Captain of Duke's Lacrosse Team Is Indicted

By SHAILA DEWAN in New York Times

"A grand jury returned an indictment today against a third lacrosse player in the rape case that has raised racial and class tensions between elite Duke University and its hometown.

Dave Forker Evans, a team captain who lived in the house where a black woman says she was sexually assaulted by three white players during a party in March, was charged with rape, first-degree sexual offense and kidnapping. Mr. Evans, who is from Washington, D.C., was indicted on the same charges as two of his fellow teammates, Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J., and Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y., who surrendered on April 18.read more