Crime & Safety

Son of Ray Lewis Indicted in Sex Assault

Sex charges were handed down to the child of a retired Baltimore Ravens player .

HORRY COUNTY, SC — The son of famed Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was indicted on a sex charge recently, according to reports.

Ray Anthony Lewis III, 20, was indicted on Aug. 11 in connection with an incident that occurred in the winter. Lewis attends Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., where the Conway Police Department charged him with third-degree criminal sexual conduct in January.

Lewis is accused of having nonconsensual sex at an off-campus apartment Jan. 23 with two women, one of them an 18-year-old who was physically/mentally incapacitated due to drugs or alcohol.

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Coastal Carolina has suspended Lewis "indefinitely" from the university's football team while the investigation continues, and the football coach said he was "sorry that Ray has this going on in his life," in a statement to The Sun News, a paper in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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The young man's father, Ray Lewis, played with the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 2012. Following the 2013 Super Bowl, Lewis retired and became an ESPN analyst, selling his home in Owings Mills.

Last year, he released a memoir—I Feel Like Going on: Life, Game and Glory—which includes information about his own history with the law; Ray Lewis faced murder charges in a 2000 stabbing outside an Atlanta nightclub. He was acquitted and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, which was a misdemeanor.

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