Posted on March 26, 2006
HARRISONBURG — JMU freshman Eric Paul Gustafson, 19, was indicted by a Rockingham County Grand Jury on Thursday on a rape charge, according to a Friday Daily News-Record article.
The incident allegedly occurred in November in a JMU dorm room, according to the prosecutor in the case.
On Nov. 18, a young woman told JMU police she had been raped, according to Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard Claybrook, the prosecutor in the case. Claybrook said the woman, an acquaintance of Gustafson, filed the report soon after the alleged incident.
It is not known whether the young woman is a student at the university.
In the DN-R story, university spokesperson Don Egle said Gustafson is still enrolled as a JMU student.
After JMU campus police conducted an investigation and did not arrest Gustafson, authorities brought the charge by direct indictment.
According to Claybrook, Gustafson knows he is under investigation and does have an attorney. The DN-R story said a call to Gustafson’s attorney, Derrick Whetzel, was not returned.
