University of South Carolina women’s basketball star Ashlyn Watkins has been arrested on assault and kidnapping charges.
Watkins is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC)
On Saturday, Aug. 31, the baller was taken into custody in Columbia, South Carolina after an unidentified woman claimed the she was “forcefully grabbing her face, pulling her arms and pushing.”
The victim says Watkins picked forcibly picked her and and “grabbed the victim’s head and forced her to walk down the hall, thus controlling her movement while preventing her from leaving.”
Eventually, she was able to break free and pulled a fire album to alert local law enforcement officers and fire officials. She was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Attorney and state representative Todd Rutherford issued a statement following the arrest.
“We just ask for patience as we unpack what happened two nights ago and we firmly believe when all the facts come out this will simply be a misunderstanding. And she maintains her innocence throughout this entire process,” Rutherford said via WIS News 10.
