Tyrone Batts, now 26 years old, would later be arrested for the crime. He is accused of robbing three other women and attempting to rape one of them during the same weekend Walker was attacked. He was out on bond for an attempted rape that occurred in 2011.
Vanderbilt University has been under a microscope in recent weeks over a rape investigation involving several former football players, but a woman who was raped last year in a campus parking garage is speaking out to give hope to other survivors.
It is our policy at Channel 4 News to not identify rape victims, but Taylor Walker, 22, doesn’t mind being identified, because she says she did nothing wrong.
“It’s one of those things that you think you would only see in a movie,” Walker said.
But that night in February 2012 still plays over and over in her memory.
“When I think about it, it saddens me, but it’s not something that terrifies me,” Walker said.
Walker, then a Vanderbilt University junior, had been walking to her car on the 6th floor of a campus parking garage, so she could go enjoy a concert when her life would change forever.
“As soon as I got up to my car, I felt someone behind me. And I was attacked and pushed into my car, and experienced the worse moment of my life really,” she said. “But luckily I made it through. A lot of other people don’t end up living to see another day.”
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