PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — A Middle Tennessee State University student was arrested in the case of an alleged spring break gang rape that was videotaped on a crowded stretch of Panama City Beach the Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
George Davon Kennedy was arrested on Tuesday.
“After developing information that George Davon Kennedy was the third suspect seen in the video of the gang rape, BCSO Investigators obtained a warrant for his arrest,” according to a news release.
Investigators discovered that Kennedy had family in DeKalb County, Georgia, and reached out to the sheriff’s office there.
Deputies in DeKalb, in the Atlanta area, tracked down Kennedy and arrested him on a charge of sexual assault by multiple perpetrators, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said.
Kennedy is from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and has been a student at MTSU, the sheriff’s office said.
Previously, Ryan Calhoun and Delonte Martistee were arrested and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators.
Calhoun was released Saturday after posting $50,000 bond; Martistee remains in Bay County Jail, a county deputy said.
Troy University in Alabama said the two are students and have been “placed on temporary suspension from school per the university’s standards of conduct and disciplinary procedures. Martistee, a member of the track and field team, has also been removed from the team.”
Martistee is represented by a public defender.
Calhoun’s legal representation is unclear.
No public statement has been made on either’s behalf.