TAMPA, Fla. — Three men are facing hate-crime–related allegations after police say they disrupted a Muslim student prayer session at the University of South Florida, prompting fear among students and new security measures on campus.

“We thought that we would get our heads kicked in,” Ayaan Khan, a senior at the University of South Florida with the Muslim Students Association, said.

USF Police said the men interrupted a Tuesday morning prayer gathering on the top level of the Collins Boulevard parking garage. “They crossed the line,” Joseph Maurer with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said during a news conference earlier this week.

“We can’t see them and they’re just yelling in our ears, phones in our faces,” Ayaan said. Regarding the suspects, "they were just stomping around

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