Photo shows two college students, Delonte Martistee, left, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, right, who were charged in a sexual attack on a Florida beach in March. (Photo: Bay County Sheriff’s Office)
Two college students were arrested and charged Friday in the spring break gang rape case that has sparked outrage in two states and is growing nationwide. Now, PPD has confirmed that police are searching for two more suspects in connection with the attack.
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office Delonte Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were arrested and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators after sexually attacking a woman on a Florida beach in broad daylight filled with spring breaker, who did nothing to stop the attack.
The two men were students at Troy University in Alabama, but have only been placed on temporary suspension.
“As soon as it became formal that they were going to be arrested, we immediately placed them on temporary suspension,” Troy University senior vice chancellor Walter Givhan said.
The attack was recorded on cellphone video, which was taken sometime between March 10 and March 12 in Panama City behind Spinnaker Beach Club located at 8795 Thomas Drive. Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said at a press conference that officials learned of the attack when police in Troy, Alabama discovered the video while investigating an unrelated shooting. They alerted authorities in Florida shortly after, who have reviewed multiple videos capturing the attack.
Mug shots of Delonte Martistee, left, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, right. (Photo: Bay County Sheriff’s Office)
“This is not the first video we’ve recovered, it’s not the second video, it’s not the third video,” McKeithen said. “There’s a number of videos we’ve recovered with things similar to this and I can only imagine how many we haven’t recovered.”
McKeithen described the rapists in the first video as “wild animals preying on a carcass laying in the woods” perpetrating the “most disgusting, sickening thing” he had ever seen. Several men can be seen surrounding an incapacitated woman on a beach chair.
“This is happening in broad daylight with hundreds of people seeing and hearing what is happening, and they are more concerned about spilling their beer than somebody being raped,” he said. The sheriff said he expected investigators will make additional arrests.
The victim told officers that she thought she had been drugged at the time and did not remember the incident well enough to report it.
“She knows something happened, but she doesn’t know what happened,” McKeithen said Friday.
Martistee and Calhoun were being taken Friday to Panama City for a court hearing, and it was unclear Saturday whether they had defense attorneys.
The sheriff did not release any more information about the two other men wanted in connection with the gang rape. However, Calhoun is now out on bond while Martistee remains in custody. PPD could not immediately reach them for comment. They are due back in court next month.
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Thugs destined for prison. Where is their fathers and mothers? Probably will soon be saying that their "Babies" are innocent and it is the White Mans fault. Wonder if Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louey Farakon or the BIG Mouth in the White House will be shouting how this is all the fault of Black Victimization. When is it going to be a time in America for us ALL to move on...and call Thugs what they are...and punish them as such by ALL.
Why not just say you are racist u pink soft punani. Where are there mom and dad? 23 year olds on Spring Break guess we should ask the victim that too? Ridiculous. Either you are stupid or ignorant pick one.
to bad it wasn't you getting raped ass hole
I have deleted the last comment. And will delete the user and blacklist them if they move from the realm of discussion to mindless vocab. I don't even care about name-calling and most profanity, but talking like Harry Reid does not advance the conversation. Take it to the Daily Beast. They need the hits more than we do.
And of course we all know that rape never happens in white communities. Hey Einstein, do you move your lips while you read? I suspect that you do.
Just keep ignoring the problem Ace. I'm sure it will get better.
Consider for a moment 'Ace', that you might be the biggest part of the problem.
Since EVERYTHING is about race these days, what race was the victim?
The victim's race isn't supposed to matter but I'm curious too. Assuming she's white, it only matters in the sense that it gives hate groups and race baiters an opportunity to perpetuate a Southern stereotype as exemplified by RoscoeBonifitucci's brainless comment (see below). Yet whatever her ethnicity, her self-esteem will be crushed as more and more of her peers on campus come to realize who she is.
every dam were they go this is what happens bunch of uncivilized bastards
Who? Spring break adolescents or people of color?
I still can't see the actually rape. All I see is the crowd. Does someone have a better link?