— A lawsuit filed this week against the Town of Rolesville accuses the former police chief of sexual assault just days before he killed himself.

The suit says Chief Bobby Langston inappropriately touched an officer he supervised during a training seminar in Charlotte on March 25, 2017.

The Rolesville officer said he shared a hotel room with Langston, but the room had only one king-sized bed, the lawsuit says. The officer offered to sleep on the couch in the room, but after the two went out for dinner and drank, the chief offered to share the bed and to put a pillow between them, the suit says.

During the night, the officer says, Langston grabbed his genitals three times despite being told no.

According to the lawsuit, Langston apologized the next morning and told the officer he would resign.

Langston was found dead at his home on March 29, 2017.

The officer said he is embarrassed and humiliated by what happened to him, and the department has not released the results of its internal investigation, nor has it instituted any training for sexual harassment, the lawsuit states.

He is suing the town for lack of transparency and failure to conduct sexual harassment training.

Langston became a police officer in 1994 and served with the Wendell Police Department for 18 years before joining the Rolesville Police Department.

The Rolesville mayor and the town attorney declined to comment on pending litigation. WRAL News reached out to the accusing officer and his attorney but did not hear back.