Grand jury clears former Louisville basketball player in rape case

By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A Kentucky grand jury said on Wednesday it would not seek charges against a former University of Louisville basketball player and two other men who were accused of raping and sodomizing two women at an off-campus apartment. Chris Jones, a senior guard on the team, was arrested in February and accused by police along with Jalen Tilford and Tyvon Walker of forcing the women to engage in intercourse and other sex acts. Jones was dismissed from the Louisville basketball team for violating curfew the night of the alleged incident. Tilford and Walker were not students at the university.

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