EAGLE, Colo. – Kate Faber, the woman who accused Kobe Bryant of rape told police a flirtatious encounter quickly turned ugly when he grabbed her by the neck, bent her over a chair and attacked her from behind, repeatedly asking, ”You’re not going to tell anyone, right?”

The 19-year-old woman was raped after agreeing to go to Bryant’s suite at the resort where she worked, Eagle County Sheriff’s Detective Doug Winters testified Thursday at a preliminary hearing to determine whether Bryant will stand trial.

Winters described in graphic detail for a packed courtroom how the woman said she excitedly met the Los Angeles Lakers’ star in the lobby but left the hotel in tears after a vicious attack.

It began with a tour of the resort on June 30 that led to some flirting. She went back to Bryant’s room and showed him a tattoo on her back, then turned down his request to join him in the hot tub, Winters said.

Her shift at the front desk was ending and she wanted to go home, he said. ”She stated she was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable.”

She stood up to leave and Bryant gave her a hug that led to some consensual kissing, Winters said.

When she turned around to go, Bryant grabbed her by the neck from behind, pulled up her skirt and raped her against a chair, Winters said. She told investigators she told Bryant ”no” at least twice, before bursting into tears as the five-minute attack went on.

During and after the rape, he said, Bryant kept asking, ”You’re are not going to tell anyone, right?” She said she agreed at one point.

”She didn’t want him to commit more physical harm to her,” Winters said.

The woman said that Bryant forced her to kiss his penis after the attack, Winters testified. He said a nurse who examined the woman later at a hospital found injuries consistent with a sexual assault.

The prosecution presented photographs showing injuries to the victim, including one of a bruise on her jaw.

Defense attorney Pamela Mackey suggested Winters had no idea when the bruise occurred. He said a nurse told him it came during the attack.

As the detective testified, the 25-year-old Bryant stared at him stone-faced, occasionally clenching his jaw. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of a felony charge of sexual assault.

Legal experts had expected the defense to waive the hearing and head straight to trial rather than allow prosecutors to lay out their case publicly for the first time.

”The only reason the defense would choose to go ahead with a preliminary hearing when it doesn’t have to is it believes – given the minimal amount of evidence the prosecution is going to be putting on – it may gain more by cross-examining those witnesses,” said Stan Goldman, a professor at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

He suggested the defense may call witnesses to testify, a list that could include Bryant himself.

Judge Frederick Gannett, who said he would not rule Thursday on whether to proceed to trial, rejected defense requests to have the woman testify and to see her medical records. He also issued a gag order in the high-profile case.

The hearing began as hundreds of reporters and a handful of spectators gathered outside the courthouse to catch a glimpse of Bryant.

He arrived with his lawyers amid tight security in a caravan of three SUVs and said nothing to the crowd. He had to take off a necklace and was checked with metal detectors before walking into the courtroom.

Gannett had ordered Bryant to appear for a bond hearing even if the preliminary hearing was waived. He left the Hawaii training camp of the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday.

Bryant, free on $25,000 bond, was in Colorado in June to have knee surgery.

He has the right to go to trial within six months, but he could agree to push that back until later, perhaps after the NBA season ends early next summer.