According to the victims, the assailants entered the courtyard behind them.
"They started to follow us very closely once we entered the courtyard, but I assumed they were just students," the sophomore said.
The victims said they walked from the entrance of the courtyard, past the superintendent's office, to the area in front of the Mather tower.
While the first assailant approached the victims from the front, the two other attackers grabbed their purses from behind, the victims said.
"[One assailant] said, 'Excuse me, can we have your bags?'" the senior said.
"It was not until our bags started getting grabbed from behind that we realized we were getting mugged," the sophomore said.
The sophomore resisted until the senior warned her that one of the assailants had a knife.
"The knife was thin, at least a few inches long," the senior said. "[The assailant] held out the knife, to make sure that we saw it, and waved it," she said.
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