Baylor Bears Sexual Assault Case: 2 Former Players Arrested For Gang Rape Of Female Student In 2013

Another former Baylor University football player Shamycheal "Myke" Chatman was arrested Thursday by Houston, Texas, marshals for his involvement in a 2013 gang rape of a female student. Chatman's former teammate Tre'Von Armstead was also arrested Wednesday after he was indicted on three counts of sexual assault last week. However, it was not known whether Chatman and Armstead's charges were similar or where exactly Chatman was being held.

McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna said that the two former players were previously named as suspects in a police report related to the gang rape but were not charged until last week. Currently, authorities took action based on "newly discovered evidence and continued investigation," he said, Houston Chronicle reported.

Armstead and Chatman have been accused of sexually assaulting the female student on April 18, 2013. According to a lawsuit the woman filed against Baylor University, she was intoxicated after attending a party at a football player's apartment.

The woman has not been identified. She was a member of the Baylor Bruins, a group comprising mainly female students that hosts football recruits on campus visits. The woman did not file a lawsuit earlier or press charges against the players because she did not remember the incident properly. However, in the suit, she mentioned that she woke up with a bruise on her cheek and a bite mark on her neck and a physical feeling that indicated she had sex. The suit also mentioned that her roommate's boyfriend saw Armstead and Chatman coming out from her room and heard "what sounded like wrestling and a fist hitting someone" and a woman saying "no." The woman later filed a lawsuit, which said that Chatman had also assaulted a female athletic trainer, according to KWTX News.

Armstead was removed from the football team in 2015 and he later transferred to some other school during mid-term. Chatman later transferred to Sam Houston State University.

The school continues to struggle with sexual assault scandals and these two players became the latest ones to be arrested for the charges. Since 2011, there have been at least four gang rapes in which 19 footballers have been accused of sexual or physical assault. The woman, who accused Chatman and Armstead, alleged that the numbers might be way higher than what has been reported, according to Dallas News.