NORTH HAVERHILL — Three people who interacted with a Dartmouth College student who said she had been raped at a fraternity house each told a Grafton County jury on Monday how the woman had reached out to them in the minutes and hours following the alleged sexual assault.

The testimony came on the second day of the trial of Kyle Clampitt, 26, a 2020 Dartmouth graduate who faces 12 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. The accuser was an 18-year-old freshman at the time of the alleged rape on the rooftop of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity in the early morning hours of April 24, 2022.

The Valley News does not generally identify people who allege they are victims of sex crimes.

The key witness on Monday was Umair Shahbaz, who was a Dartmouth senior that fall and resident member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. According to his testimony, the woman approached him for help in the fraternity’s third floor hallway minutes after she had descended from the rooftop.

Shahbaz told the court he did not know the woman at the time but had seen her earlier that night socializing with Clampitt. He said she approached him in the hallway, passed her phone to him and asked that he help her contact a friend, another Dartmouth student.

Seeing that the woman was in distress, Shahbaz and the alleged victim went into a bathroom, where she told him she had just been assaulted on the rooftop, he testified.

Once inside the bathroom, the woman began crying, Shahbaz said, and told him how Clampitt had invited her up to the rooftop to “see something cool.”

Once on the rooftop Clampitt assaulted her “twelve times,” Shahbaz quoted the woman telling him.

When they came out of the bathroom a few minutes later, Clampitt was standing outside and “looked uneasy,” Shahbaz testified.

Later that night, Shahbaz testified, he encountered Clampitt again in a fraternity hallway.

“He just asked me, well, quote, ‘Was that chick talking s about me?’ ” Shahbaz told the court.

“I said, ‘Dude, why are you so worried? Like, did you do anything wrong?’ He didn’t respond, but I said, ‘You should probably go home because all the alums left hours ago,’ ” said Shahbaz, who now works for an investment fund in Connecticut.

Shahbaz said after confiding in him, the woman eventually slept for a few hours on his couch. She then left alone and walked back to her dorm room in her socks, he said. The woman’s shoes later were found on the rooftop by another fraternity member.

Also testifying on Monday were two of the alleged victim’s friends, one a student at Dartmouth and the other a student at Duke University. Both related how the woman shared details of the alleged assault with them.

Later on the morning of April 24, the friend at Dartmouth accompanied the woman to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where she underwent a sexual assault medical examination by a specialized nurse.

Clampitt’s defense attorneys challenged parts of the testimony of each of Monday’s witnesses, leading some to acknowledge they did not know or recall certain details.

At one point, Richard Samdperil, one of Clampitt’s defense attorney, questioned why Shahbaz did not immediately report the alleged assault to authorities or seek medical help for the alleged victim.

Shahbaz maintained he was being a Good Samaritan.

“Someone approaches me for help, telling me they got raped in my fraternity where I live … I think most people in this room would probably do the same thing to make sure that she was safe,” he said.

Samdperil countered that under such circumstances the typical response would be to report a suspected crime.

“Isn’t that what most people would do when they encounter someone who is a victim of a violent crime?” Samdperil said.

Later, Shahbaz testified that he had not noticed the woman suffering any physical injuries.

“I was just trying to help her out,” he testified.

Contact John Lippman at jlippman@vnews.com.