Kevin Nedrick is to return to court on September 22 on a rape charge. Police arrested him on Tuesday and charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, following allegations that he raped a woman in her campus apartment on Monday night.
His bail was drastically reduced from USD$75,000 to USD$1000 when he appeared in court in Minnesota today and he is expected to be released on bond by later tonight.
Reports said the police were called at about 1:15 am to the apartment where the woman told officers that she was at the location celebrating her roommate’s 21st birthday with friends on Monday night.
The woman said she went to aid her roommate, who was throwing up in the bathroom. When the woman left the bathroom, Nedrick pushed her into her bedroom and onto her bed.
Nedrick got on top of her as she said, “I don’t want to do this,” the complaint read. She estimated his weight at 300 pounds and suspected he “had a lot to drink.”
The assault continued until he let her check on her ailing roommate.
Machell Woolery, who coached him at Petersfield High School in Jamaica, said he was shocked by the news.
“I am most definitely (shocked). These are the things that I don’t expect from him,” Woolery told Sportsmax.TV on Wednesday, adding that he believed that Nedrick was getting to the level where he would have been expected to win a spot on Jamaica’s team to the Tokyo Olympics.
The disheartened coach said he speaks Nedrick at least once a week via a Whatsapp group chat. Social interactions and relations, Woolery said, are among the things they speak about each week.”