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Four Charged in Rape of LSU Student Minutes Before She Was Fatally Hit by a Car

Four male suspects have been arrested in Louisiana on rape charges as police investigate the death of 19-year-old LSU sophomore Madison Brooks.

Brooks left Reggie’s Bar just off LSU camps with the suspects and was fatally hit by a car a few minutes later.

The 19-year-old had a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit to drive, had sex with two of the suspects, and was then left to wander the streets in a drunken stupor before she was killed by the car.

The four men – Kaivon Washington (18), Casen Carver (18), Everett Lee (28), and an unnamed 17-year-old turned themselves in during the course of an investigation by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department.

Washington and the unnamed minor were charged with one count each of principal to third-degree rape. (Third-degree rape is defined in Louisiana as “incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the act by reason of a stupor or abnormal condition of mind” due to intoxication).

Carver and Lee are accused of being present during the assaults but not participating in the alleged rape.

According to statements from the accused, Brooks was “very unstable on her feet” and was “unable to speak without slurring her words.”

The 17-year-old had sex with Carver in a car before Washington entered the car. According to Carver, Washington asked Brooks several times if she wanted to have sex, and she answered in the affirmative before Washington engaged in sex with her.

But a person that intoxicated can not consent – and all four present seemed to be more than aware that she was beyond intoxicated.

The four dropped her off at a subdivision near where she was killed. Legal representatives for the men say that while it was clear she was intoxicated, it was not clear that she could not consent.