated the story, describing the attack as a “sucker punch.”

Both men were bloodied. Yamazaki lost half of his tooth, which was glued back in his mouth by a dentist the next day. Brunswick sustained lacerations on his lip.

Several members of Kappa Delta—including Matt Jevsevar PO ’11, James Lambert PO ’12, and Ross Tanaka PO ’11—confronted the men, two of whom started fighting with the group, according to Brunswick. Witnesses said a few of the students tackled one man to the ground and another into a hedge and beat them.

The men, one of whom was covered in his own vomit, then retreated toward Walker Wall and were followed and ultimately restrained by the crowd of some 25 students until police showed up and arrested them.

The Claremont Police Department (CPD) received a call at 10:33 p.m. from an unknown source “regarding a battery in progress,” said a police spokesman who declined to provide his given name. The department arrived at the scene within minutes.

When they arrived, Campus Safety had two men detained “who were accused by some students of hitting them,” the spokesman said.

The CPD officers then interviewed the involved parties and determined that the two subjects, Victor Martinez, 20, and Ernie Castro, 18, were involved in the battery.

The spokesman said some of the victims signed person’s arrest forms, and the two men were arrested and taken to the station. They will face charges of battery, although a court date has not been set.

The third man, who Brunswick said had not been fighting, escaped.

Bedoya said the CPD “is following up on that person.”

The other two incidents of assault occurred on the south end of Marston Quad and on the walkway in front of Bridges Auditorium, according to Bedoya. He said the victims are in okay condition and that nothing was stolen from them.