Former MU basketball prospect to be in court Thursday
Jazsmin Halliburton
A former University of Missouri basketball prospect accused of sexual assault is set to be in the Boone County Courthouse for a preliminary hearing on Thursday.
Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A police report states the alleged assault happened in September at the Tiger Hotel in downtown Columbia when Asprilla was at the University of Missouri for a campus visit.
In a probable cause statement, the victim said she was drunk and with friends who met up with a group of men. Her friends “went to do something else,” and then she went to the Tiger Hotel with Asprilla and his group.
Asprilla allegedly asked the other men to leave so he could be alone with the victim, according to court documents. The victim rejected multiple advances and actions, but the victim stated that Asprilla sexually assaulted them more than once.
Asprilla is being charged as an adult after a petition was filed in juvenile court in January.
Asprilla will be at the Boone County Courthouse on Thursday at 9 a.m. before Judge Kimberly Shaw.