MOSCOW, Idaho — The University of Idaho football player who was arrested Saturday was caught on surveillance video entering and leaving the victim’s dorm after an alleged rape occurred there early Friday morning, documents said.
University of Idaho defensive back Kyree Curington, 18, was arrested Saturday and charged with rape. He made his first court appearance Monday morning. He later bonded out of the Latah County Jail and his bond was set at $75,000.
Documents said Curington met the victim at a bar in Pullman, Washington. The two went their separate ways and later the victim invited him to her dorm on the University of Idaho campus to sleep. The victim told police she had no intention of having sex with him.
Moscow police received a phone call from the victim’s mother around 5 a.m. saying her daughter may have been sexually assaulted, documents said. A few minutes later, they got another call saying the victim would be going to Gritman Medical Center, documents said.
Officers met the victim at the hospital where she explained in detail what happened.
She told the officer she met up with six friends who left the dorm around 12:30 a.m. and drove to a bar in Pullman. Documents said the victim ran into a man she met a week-and-a-half ago on social media named, ‘Ree,’ who was on the University of Idaho football team. He was later identified as Curington.
According to documents, the victim left the bar with her friends and drove back to Moscow. They went to a parking lot and smoked marijuana in a parked car, documents said. The victim said this was the first time she had used the drug and was feeling the effects. She then went back to her dorm room to get ready for bed, documents said.
The victim said she had been chatting with Curington through Snapchat and they had a conversation about him coming to her dorm room to sleep for the night, according to documents. She said she left her room, wearing her pajamas and wrapped in a blanket and walked to the basement to let Curington into her dorm wing, documents stated.
According to documents the victim said, “She was very direct with Curington about her intentions with him that she did not want to do anything with him, but he could sleep in the bed with her…She and Curington had a conversation about how they were just going to sleep and she also told him this was the first night she had tried marijuana….She had no intentions of doing anything with Curington.”
Documents said Curington got in her bed and eventually started grabbing at her and she told him no. He then started licking her neck and the victim tried to move away so he would stop, documents said.
According to documents the victim said, “Curington was on top of her and was smothering her face with his face, so she could not make a sound. Curington’s hands were down by her shorts and he was trying to untie them to take them off…she kept pushing Curington’s hand away and telling him no.”
Curington pulled his pants down, pulled the victim’s down as well and put on a condom, documents said. The victim said he then raped her, according to documents.
Documents show that the victim's roommate did hear the victim say, "No, I don't do that", before putting on noise-canceling headphones.
Documents said Curington told the victim that he needed to leave because his roommate locked himself out of their room. He told her he would text her in the morning and left the room, taking the used condom with him, documents said.
Officers later searched her dorm and found an open condom wrapper. They also collected underwear, her sheets, blanket and pillow cases, documents said.
The victims said she then started calling family and friends, who told her to go to the hospital, documents said.
Moscow police later contacted Curington where he denied going by the nickname ‘Ree,’ knowing the victim and having sex with her, documents said. Curington told police he had a meeting with his coach at 7:45 a.m. and before that he had been asleep in his dorm room, documents said.
Curington told the officer he went to a bar in Pullman with his roommate around 10 p.m. Thursday and left at 2:30 a.m., documents said. Curington said he and his roommate came back to their room and Walker had a female friend with him, documents stated. He said another woman came back to their room and he didn’t know who she was, but both women stayed in their dorm, documents said. He said his roommate took the girls home after he left to go talk to his coach.
Documents said surveillance video from the Willey Wing dorms caught the victim leaving her room at 3:30 a.m. in her pajamas with a fuzzy blanket. About five minutes later, she is seen walking with a man wearing a light grey/white “Santa Cruz” hoodie with the hood up, a grey Under Armor beanie hat on underneath the hood, and black athletic pants with white stripes down the legs, documents said. Officers noted in documents that this was exactly what Curington was wearing when they interviewed him at his dorm.
Documents said around 2 p.m. Friday, officers were trying to located Curington to ask him follow up questions. Detectives had called him and visited the Kibbie Dome to see if they could find him. Documents said officers later filed search warrant applications. Curington eventually reached out officers but refused to meet them in person without his mother being present, documents said. Documents said the officer refused to allow Curington’s mother to be a part of the interviews because he was an adult.
Documents said officers eventually got a search warrant for Curington’s apartment.
The University of Idaho released a statement to campus Monday saying,
"On Friday, Dec. 7 the University of Idaho became aware of an alleged incident the previous night between two U of I students in a residence hall. U of I football player Kyree Curington, a freshman, was arrested by the Moscow Police Department Saturday, Dec. 8, and charged with rape. He was suspended from the team. Kyree was released from the Latah County Jail on Sunday, Dec. 9. Criminal and university investigations are proceeding. In the interim, Kyree is living off campus and has been notified by the university not to return to campus unless he is accompanied by a university official. He has agreed to comply.
"The university is reviewing the incident, as it would any such case. university investigations look into violations of the Student Code of Conduct and are separate from Moscow Police Department criminal investigations. The university will continue to monitor this situation as the inquiries move forward and will make the best decisions possible to ensure the safety of all its students, staff and faculty as well as a fair process for those involved.
"The Moscow Police Department does not consider this situation to be high risk to the university community but continues to assess as the investigation proceeds."
It's not the first time Curington has made headlines. Video of Curington and two high school classmates getting into a fight on New Orlean's Bourboun Street in October 2017. At the time, Curington faced battery charges that were dropped in the spring.
A witness reportedly told authorities that the teens were defending themselves from other men who threw bottles at them and used racial slurs. Once Curington's charges were dismissed, he was then able to enroll at U of I and start practicing with the team.