Lacrosse Team Investigated in N.Y. Rape Case

Law enforcement sources say at least four members of the men’s lacrosse team at St. John’s University in Queens raped a woman at a fraternity house, New York Newsday reported.

Jack Kaiser, the university’s athletic director, confirmed that members of the lacrosse team were being investigated, according to today’s editions of Newsday.

Richard Piperno, spokesman for the Queens district attorney’s office, and sex-crime police detectives and would not discuss the alleged gang rape.

However, one law enforcement source said the victim has identified at least four attackers, Newsday said.

Detectives were investigating whether other members of the team were “egging on” the alleged attackers, the source told Newsday.

“The St. John’s community is deeply concerned by the reported incident,” Martin J. Healy, a spokesman for St. John’s, said in a statement.