BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Bond has been set at $150,000 for the man accused of raping a woman Friday inside a study room at Spruce Hall on LSU’s campus, jail records show.
LSU Police arrested Ronald White, 21, on charges of first-degree rape, resisting an officer, and carrying a firearm on school property.
According to an arrest warrant, LSU police officers received “a report of a sexual assault involving a victim who was allegedly forced to perform oral sex under threat of a firearm.”
Officers said as they arrived at Spruce Hall, White took off running westbound through the courtyard toward West Chimes Street but was found hiding under a vehicle near Iowa and West Chimes streets. Police said a firearm was never recovered.
The following day, LSU Police recovered a pistol.
“It was in his running path,“ Sgt. Marlon Hawkins with LSU Police said. ”The path that we chased him down, it was in the path that he ran, and we were able to locate it the next morning.”
The female told investigators she was visiting a friend at Spruce Hall when her friend invited a male acquaintance to the room. That individual arrived with another man, later identified as White, the report states.
White asked the female to go to a study room to give the other two some space, she told police. Inside the study room, White removed a black pistol from his waistband and placed it on a chair, the warrant states. White then allegedly forced the female to perform oral sex on him, the warrant states.
The female said after the alleged assault, she went to the first floor where she asked for LSU police to be contacted, investigators said.
During his interview, police said White admitted he and the female entered the study room but claimed the sex was consensual. White denied having a gun.
LSU students who live in Spruce Hall said they were not notified about the alleged rape.
“If there’s, like, anything, any crimes or anything I get a notification when that happens, but I didn’t get one for this,” Clay Gabriel, a resident of Spruce Hall said.
“It’s shocking... hearing that and now knowing,” Sienna McCracken another Spruce Hall resident said.
We took their concerns to LSU Police. Hawkins said because White was caught within ten minutes of him running off, no campus notification went out.
“There was no threat to campus safety at that time,” Hawkins said. “So that’s why an alert didn’t go out.”
Police said White is also a suspect in an Oct. 12, 2024, incident where he allegedly threatened to kill a Wendy’s employee with a firearm on the LSU campus. That investigation was suspended due to the alleged victim’s lack of cooperation, the warrant states.
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