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Tennessee High School Basketball Trio Charged With Raping Teammate
NBC ^ | 12-30-2015 | Shamar Walters and Alexander Smith

Posted on 12/30/2015 7:13:01 AM PST by NRx

Three high school basketball players from Tennessee have been charged with raping and assaulting a teammate while staying in a rental cabin for a tournament, officials said late Tuesday.

The male victim was hospitalized and had to undergo surgery "due to the extent of his injuries" after the Dec. 23 incident, according to local police.

The three suspects and the victim were all juveniles from Ooltewah High School, in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Their basketball team was in Gatlinburg, around 100 miles to the northeast, for a tournament, Gatlinburg Police Department said in a statement.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: alexandersmith; basketball; hamiltoncounty; karlwilliams; ooltewahhigh; rape; shamarwalters; tennessee; thugculture
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Must be just about every black male in the school. From the census data, it looks like the town is 90% white.

I seem to recall that the town was a significant passenger rail junction with a cross platform transfer between the L&N and Southern. The platform may have been located outside of the ‘urban core’ of the town.


21 posted on 12/30/2015 7:41:32 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Boogieman

We don’t know if they were even there. It was a rented cabin outside the school. Not sure why this is even considered a school situation. Seems like it was a bunch of jerks having a party and it got out of hand at the party especially when alcohol is involved.


22 posted on 12/30/2015 7:42:24 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Tennessean4Bush
No kidding - to put a pool stick up there and break it is just torture. I bet the guy was bleeding out inside and that's why he collapsed the next day. I cannot imagine the pain he endured.

I think he's from a single parent home, and this obviously affects the parent's job, student's studies, etc. So unnecessary.

23 posted on 12/30/2015 7:45:25 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: NRx

Rape culture!

Where are the white feminists on this?

Oh, this is gay rape? Well let’s laugh at the victim and just pretend this didn’t happen.


24 posted on 12/30/2015 7:45:32 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: napscoordinator

“We don’t know if they were even there.”

If they weren’t there, then that is cause to charge them with a crime in itself. I don’t see any way the coaches are NOT responsible, in part, for this, if the children were all under their supervision.

Could a child ever get raped with a pool cue while they were under your supervision??? I know it wouldn’t be happening on my watch!


25 posted on 12/30/2015 7:47:52 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Any guesses at first glance which one got raped?


26 posted on 12/30/2015 8:01:24 AM PST by lewislynn ( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
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To: lewislynn

This is last year’s team. Reports are that the perps are upperclassmen, the victim is a freshman (this year). I figure the perps must be among those pictured.


27 posted on 12/30/2015 8:02:57 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: PAR35

Ooltewah is a very nice little town. Bedroom community for Chattanooga and a good place to live for people who work at VW and McKee Baking. I am not sure how they found that many black players. It’s a mostly white community. Virtually no crime.


28 posted on 12/30/2015 8:03:00 AM PST by Roses0508
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To: PGR88

No! Gay midnight assketball!


29 posted on 12/30/2015 8:04:39 AM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: napscoordinator
Not sure why this is even considered a school situation.

They were out of town participating in a high-school basketball tournament. As such, there should have been some adult supervision during their off-the-court time.

30 posted on 12/30/2015 8:05:05 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: PAR35

According to Wikipedia, the town is only 0.84% black. However, GreatSchools.com shows that the high school is 22% black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooltewah,_Tennessee#Demographics

http://www.greatschools.org/tennessee/ooltewah/387-Ooltewah-High-School/details/#Students


31 posted on 12/30/2015 8:12:03 AM PST by hout8475
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To: NRx
The Ooltewah team continues to play in the Best of Preps classic

The coaches, chaperones and the rest of the team failed miserably in preventing a situation like this to happen. If the rest of the team had no idea the three that did this were dangerous and never said a word...maybe missing the rest of the tournament might give them something to think about next time something like this starts to look like it could happen again sometime during the rest of their lives. I can't believe they stayed to keep playing!

32 posted on 12/30/2015 8:13:47 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Roses0508
Virtually no crime.
Not any more.
33 posted on 12/30/2015 8:27:49 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Responsibility2nd
If this was my boy - I’d be facing murder charges in the very near future.

Not if the assailants had "accidents"!

34 posted on 12/30/2015 9:14:02 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: hout8475

“According to Wikipedia, the town is only 0.84% black. However, GreatSchools.com shows that the high school is 22% black

Maybe they have one of those ridiculous busing programs for city kids that are supposed to help with diversity.

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35 posted on 12/30/2015 9:22:50 AM PST by Mears
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To: Responsibility2nd
If this was my boy - I’d be facing murder charges in the very near future.

They can charge and prosecute, but I understand it's very hard to convict without a body.

36 posted on 12/30/2015 9:25:33 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: NRx
A photo of the 2014-15 Ooltewah High Owls:


37 posted on 12/30/2015 9:36:23 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: NRx

Betcha fifty cents the victim was the sole white guy in that photo. If so, prosecute as a hate crime.


38 posted on 12/30/2015 9:50:12 AM PST by Company Man ("An armed society is a polite society." -- Robert Heinlein.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Maybe not. Ooltewah is a Chattanooga suburb located a few miles north of the city in a mostly white area. I’ll wait for their identities to come out.


39 posted on 12/30/2015 10:06:22 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Company Man

Or #32 in the back row.


40 posted on 12/30/2015 10:14:13 AM PST by beelzepug (2 Timothy 2:23 Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments...")
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