East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office has accused four men of directly participating in or witnessing an alleged sexual assault of a very impaired and unable-to-consent Brooks before dropping her off on a dark side of the roadway where she would later be fatally injured.

Brooks and the four suspects met at Reggie’s Bar in Baton Rouge on January 14. Footage from the bar shows Brooks falling over several times, stumbling and struggling to stand in front of at least one of the suspects before they left the bar together, according to an arrest warrant.

The two defendants proceeded to allegedly rape Brooks in the car while two other men sat in the front seats.

Brooks was unable to tell them where she lived and the men dropped her off in a subdivision.

While standing in a dark portion of the roadway around 3 am on January 15, Brooks was hit by a vehicle and died hours later in the hospital.

Her blood alcohol level was 0.319% at the time of her death…indicating that she was severely inebriated and was 4 times the legal limit…

Brooks’ death strikes a campus community that has faced enormous scrutiny over alcohol-related deaths and sexual assault and harassment, including the 2017 death of our client, LSU student and fraternity pledge Max Gruver, who died from alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking at his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He had been hazed and forced to drink hard alcohol.

Gruver’s blood-alcohol level was .495, six times the legal limit to drive.