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BATON ROUGE, La. – Days since Madison Brooks was allegedly sexually assaulted soon earlier she was fatally struck by a car, the men accused of crimes against the LSU sophomore person been released from jailhouse aft posting a combined $275,000 successful bond.
Brooks, 19, died aft she was struck by a car in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Jan. 15.
On Monday, investigators announced they had arrested the 4 males aft 2 of them allegedly raped an intoxicated Brooks – portion the different 2 were contiguous – wrong a conveyance earlier dropping her disconnected soon earlier she was struck.
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Visitation and ceremonial services for Brooks volition beryllium held successful Covington, Louisiana, connected Friday, Feb. 3.
Prosecutors person reportedly indicated they volition beryllium seeking upgraded charges against the suspects, whose attorneys person argued Brooks consented to the enactment and the suspects person not committed immoderate crimes.
Kris Perret, an lawyer who represents Reggie’s Bar, wherever the unfortunate and each 4 suspects allegedly were that night, said the concern proprietor "has afloat cooperated with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, Louisiana State Police and the East Baton Rouge ABC bureau since their archetypal requests for assistance successful their ongoing investigations and volition proceed to bash so."
"We look guardant to gathering with State ATC and East Baton Rouge ABC officials arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to code their concerns and to guarantee they person each of the implicit and close facts and each accusation they necessitate to implicit their investigation."
The pursuing accusation is based connected a operation of nationalist records, officials, instrumentality enforcement documents and astatine times, section reports.
10:06 p.m.
Video footage obtained by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s (EBRSO) bureau shows Brooks get astatine Reggie’s Bar successful Tigerland, located connected Bob Pettit Boulevard.
10:18 p.m.
Casen Carver and Kaivon Washington, some 18; Everett Lee, Washington’s 28-year-old uncle; and an unidentified 17-year-old are seen arriving astatine Reggie’s.
"Inside the bar, the unfortunate and Mr. Carsen’s (sic) 17-year-old juvenile person were seen hugging and dancing," states a EBRSO affidavit.
1 a.m.
According to the affidavit, Brooks is seen sitting connected a stool astatine Reggie's earlier she stands up to readjust her pants and "stumble[s] backwards."
"The unfortunate got backmost connected her feet with the assistance of 3 individuals," the papers states.
1:34 a.m.
Brooks falls portion lasting up from a seat adjacent the entranceway of Reggie’s bar, the affidavit states.
The 17-year-old fishy is past allegedly seen approaching Brooks. He "removed her shot cap," and Brooks is seen "grabbing" the teen’s manus "while getting backmost connected her feet," the papers alleges.
1:49 a.m.
Brooks and the 4 men permission Reggie’s Bar.
1:51 a.m.
Brooks and the quartet are seen "walking towards the determination of their parked vehicle."
1:54 a.m.
The radical past boards the vehicle.
2:50 a.m.
The EBRSO Traffic Division receives a telephone astir a fatal clang connected Burbank Drive, wherever Brooks is struck by a car. Brooks is rushed to an country hospital, but cannot beryllium saved.
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Brooks' sorority, Alpha Phi, confirms that she posthumously donated her kidneys and heart.
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The idiosyncratic who struck Brooks "was not impaired and contacted exigency unit immediately," an EBRSO spokesperson says. The operator does not look transgression charges.
Carver tells constabulary helium and the 3 others – Washington, Lee and the insignificant – went to the barroom connected Bob Pettit Boulevard, called Reggie’s, wherever they consumed alcohol, according to the affidavit.
He denies ever seeing Brooks anterior to that night.
Carver allegedly tells constabulary "the unfortunate walked with them" arsenic they were leaving the bar. He says Brooks "was precise unstable connected her feet, was not capable to support her balance, and was incapable to talk intelligibly without slurring her words."
Carver tells police Brooks "asked for a thrust home." "[H]e admitted that helium agreed to springiness her the thrust due to the fact that helium did not privation to permission her portion precise intoxicated and the barroom was closing."
He says helium asked the pistillate astir her friends, "but she was ‘drunk’ and did not cognize wherever her friends were," the affidavit states.
Carver drove the vehicle, portion Lee sat successful the beforehand rider seat, Carver tells police. Washington and the insignificant fishy sat successful the backmost spot with Brooks, according to the police documents.
He says helium "asked the unfortunate for her address, but she fell implicit and could not reply him."
The radical past drove "a abbreviated region to a adjacent street" wherever they parked, the affidavit states.
Carver tells constabulary helium "overheard his 17-year-old juvenile person arsenic helium asked the unfortunate 5 times, if she wanted to person enactment with him," the affidavit states. He allegedly says the unfortunate "gave verbal consent."
According to Carver, the 17-year-old fishy and Washington past took turns having enactment with Brooks. He tells constabulary she consented to Washington and the 17-year-old but added that "he thought the unfortunate was ‘drunker’ and her code was slurred," according to the affidavit.
Carver allegedly tells constabulary that helium and Lee were inactive successful the conveyance astatine the clip of the enactment acts, the affidavit states, but that "he felt uncomfortable and helium ‘hated it,’" the papers adds.
"During the interview, the co-defendant (Carver) was asked if the unfortunate was excessively impaired to consent to the intersexual intercourse and helium replied, ‘I guess,’" the papers continues.
A post-mortem introspection conducted astatine the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office shows the unfortunate "had injuries accordant with erstwhile intersexual assault." A urine illustration tests affirmative for THC.
Shane Evans, the main of investigations for the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office, aboriginal tells Fox News Digital Brooks died from "multiple traumatic injuries 2nd centrifugal conveyance collision vs. pedestrian."
Medical records amusement the victim’s humor intoxicant attraction astatine the clip of her decease was 0.319%.
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Carver, Washington and Lee are booked into East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office jail. Carver and Lee are charged with principles to third-degree rape.
Washington is charged with third-degree rape.
In Louisiana, third-degree rape involves intersexual intercourse that "is deemed to beryllium without the lawful consent of a victim," according to authorities law.
Attorneys for the suspects reason that video showed the unfortunate was not drunk to the constituent wherever she was incapable to consent to sex. Attorney Ronald Haley, who is representing 2 of the suspects, says video showed Brooks "willfully got into the car," according to FOX 8.
"Absolutely not a rape," Haley says. "Listen, this is simply a tragedy, definitely not a crime."
He acknowledges that Brooks appeared intoxicated, according to FOX 8.
"To the constituent nether the instrumentality that you accidental you’re successful a drunken stupor, to the constituent that you cannot lawfully springiness consent oregon reply questions? Absolutely that was not the case," helium says.
LSU President William F. Tate IV releases a connection successful which helium says Brooks "should not person been taken from america successful this way."
"What happened to her was evil, and our ineligible strategy volition parcel retired justice. Our corporate grief and outrage cannot beryllium enactment into specified words."
He adds: "So what tin we do? It is clip for action. One spot to people our attraction is the precise spot wherever this brushwood began."
All 3 big suspects look successful tribunal for enslaved hearings. Judge Brad Myers, from the 19th Judicial District, says helium personally had viewed footage related to the case, according to local quality presumption WAFB-TV.
Myers says helium watched a video of Brooks and the suspects from wrong the vehicle, according to the report. Myers said footage, which was allegedly taken by 1 of the 4 suspects, depicted the others "callously" laughing astatine Brooks, who appeared to slur arsenic she spoke, according to the report. The video reportedly did not see the alleged rape.
Myers besides says helium saw footage that showed Brooks wrong Reggie’s earlier successful the nighttime arsenic she struggled to basal up and could beryllium seen falling, WAFB reported. The justice reportedly says helium believes based connected the footage and different grounds that a transgression occurred.
Prosecutors denote they volition beryllium seeking to complaint the suspects with first-degree rape, though it was not wide if they planned to instrumentality the enactment against each oregon lone immoderate of the males, the outlet reported. Prosecutors are besides expected to empanel a expansive jury.
Myers orders Washington beryllium held connected $150,000 enslaved successful transportation with the third-degree rape charge. Carver and Lee, charged arsenic principles, are ordered held connected $50,000 and $75,000, respectively.
Carver and Lee station enslaved and are released that aforesaid day.
Ernest Legier Jr., commissioner of Louisiana Alcohol and Tobacco Control, tells Fox News Digital that authorities authorities issued an exigency suspension, an enactment that "immediately suspends the work oregon merchantability of alcoholic beverages."
"The Louisiana ATC is moving with Baton Rouge ABC and section instrumentality enforcement to analyse and stock grounds regarding caller incidents astatine this establishment," Legier Jr. says. "Due to the seriousness of the allegations and the imaginable menace to nationalist safety, an exigency suspension volition beryllium issued today."
Washington posts $150,000 enslaved and is released from jail.
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