Myrtle Beach police have charged a man in connection with a nude woman being thrown from a second-floor hotel balcony Monday evening.
Cody James Epley, 17, was charged with first-degree assault, according to police. Epley was at the Myrtle Beach jail Monday night.
Myrtle Beach Police Sgt. Dave Cooke said witnesses told officers they saw a man throwing the woman over the balcony at the Sea Dunes Hotel, 605 S. Ocean Blvd.
The 18-year-old West Virginia woman was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center.
She told police she had been sexually assaulted, Cooke said.
The victim appeared to be intoxicated, he said.
It was not clear Monday if the woman knew Epley.
Candace Baker said she and her husband, Justin Baker, were walking along the boulevard when they heard screaming and saw a woman struggling with a man on the hotel balcony.
Within seconds, the couple, in the area on their honeymoon, saw the man throw the woman over the balcony.
"I thought, 'Wow. What happened here,'"? said Candace Baker, from Liberty, Ind.
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