[Whitfield:] Who's next? That's the question in Durham, North Carolina, where two members of the Duke University lacrosse team stand accused of raping a woman at a party. And the D.A. says he's not done yet. Our Alina Cho has the very latest.
[Alina Cho, Cnn Correspondent:] The D.A. says he is working to identify the third assailant in this case and that he hopes to bring that third suspect to justice. Sources close to the case have told us the name of the third lacrosse player the D.A. is targeting, but we are not releasing the name at this time. Meanwhile, friends and neighbors of the two suspects already charged in this case say there is no way they committed this crime. [voice-over] Far away from the Duke campus, those who know the two lacrosse players are coming out to support them. Nineteen-year- old Collin Finnerty is from Garden City, New York.
[Unidentified Male:] He's a good kid. He's absolutely I mean, any family would love to have a kid like him.
[Cho:] Finnerty was a two-year letterman at Chaminade High School. Jack Moran was his lacrosse coach.
[Jack Moran, Chaminade High School Lacrosse Coach:] He always met my expectations, and I never had a problem with him as player or as a student.
[Cho:] Back when Finnerty was a student there, he was No. 7. At Duke, the sophomore had family ties. His brother is a senior there. Classmates say he and teammate Reade Seligmann would never commit rape.
[Aaina Agarwal, Friend Of The Players:] I just know these boys to be kind and amazing people who wouldn't even be capable of thinking something like this, let alone participating in it.
[Cho:] But this is not the first time Finnerty has been in trouble. In November, he and two friends were arrested in Washington, D.C., charged with assaulting a man outside a Georgetown hotel. Twenty-year-old Reade Seligmann has no prior criminal record. He's a sophomore from Essex Fells, New Jersey. In high school he was No. 4, known as a go-to guy who came through in the clutch. When it came time to decide where to go to college, a friend said Seligmann chose Duke over Harvard and Princeton. The head master of his high school said, quote, "I believe him innocent of the charges." Neighbors of Collin Finnerty say they stand behind him 100 percent.
[Unidentified Male:] The truth will come out, and I will bet my life on it. He's innocent. He's definitely innocent.
[Cho:] A Duke classmate who lives in the same dorm as the two suspects tells me that police last night thoroughly searched both of their rooms, but there is no word on what, if anything, they have found. The two students have been suspended pending the outcome of the case. Alina Cho, CNN, Durham, North Carolina.
[Whitfield:] So what are the suspects' families going through about now? Collin Finnerty's lawyer said it's hard for most people to imagine, but he told reporters today, one word sums it up.
[Bill Cotter, Finnerty's Defense Attorney:] Terrified. I mean this is awful. If any of you had received a call that said that your son or daughter was charged with a serious crime, and you had all the confidence in the world that he or she didn't do that, you'd be terrified. You'd be scared to death. Like I said earlier, this is a good, decent, tight family, and next to one of them dying, this is going to be probably the worst thing they ever go through.
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