A freshman in management was charged with simple assault and indecent exposure Wednesday night after he was found naked and knocking books off the shelves on the ninth floor of D.H. Hill library.

According to Capt. Jon Barnwell, Campus Police found Seth Pace just after 11 p.m. without his clothes, “agitated and in an altered mental state.”

“It appears he may have been under the influence of some sort of drug,” Barnwell said.

According to Alex Stewart, a freshman in sports management, the naked man ran into the women’s restroom on the ninth floor when police arrived. Barnwell said the suspect was not aggressive toward Campus Police.

“I was passing the bookshelves and I heard all this noise. I turned and I see this white dude, butt-naked, he’s just tearing up bookshelves,” Stewart said. “It was crazy. I thought ‘Wow, is this guy crazy? Is he on drugs?'”

Stewart said a crowd of about 15 people stood by and watched the incident.

“He started coming up to us threatening to fight us,” Stewart said. “He asked [students] if they wanted to die, and then he continued wrecking bookshelves.”

[Warning: Partial nudity. Watch naked man wreck D.H. Hill Library shelves]

Cameron Winter, a senior in English and a library employee, said while he didn’t see the incident, he couldn’t miss the aftermath.

“It was about 1,400 [books] just from estimates,” Winter said. “He wasn’t doing it half-assed. It was all or nothing for this guy.”

According to Winter, fellow employees had to explain the source of the “knee-deep” book piles to him.

“I cleaned for about an hour. It’s going to take a while. It’ll take one or two days,” Winter said.

Barnwell said Pace was not arrested, but was taken to Rex Hospital to undergo medical evaluations.