LSU scholar allegedly raped in ‘horrifying’ gunpoint assault inside freshman dorm: cops

A freshman scholar at Louisiana State College reported that she was allegedly lured right into a campus dorm’s lecture room – and raped at gunpoint, in keeping with college police.

Ronald White, 21, was booked on felony rape and firearm expenses after LSU police say they obtained a name a couple of rape at Spruce Corridor, a dorm house to roughly 400 freshmen college students on the Baton Rouge campus, at round 11:15 p.m. Friday, an arrest warrant obtained by The Publish exhibits.

White is just not a scholar on the faculty.

The unidentified sufferer instructed responding officers that the nightmare unfolded quickly after she arrived on the constructing earlier that evening to go to a buddy, who in some unspecified time in the future invited a male acquaintance to the room, in keeping with the paperwork.

That particular person introduced alongside White, in keeping with the warrant. 

Inside minutes of their arrival, White, of New Orleans, requested the sufferer to go together with him to a fourth-floor lecture room in order that they may give the opposite two some privateness, she instructed police. 

As soon as contained in the room, issues took a violent flip – with White pulling a black pistol from his waistband and forcing the lady to carry out oral intercourse on him, regardless of her repeatedly telling him no, paperwork present. 

Following the alleged assault, he instructed the sufferer to retrieve a paper towel. As an alternative, she went right down to the constructing’s foyer and requested somebody to contact campus police, in keeping with the warrant. 

When cops confirmed up, White ignored officers’ repeated instructions to cease contained in the foyer and sprinted out of the constructing — and was captured when police discovered him hiding beneath a automobile parked at a close-by intersection. 

Cops allegedly discovered seven grams of marijuana on White, however no gun. The purported firearm had nonetheless not been recovered by the point detectives submitted the warrant Monday. 

Following his arrest, White claimed the lady started touching him “voluntarily” and that the oral intercourse was consensual, paperwork present. 

The alleged predator was tossed behind bars and charged with first-degree rape, resisting an officer, drug possession and carrying a firearm on faculty property over the weekend. 

He was scheduled to seem in entrance of a decide Monday afternoon, although particulars of that listening to weren’t instantly clear. 

White was beforehand arrested in October 2024 for allegedly threatening to kill a Wendy’s worker with a gun on LSU’s campus, though the probe was “suspended” after the sufferer stopped cooperating.

By Monday, different Spruce Corridor residents had been in disbelief over the alleged rape on campus – telling native information outlet WAFB they didn’t obtain any notification from authorities concerning the incident. 

“I’m actually involved, that may be horrifying,” one feminine scholar instructed the outlet, including that she wished LSU officers had been “no less than saying one thing or placing one thing on the market about how that’s not proper or that they’re doing issues to repair it. 

“Or, I assume you’ll be able to’t repair that anymore, however issues to assist the lady and ensure accountability is taken,” she added. 

“I used to be anticipating an alert if one thing like that occurred,” a male scholar stated.

“I simply can’t consider it occurred within the dorm constructing I’m residing in.”