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A Newly released surveillance video shows Louisiana State University student Madison Brooks leaving the bar with the four young men accused of raping her. before she was hit by a car causing her death.
Brooks ran across the street after the four men as they left Reggie’s Bar in East Baton Rouge. in the early morning hours of January 15, according to images obtained by the local station WAFB.
The 19-year-old student had met the group at the bar that night before getting into their car, where she was allegedly raped by two of the men, 18-year-old Kaivon Washington and an unidentified 17-year-old in the seat rear.
After the alleged assault, the men dropped Brooks off at a nearby subdivision along Burbank Drive, where a rideshare driver struck and killed her. around 3 a.m.
His cause of death was “multiple traumatic injuries in a second motor vehicle vs. pedestrian collision,” the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office said.
The rideshare driver remained on the scene and is not facing charges.
Investigators said Brooks had a blood alcohol content of 0.319%, nearly four times the legal limit.
Washington is behind bars on third-degree rape charges after a judge set his bail at $150,000. The 17-year-old, who was also charged with third-degree rape, is being held at a juvenile detention center.
The men dropped Brooks off at a nearby subdivision along Burbank Drive when they said she said she would call an Uber to take her home.
The other two men who were in the front of the car when Brooks was allegedly raped by his friends were also arrested.
Everett Lee, 28, and Casen Carver, 18, were charged with rape in principle to the third degree, meaning they witnessed the reported rape but did not participate.
Lee, who is Washington’s uncle, was released on $75,000 bond and Carver on $50,000 bond on Tuesday.
Washington and the 17-year-old claimed they took turns having consensual sex with Brooks.
The men also said Brooks had said she would call an Uber home when she was dropped off in the rain.
Loved ones of the college sophomore created a makeshift memorial for Brooks along the road where she was killed.
Her sorority sisters at Alpha Phi remembered her as a “cheerful, loving, and selfless friend.”
They said Brooks donated his heart and kidneys to save the lives of others.
LSU President William Tate called the student’s tragic end “evil.”
“She should not have been taken from us like this,” he said in a statement. Reggie’s bar’s liquor license was revoked after the men, nearly all of them underage, said the group had been drinking there that night.
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