Police report sheds new light on Treon Harris case

Garrett Pelican, WTLV 7:12 p.m. EDT October 22, 2014

Harris, who had been suspended on the heels of the allegations, has since been reinstated. He's expected to start for the Gators Saturday.(Photo: Randy Sartin, Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. New information surfaced Wednesday surrounding the investigation of a sexual assault complaint against Florida Gators quarterback Treon Harris, but it's still not completely clear what happened the night of the alleged incident.

Harris was accused of raping a female acquaintance Oct. 6, after she told investigators they'd had sex against her will in Harris' dorm after a night at the club the day before, according to incident reports released by the University of Florida Police Department. Three days later, the woman withdrew her complaint.

What has become clear is that Harris and other Gators football players were partying with the woman and others at Rain nightclub in Gainesville during the night leading up to the incident. Several witnesses, including friends of both, recalled seeing the two being very close that night, even kissing at one point, a police report said.

Marcus Maye, Latroy Pittman, Brian Poole and Keanu Neal, all teammates of Harris, recalled the group leaving the club about 2 a.m. and heading to Waffle House, but stopping at a Kangaroo gas station. At the gas station, Harris and the woman were either holding hands or walking arm-in-arm before they left in her car, witnesses told investigators.

Police said surveillance images confirmed the chain of events described by Maye, Neal, Pittman and Poole. But what exactly happened when the two split off from their friends and went back to Harris's dorm room depends on whom you ask.

The woman claims she lied down on Harris' bed because she was tired, but then he forced himself on her, refusing to climb off and ignoring her pleas for him to stop. "I don't want to have sex with you," she recalled saying that night, according to a police report. Harris felt like a "dead weight" on top of her, she told investigators.

Harris didn't see it that way. In his initial interview with police Oct. 5, he said it all started with a kiss and didn't recall her saying she didn't want to have sex. "We were talking, and she did, she start kissing, we kissing each other, and like it just happened," he told investigators, the report said. Asked to clarify what 'it' meant, Harris reportedly said, "We had sex."

About 7:36 p.m. the same day, Harris sent the woman a text, saying "Don't tell nobody bout nothing." As Harris explained it to police, the pair had agreed to keep their encounter quiet.

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Police report sheds new light on Treon Harris case