NBC17 Exclusive Audio: Durham Police Radio Transmissions On Night Of Alleged Rape Radio Tapes Released From Night Of Alleged Duke Rape
Authorities have released tapes of police radio transmissions from the night a North Carolina Central student says she was raped by three members of the Duke lacrosse team.
The audio recording is of a conversation between a Durham police officer and police dispatcher the beginning at 12:58 a.m. March 14.
The black woman, a 27-year-old stripper and college student, told police she was raped and beaten by three white men around midnight at an off-campus party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team.
The audio recording begins when an officer responds to the scene of the party, a house on Buchanan Street. The officer tells the dispatcher that the alleged victim had apparently already left the scene.
The recording resumes when the same officer responds to another 911 call from a Kroger grocery store security guard at about 1:30 a.m. The guard called to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else's car.
The officer can then be heard giving the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person. When asked whether the woman needed medical help, the officer said, "She's breathing and appears to be fine. She's not in distress. She's just passed-out drunk."
Duke lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, both 20, currently face charges of rape and kidnapping in the case. District Attorney Mike Nifong and investigators believe Finnerty, Seligmann and one other unnamed player raped the woman.