NOBLES: Three U.S. Marines are accused of sexually assaulting a Tulane University student and her friend earlier this month in New Orleans. Eighteen year old Jared Anderson, 20 year old Alexander Davenport and 18 year old Antonio Landrum are all facing rape charges. CNN's Polo Sandoval joins us now with the latest. Polo, what can you tell us?</s>POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ryan, all of this originally started during an incident in mid-April that was quickly brought to the authorities by that Tulane University student and a friend who claim that they were sexually assaulted multiple times by those three men. As you mentioned, they're now identified as Alexander Davenport, Antonio Landrum, Jared Anderson. We've learned these three men are also Marines. Authorities investigating this. Some of the court documents we reviewed showed the initial sexual encounter was described as, quote, "consensual." But then things took a turn when one of these men allegedly forced himself on one of these two women just off Tulane University campus. Meantime, the Marine Corps certainly investigating, saying they're looking into the matter saying, quote, "The Marine Corps is aware of the alleged incident that may have referred Marines stationed here." Referring to Louisiana. "And we cannot comment on specific details due to the ongoing investigation by the Marine Corps Police Department and the New Orleans Police Department. We take all allegations of this nature seriously, and we are fully cooperating with authorities." So clearly here, we are seeing a response by the military branch that they worked for and, of course, by Tulane University. Even though this reportedly took place off campus, Ryan, they immediately sent out a message to their students as well about the incident.</s>NOBLES: Polo Sandoval, thank you for that report. We're going to take a quick break and be right back.
3 Marines Accused of Sexually Assaulting 2 College Students