Rams release Tyrunn Walker

Tyrunn was partying with Sharper I see

IDK Walker had rape charges against him when I made this thread

As they say, you can take the boy out of the berry but.....




hopefully this doesn't end his career

Lafayette authorities are wrapping up an investigation into claims of sexual assault lodged by two women against Tyrunn Walker, a New Iberia native and former defensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints.

Investigators declined to discuss the inquiry, which has been underway since March, but they did release a bare-bones initial report Thursday that confirmed the existence of the probe without naming any suspects.

Lafayette Parish District Attorney Keith Stutes said detectives forwarded their investigative findings to his office June 15. He said it was too soon to say whether he will present the evidence to a grand jury. "It's presently being reviewed," he said in a telephone interview.

While the initial report includes almost no details, civil court filings requesting a restraining order name both Walker and another man, who is identified as Justin Williams, while offering graphic accounts of the allegations.

The two men are accused of forcing themselves on an unconscious woman at a hotel after a night of drinking at a nightclub here. The sexual assault was broken up when one of the women regained consciousness and pulled the men off her friend, the filings allege.

Walker's agent did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Two hours after his agent was offered the chance Thursday to address the allegations against his client, the Los Angeles Rams announced that they had released Walker, whom they had signed three months ago.

Williams couldn't immediately be reached. His address in civil court records is listed as "confidential."

The attack allegedly occurred during the early morning hours of Mardi Gras Day, Feb. 28, and involved two young women, 18 and 19, who were college students at the time. One of the women said in the court records that she suffered serious injuries, including vaginal tearing.

In an interview Thursday, the other woman said she believes she was drugged while drinking at a dance club. She described a harrowing ordeal, after which she debated for weeks whether to pursue charges. She said the police seemed skeptical of the allegations from the outset and asked her whether she knew what she was "getting herself into."

"I didn't want him to have his life ruined," the woman said of the 27-year-old Walker. After the attack, she added, "it took me a while to realize what was really going on with me. I wouldn't get out of bed."

In a separate interview Thursday, her friend described how "everything got really fuzzy" shortly after she received her fourth drink that night. "Somehow I had a drink in my hand and I have no idea where it came from," she said.

The Advocate does not identify victims of alleged sexual assaults.

A Lafayette Police Department spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The women said in their restraining order applications that, on the night of the attack, they were drinking at the NiteTown club and had 2½ or three drinks over the course of several hours. They described being separately approached by Walker and Williams and receiving drinks from the men.

A message left at the club was not immediately returned.

In the applications, both women describe feeling disoriented or having memory loss after taking drinks from the men. One woman wrote that she remembers riding in a black Range Rover to a Courtyard Marriott near the airport, which she later identified using the location services on her iPhone.

The hotel referred questions to an attorney, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The women sought temporary restraining orders against Walker and Williams in the 15th Judicial District Court.

Court records show a July hearing has been set for Williams on one of the TROs, while the petitions for one woman were dismissed against both men because of "petitioner's failure to appear and proceed."

One of the women alleged Walker and Williams both made her perform oral sex on them in the hotel parking lot after her friend had been taken up to a room, according to court records.

The same woman described in her filing not remembering much after taking a drink from Williams. She described blacking out at the hotel room, then coming to with both men engaged in sex acts with her. The woman noted that Williams later contacted her, while Walker did not.

Her friend described waking up to see Walker and Williams "surrounding" the other woman and Walker attempting to penetrate the woman. "I ripped him off of her while yelling at them to get off," she wrote.

Walker allegedly offered the women the hotel room for the night, saying he and Williams were leaving, but one of the women wrote that she demanded Walker take them to where they were staying for Mardi Gras.

Under National Football League policies, the allegations against Walker can subject him to league discipline.

The NFL's so-called personal conduct policy sets a baseline suspension of six games without pay for off-field behavior the league considers objectionable, whether or not it results in a conviction or even charges. The league enacted the rules in 2014 after a videotape surfaced showing ex-Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out a woman, now his wife, in a casino elevator.

Walker has long been a big name in New Iberia, not far from Lafayette. He helped Westgate High School win a state championship in basketball in 2008, and he was an all-state player for the football team there.

He signed with the Saints in 2012 as an undrafted free agent after stints at Tulsa and Jones County Junior College in Mississippi, where he was a junior-college All-America player.

He made the Saints' regular-season roster as a defensive lineman but didn't appear in any of the team's games that year — a sign that New Orleans was worried it would lose the 6-foot-3, 294-pound Walker to another organization if he was left on the club's practice squad.

Walker then played 23 regular-season games for the Saints over the next two seasons, registering 3 1/2 sacks, two pass break-ups and a forced fumble as a rotational player before New Orleans allowed him to sign with the Detroit Lions in 2015.

Walker's first season with the Lions was cut short after he broke his leg, and he left Detroit for Los Angeles after an unproductive campaign last year. Some writers projected him to fight for a backup spot on the Rams when he signed with them in March.

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