Standout GSU player Tony Kimbro arrested on rape charges

GA Daily News has confirmed a standout Georgia State University basketball player is facing rape charges.

He's the fourth GSU athlete to see the inside of the Fulton County Jail within the last two weeks.

Investigative reporter Aaron Diamant was at a jailhouse courtroom Friday expecting to see Tony Kimbro appear before a judge, but he waived his first appearance.

"I'm shocked," said sophomore Ashley Watson. "I didn't even know, maybe because finals were going on, but that's insane."

University police said the alleged attack against an acquaintance happened March 15 at the University Lofts on Edgewood Avenue in Downtown Atlanta.

"Any time you have a rape allegation, or a rape occurs on campus, we are conceed," said GSU Police Deputy Chief Carlton Mullis. "The fact that it was an athlete or not an athlete doesn't factor in for us."

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Mullis said the department's investigation began immediately.

"There just wasn't enough evidence to substantiate the charge of rape in our opinion," Mullis said.

Mullis told Diamant the district attoey agreed.

Diamant confirmed that's when the alleged victim applied for a warrant on her own. A judge signed it this week and Fulton County Marshals arrested Kimbro on Thursday.

"That's all part of the criminal justice system," Mullis said. "She was within her right to do that, and she did it."

Mullis wouldn't say what he felt the police case lacked.

"We don't want to tag someone with a rape charge if there's not the evidence to back it up," Mullis said.

Kimbro's arrest comes just one year after receiving the university's final basketball scholarship for the 2011-2012 school year.