PANAMA CITY — One of three college students charged with what authorities called a Spring Break “gang rape” was an acquaintance of the victim, according to arrest records.
George Davon Kennedy Jr., 21, was extradited to Bay County on Thursday and charged as the third man connected with a March sexual battery that involved multiple perpetrators. Kennedy, a student of Middle Tennessee University, was arrested April 15 in Georgia and held until authorities transported him to Bay County Jail.
He is the third suspect to be arrested after a video of the incident surfaced while officers investigated a Troy, Ala., shooting. Troy Police got the video off a cellphone of a person of interest in the shooting. The video depicted numerous men sexually assaulting the victim.
BCSO reported the woman was spending time on the Beach with several friends. She told investigators she made contact with a group of guys who gave her an unknown drink and later became “incapacitated, and in need of assistance of others to leave the beach on this day,” officers reported.
In the video, the victim feebly attempts to block the men’s hands but is restrained by her assailants. One man can be seen holding the victim’s arm and leg to restrict her movements. She later identified that man as Kennedy, whom she described as a friend of hers and accompanied her to the Beach, BCSO reported.
However, the two other men arrested in connection with the incident were not acquaintances, she told investigators. BCSO reported the victim has indicated she wanted to press charges against all involved.
Kennedy was charged as a principal to sexual battery by multiple perpetrators. Delonté Martistee, a 22-year-old senior from Bainbridge, Ga., and Ryan Calhoun, a 23-year-old sophomore from Mobile, Ala., were arrested in Alabama on April 9 in connection with the incident. Both men, students at Troy University, have been charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators.
Martistee and Calhoun are scheduled for arraignment May 12. They were held on a $50,000 bond, and Calhoun has since bonded out.
One more suspect in the video remains unidentified and at large. BCSO said they continue to actively searching for him.