It has been more than a month since a Fresno City College instructor allegedly attacked a student in the Old Administration Building. The student is moving on with her education, while the instructor remains on administrative leave. His arraignment is scheduled for June 19.

Brian Calhoun, 69, education instructor, had started that fateful morning, intending to teach his class at 11 a.m., but it was not to be.

According to the eyewitness statements from interviews and the police report, Calhoun physically assaulted 19-year-old journalism major Kevynn Gomez.

Several witnesses said that Calhoun was upset that Gomez’s class had run a few minutes over and disrupted the class’ midterm. Gomez said Calhoun was saying things like, “You guys need to get out of here” and “you’re not supposed to be here.”

Gomez and the other students in her class were forced to turn in their unfinished midterms and leave the classroom.

Gomez said that as she walked out of the classroom, she said, “Piss off a–hole” as she passed Calhoun and proceeded into the hallway. Calhoun followed her.

In the hallway, Calhoun confronted Gomez.

He pushed her against the wall and pressed his forearm across her chest to keep her motionless.

Gomez stands 5 feet tall, while Calhoun measures closer to 6 feet.

Gomez said she shouted at Calhoun to let her go, but he yelled at her, “Who do you think you are?” and “You can’t say that to me.”

Calhoun began to drag Gomez back into the classroom while she struggled to get away from him.

She tried to free herself from him. “I got one of my hands free and started hitting him,” Gomez said.

Then, Calhoun lifted her up and threw her onto the floor, Gomez said.

Several witnesses, including 19-year-old education major Cori Murphy, corroborate Gomez’s story. Murphy is in Calhoun’s class and was waiting for it to begin when the incident occurred.

“[Calhoun] kept asking for her name and then he grabbed [Gomez] by the wrist and tried to pull her inside the classroom,” Murphy said.  “[Gomez] kept telling [Calhoun] to let go and to stop touching her, and he didn’t [stop].”

Jacob Martinez, a 21-year-old liberal arts major and baseball player, was in the OAB to attend Calhoun’s class. He saw the altercation take place.

Martinez said Calhoun repeatedly walked in and out of Gomez’s class.

Although he didn’t hear what the argument was about, Martinez said he witnessed its escalation.

“Dr. Calhoun grabs her and throws her against the wall and has full wrist control on her,” Martinez said.  “She said ‘let go’ and he didn’t let go.”

Martinez said that’s when Gomez struck Calhoun in the face.

Martinez said that Calhoun threw Gomez into the ground, and that Gomez “defended herself” by kicking Calhoun in the leg area.

“After that, it looked like he was going to start smashing her on the ground, like physically beating her,” Martinez said.

That was when he and several others pulled Calhoun away from Gomez while others helped Gomez to her feet.

Calhoun’s camp paints a different picture.

Both Calhoun and his lawyer, Roger Nuttal, declined to be interviewed by the Rampage. Nuttal, however, told his client’s version of events to ABC30.

“So he’s waiting outside, and this female student comes out and proceeds to call him an ‘a–hole mother f—er,’” Nuttal said. “And then he gets slugged in the nose by her,” causing Calhoun’s nose to bleed.

“That’s not his style. [Attacking students.] He’s too smart for that. You don’t attack people; he’s not a violent person,” Nuttal said. “I question the veracity of that young woman, particularly in light of the manner in which she conducted herself.”

On top of Martinez’s and Murphy’s statements, at least six additional witnesses gave their statements to police. They corroborate Gomez’s version of events. There is a police report with Calhoun’s statement, however, the State Center Community College District has declined to release it to the public.

Although Calhoun has had a history with alcohol, being arrested for DUI in 2004, SCCCD Police Chief Bruce Hartman said that Calhoun was not given a sobriety test after being arrested and cited in the OAB on March 22.

Hartman said that Calhoun didn’t appear to be visibly intoxicated and didn’t feel the need to perform one.

Meanwhile, the semester is coming to an end and the students in Calhoun’s classes have had to adjust to new teachers.

“We had such a short time to get used to a new teacher, but she’s been really helpful,” Murphy said. “We’re just basically learning everything straight from our textbook instead of using [Calhoun’s] Power Points.”

Murphy’s substitute instructor, Loretta Aragon, has a different approach than the students were accustomed to, and allows the students time to break up into groups and work collaboratively.

“I like the visual aspect of Power Points, but I like being able to break up into groups and actually discuss things with other students,” Murphy said.

Aragon has enjoyed the experience of teaching the class while Calhoun is on leave.

“I was told where he sort of left off and then picked up from there,” she said.

Aragon is just one of the teachers the college assigned Calhoun’s classes.

“As a teacher, it is always tough to walk in in the middle of an ongoing class and step in behind another teacher,” Aragon said. “It’s not your class, so you have to work on developing the relationships with the students and the class and try to develop a positive learning climate in here when you just have a shorter amount of time to do that.”

It is unknown if Calhoun will return in the fall, or if FCC will look to distance itself from his actions and let him go.

Gomez says that Calhoun violated her rights by putting his hands on her, and her attorney, Catherine Campbell, agrees.

“It would be an understatement to say [Calhoun] overreacted,” Campbell said. “What [Calhoun] did was outrageous; almost unbelievable. It makes one question his mental health.”

Some have speculated that Gomez got what she had coming to her, but she disagrees.

“Although I did say something to him,” Gomez said, “he had no right to touch me.”