This photo was taken by Megan Rondini’s close friend at University Park Mall in Dallas a week or two before died. A junior at Southern Methodist University, Megan had transferred colleges after her claims of rape — by an influential, Alabama 34-year-old man — were unresolved.
By KATIE BAKER
BuzzFeed
Megan Rondini, the daughter of Mike and Cindy Rondini, grew up in Steiner Ranch and graduated from Vandegrift High School with honors. While she attended the University of Alabama on an honors scholarship, she reported that she was sexually assaulted on July 1, 2015 by T.J. Bunn Jr. She did everything she thought she was supposed to do in going to the hospital to be examined in the early hours of the morning and to the police station to file the report. But, Feb. 26, 2016, without closure to her drawn-out rape case, she ended up hanging herself.
Bunn is the son of an influential Tuscaloosa family.
July 1, 2015
Megan, who stood 5-foot-6 and around 130 pounds, went to the Innisfree Irish Pub on July 1, 2015. She had about five cups of beer.
Bunn, who maintains that the two had consensual sex, later told authorities he offered 20-year-old Megan a ride home because he and a friend saw her leaving downtown Tuscaloosa alone. Megan couldn’t remember how she ended up in Sweet T’s white Mercedes on the way to his mansion.
