UNLV gunman Anthony Polito made sexual comment, unwanted trip offer to students while tenured professor at East Carolina University

Former students of the University of Nevada Las Vegas shooter are speaking out about their unsettling experiences while studying under him at another college — with one claiming he made sexual comments about her outfit while in class.

Kristin Marshburn, 28, said that while she was studying at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in Fall 2016, Anthony Polito made a bizarre remark while sitting in the front row of his business class.

“He said to me that if I wore a shirt that low cut for the rest of the semester, I’d be sure to get an A,” Marshburn told NBC News Tuesday.

“I remember their faces just being appalled.”

The former student said his “bold comment” shocked her since the class was small and mostly made up of men.

“They looked sad for me,” she said of the other students in Polito’s supply chain management course.

Disturbed by her professor’s sleazy comment, Marshburn immediately reported the incident to the business school’s dean.

Polito never returned to class after she reported him, Marshburn shared.

In January 2017, Polito resigned from his tenured associate professor position at ECU after working at the school since 2001, the university told NBC News.

It’s unclear if Polito left the position because of his comments toward Marshburn, who was in her junior year at the time.

Marshburn praised ECU for how they handled her complaint against Polito.

“East Carolina did an incredible job of making me feel safe, heard, believed,” she told the outlet.

Marshburn decided to come forward with her account of her former professor’s inappropriate comments to let other women know they should speak up if they feel mistreated by a person in a position of power.

“It’s not OK for our professors, or anyone, to make sexual comments, or about anything we’re wearing, the way that we look,” Marshburn stated.

Marshburn is the second woman to claim Polito — who targeted and killed three faculty members at UNLV on Dec 6. — made them feel uncomfortable when they were students.

On Thursday, a second woman revealed that he made unwanted contact through emails and texts to her for nearly an entire semester and would buy her gifts in his attempt to pursue her.

“I felt preyed upon,” Polito’s former student, who asked to remain anonymous, told NBC News on Thursday.

The 32-year-old Durham, North Carolina, woman said that she once viewed Polito as a mentor until he invited her to Las Vegas during her senior year in 2012.

“I think that’s about when I was like, ‘I have to cut this man off because he got the wrong idea,’” the woman told the outlet.

“It was just so bizarre.”

The former student never reported the professor to any school officials because he was a well-respected member of the facility on campus.

Another former student of Polito’s described him as an eccentric but well-liked professor while studying under him.

Josh Bryant, 32, who took two of Polito’s supply chain management classes in 2011, said he would wear suspenders and fancy cufflinks in class and often smoked Virginia Slims cigarettes.

Bryant shared he frequently spoke with his former professor after class and enjoyed their dialogue but viewed Polito as a narcissist obsessed with being idolized for his intellectual capabilities.

“He was soaked up in his own aura,” Bryant told the outlet.

“I could see how his need and desire to be more smart than his peers could quickly escalate to an unstable situation.”

On Polito’s personal website, the professor-turned-mass shooter labeled himself as “Dr. 160IQ” and boasted about being a member of Mensa — a high-IQ society that requires hopeful members to first score in the top 2% of a standardized test before being accepted, according to NBC News.

A Mensa spokesperson told the outlet that Polito joined in 1980, but his membership expired this year after failing to pay his dues.

Following the shooting at UNLV last Wednesday, police shared that Politio, 67, was amid financial hardships when he went on the targeted rampage.

“We know he applied numerous times for a job with several Nevada higher education institutions and was denied each time,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a Thursday press conference.

“We also know the suspect was struggling financially, as evidenced by when we served a search warrant on his apartment. There was a notice of eviction taped to the front door.”