Yesterday the court heard testimonies from friends who were with Tyrone Jones at Club Ante the night he is accused of raping and robbing a stripper from the club. It was the first time many of them had seen Jones since that night.
A number of them were in school in other areas of the country, and the group got together last December at the start of winter vacation.
Several of the group confirmed that the group of mostly men went to the Elephant Bar in Burlingame for drinks before heading over to Club Ante, where many of them drank more.
The group was attracted to the victim when the sexually explicit song, Freaky Tales, from the rap group, Too Short, came on and she began dancing on stage. After the song, the group moved back over to the bar, and she came over and began talking to them. One friend, who drove Jones to the club, remembers the victim talking to Jones alone for an hour afterwards, and that the conversation appeared "pleasant." Jones did not appear drunk, he said, but "There was something about him -- something funny about him."
Jones was "droggy," and "mellow," not his usual upbeat self. He said that close to closing time, he told Jones he wanted to go. "He went over to the bar to talk to the dancer, and came back and said she would give him a ride home. I asked, 'Are you sure?' -- something didn't feel right." Shortly afterwards, this friend left. By this time all Jones' other friends had also left, and that was the last any of them saw Jones or the dancer.
Jones' girlfriend, who has been with him for a year and a half, talked about her close relationship with him and called Jones her "best friend." Jones was there for her, she said, throughout some intensive medical problems.
She said she did not know that Jones was on parole at the time for two acts of second degree robbery. "He said he had made some mistakes in the past and that he just grew from it," she said.
Jones' friends cannot imagine him committing the acts he is charged with. After testifying in court, one friend told the Daily Journal that Jones was the kind of guy that gave everything to his girlfriend and was trying to get his life together.
"He was trying to get on his feet, he was in prison. He has a lot of common sense. He's the kind of person if you're going through hard times, he could say something to cheer you... A person that violates a woman that way don't deserve to live -- and that's not Tyrone."
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Thank you so much for sharing this and opening the space to what I hope will plant the seeds of discussion and action that can save lives.
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