Two college students have been arrested in the United States after allegedly gang raping an unconscious 19-year-old woman on a beach surrounded by hundreds of spring break partygoers who did nothing to stop the attack.

POLICE have arrested a third man for his alleged involvement in the horrific spring break gang rape of an unconsious 19-year-old on a Florida beach.

According to a release from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, police arrested George Davon Kennedy at 11am Tuesday (1am Wednesday AEDT), as authorities sniff out the suspects involved. It is believed another man remains on the loose.

Mr Kennedy was arrested in DeKalb County, Georgia, where his family resides.

“After developing information that George Davon Kennedy was the third suspect seen in the video of the gang rape, Bay County Sheriff’s Office investigators obtained a warrant for his arrest,” the statement reads.

Mr Kennedy is a student at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and has been arrested on a charge of principal to sexual assault by multiple perpetrators.

Police believe a fourth suspect was involved, but he will be difficult to identify due to the fact “the only part of him we can see is a hand”.

Three witnesses have come forward to police, but the “investigation is still being very actively worked”, Ruth Corley, public information officer at Bay County Sheriff’s Office, told news.com.au.

“We’re hopeful to get some [more] witnesses.”

‘ONE OF THE MOST REPULSIVE THINGS I’VE SEEN’

Yesterday, police made public the first partially blurred images from a video which allegedly shows a number of men raping the incapacitated woman on a beach chair in Panama City, sometime between March 10-12. The footage has been described by senior police as “one of the most disgusting, repulsive, sickening things” they’ve seen, warning this year’s spring break celebrations were on the “verge of getting out of control”.

Hundreds of partygoers stand by metres away, cheering, drinking and ignoring the attack going on in front of them. At least three girls can be seen standing and talking next to where the victim is being raped.

VICTIM ‘HAD NO IDEA IT HAPPENED’

The woman allegedly gang raped in front of hundreds of spring break revellers had no idea she had been attacked until recognising herself in photographs of the shocking incident.

Authorities released chilling details of the alleged gang rape of the unconscious 19-year-old on a Florida beach as they hunt at least one more suspect.

“She was passed out and given some type of drug,” Ruth Corley, public information officer at Bay County Sheriff’s Office, told news.com.au.

“Her friends had to drag her to her hotel room, she knows someone gave her a drink.

“She was willing to take the drink, they kept offering until someone agreed, she couldn’t fight back.”

“She was not conscious and had no idea it happened before she was contacted by us.

“We identified her using tattoos on her body and she came forward and said, ‘that’s me’.”

Authorities were then given the grim task of relaying the shocking events back to the victim.

“We sent out information with pictures of her tattoos and the lower part of her face so that she could recognise herself.

“She called us and said ‘that’s me’, we had to explain what happened.”

‘WILD ANIMALS PREYING ON A CARCASS’

Two students, Delonte’ Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were arrested on Friday after mobile phone footage was discovered in an unrelated shooting. They were charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators.

Martistee, a track star at Troy University, remains in custody while Calhoun is out on bond.

Police described the footage as like “wild animals preying on a carcass laying in the woods”.

‘WE HAD RAPES IN PORTA-POTTIES’

Assaults and violence are typical of the area at this time of year. According to Ms Corley, “we had rapes in porta-potties (portable toilets) last year, that’s just crazy.

“This year it’s just really right on the verge of getting out of control.”

Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said, “There’s a number of videos we’ve recovered with things similar to this. I can only imagine how many we haven’t recovered.”

Authorities are becoming overwhelmed by the surge in visitors, and say assaults like this are common.

“It’s going on a lot, with crowds of 10,000 people, cops are trying to maintain control but you can’t see through the crowd. It’s dangerous to go through the crowds, with the criminal element of thugs. We’re doing our best.

“When you advertise non-stop partying, anything goes. What’s concerning is the criminal element of it with the spring break crowd. They’re criminals, they assault revellers, steal and bring guns.”

‘THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE’

In just five weeks, 49 guns were confiscated by authorities, compared to just 9 last year.

Last month, 22-year-old David Jarmichael Daniels stormed a house party and opened fire with .40-calibre pistol. Seven people were shot, some multiple times, some in the head.

The victims were aged between 20 and 22.

“It was like Baghdad, like a war zone”, Corley described.

“There was blood everywhere, it finally exploded”.

During spring break, which occurs between February, March and stretches through April, up to six million young visitors party at Panama City Beach, dubbed “the Spring Break Capital of the World.”

Sheriff McKeithen condemned those who stood idly by while the young woman was attacked.

“There are hundred, hundreds of people standing there watching, looking, seeing, hearing what’s going on and yet our culture and our young people have got to the point where obviously this is acceptable,” he said.

— youngma@news.com.au