Passerby Says Finley Stadium Rape Victim Was "Terrified"

  • Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A man who picked up a rape victim near Finley Stadium who frantically waved him down said she was "shaking, breathing really hard, terrified I guess you'd say."

Jeffrey Brown was the first witness in the trial of Dontavious Bryant in the courtroom of Judge Don Poole.

The second defendant, Deacon Williams, reached a plea deal on Friday and was given a 10-year prison sentence.

Bryant was 18 and Williams 16 at the time of the attack on Oct. 12, 2012.

The jury heard the 911 call made by Mr. Brown after he drove the victim to the nearby PSC Metals on W. 20th Street.

The dispatcher several times asked him to try to calm down the sobbing woman and to urge her to take deep breaths.

The Chickamauga, Ga., resident, who was on his way to work on Amnicola Highway, said, "A lady flagged me down. She was standing out in the middle of the road jumping up and down and waving her arms.

"She told me she had been raped."

Mr. Brown said it was still dark at the time he came upon her around 6 a.m.

The dispatcher asked him to try to find out details of the attack. She said she had been raped by two black males on bicycles. She said they were "super young." She said one had on a yellow coat and the other a dark hoodie. She said one had dreadlocks.

Officer Darryl Slaughter said when he arrived at PSC Metals the rape victim was "crying. It was hard for her to breathe. She was traumatized. She had been through something pretty severe."

The jury heard the entire hour and a half encounter of the officer and the woman as he questioned her about what had happened.

At one time she asked to call her husband.

She sobbingly told him on the phone, "I've been raped."

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