New videos show FMU sex battery victim describe attack, suspect interrogation

New body camera video is shedding light on the moments after a student was sexually battered on the campus of Florida Memorial University earlier this year and after a suspect was arrested in the attack.

The attack happened back in January and set off an intense manhunt that ended in the arrest of the accused attacker, 30-year-old Steven Rivers.

The new videos show Rivers being questioned by officers and the victim speaking after the attack.

“I hear like a ‘psst, psst.’ And I looked up and turned around and I saw that there was a guy at the bus station,” the victim said in the footage. “He started like grabbing me and taking me to outside and to that wall…He grabbed my arms and pushed me.”

She said the suspect grabbed her phone and other items then assaulted her.

Police said surveillance footage showed the suspect jumping the perimeter fence to get to the victim.

The attack happened on Jan. 25 on the campus in Miami Gardens, leaving students and residents on edge.

Two days later, Rivers was arrested after Opa-locka Police said one of their sergeants got a tip from someone who lives in Miami Gardens about Rivers.

Previously released dashcam and body worn camera video showed authorities taking Rivers into custody in a neighborhood.

“Hey Rivers, come talk to me a second, man, you’ll be okay,” an officer says in one of the videos. “Get your hands out of your pockets, you’ll be okay. Stop right there, stop right there, put your hands up. Sir, get on the ground for us, get on the ground, you’ll be okay.”

New video showed Rivers handcuffed in the back of a squad car as he sits quietly, looks around and then goes to sleep.

Other video shows Rivers in a police interview room after officials said he requested female detectives for his interrogation.

“You said you feel more comfortable with ladies, now you got two ladies sitting in front of you,” one of them says to Rivers.

“That’s cause I like females, but still,” he says.

Investigators said Rivers’ DNA matched DNA they found on the student, and he was booked into jail on charges including sexual battery and robbery by sudden snatching.

He was also charged for allegedly trying to grab a female detective after he was taken into custody, which was also caught on camera.

Rivers remains jailed on a bond of a little over $500,000.