ISU student Cale Truhlsen, who was assaulted on Welch Avenue on Feb. 8, returned to his classes March 2, the Ames Tribune reported.

The sophomore in computer science was walking out of the 425 Welch apartment building the night of Feb. 8 when he heard a group of eight or nine men on the sidewalk make a comment to a woman who was also on the sidewalk.

The men, who witnesses described as white men in their 30s to early 40s dressed as “cowboys” in hats and cowboy boots, circled Truhlsen.

The 6-foot-9-inch, 230-pound student remembers saying he was not going to fight and shaking one of the men’s hand. The next thing he knew, he was hit from behind, a man on either side of him holding him down on the sidewalk while two others punched and kicked him.

Truhlsen recovered in the hospital from surgeries due to a hole in his small intestine, a broken nose, two black eyes and possible internal bleeding behind one eye until he return to school. 

The Ames Tribune reported that Ames Police have no updates on the case and no leads to the suspects.