Youth minister slaps horrified female reporter on the behind during live broadcast at 5km run - before Twitter sleuths track him down and race organizers ban him

A youth minister who slapped a female reporter on the behind while she delivered a live report during a combined half and full marathon has been banned from running in future events.  

Georgia man Tommy Callaway was seen on video running up behind reporter Alex Bozarjian of WSAV and taking the swipe during the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run.  

Bozarjian posted the video to Twitter, with the caption: 'To the man who smacked my butt on live TV this morning. You violated, objectified, and embarrassed me. No woman should EVER have to put up with this at work or anywhere!! Do better'. 

The video, which has more than 8 million views, prompted outraged Twitter sleuths to track Callaway down. 

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Alex Bozarjian of WSAV is seen in footage of her covering the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run on Saturday when a male runner comes up from behind her and slaps her in the butt

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Bozarjian is seen in the footage taken of her while covering the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run on Saturday looking stunned just moments after an unidentified runner smacked her on the butt without warning

Bozarjian fired back on Twitter her outrage over the incident

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Tommy Callaway (pictured above) was seen on video running up behind reporter Alex Bozarjian and taking the swipe

The sleuths used the runner's bib number to confirm his name, which they matched against online records.  

Callaway was identified as a youth church minister from Statesboro, according to social media posts and the MarathonInvestigation website.  

However, MarathonInvestigation claims that it verified his name through photos and a cross reference of his bib number.

DailyMail.com also confirmed that the number,  7553 in images of the runner, was listed under Callaway's name and his statistics at OnlineRaceResults. 

Callaway's images, according to social media users, were starting to disappear from various sites. 

But some online took screen grabs before Callaway's picture was gone for good. 

Tay, who uses the hashtag @howdtay on Twitter, took a screen grab of Callaway's LinkedIn page before his profile image was later removed. The page says that he works for Swedish Match, a smokeless tobacco company.

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Social media sleuths, as well as DailyMail.com, matched the runner's bib number against online records to identify the runner as Tommy Callaway

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Callaway was identified as a youth church minister from Statesboro, according to social media posts and the MarathonInvestigation website

Savannah Sports Council tweeted on Sunday that it was taking action against Callaway. 

'Yesterday at the Enmarket Savannah Bridge Run a reporter from WSAV was inappropriately touched by a registered participant of the event,' the organization Tweeted. 

'Our title sponsor, Enmarket and the Savannah Sports Council take this matter extremely seriously and fully condemn this individual’s actions,' the group said. 

'Yesterday afternoon we identified him and shared his information with the reporter and her station,' council added'.

'We will not tolerate behavior like this at a Savannah Sports Council event. We have made the decision to ban this individual from registering for all Savannah Sports Council owned races.'

Cops were aware of the incident and had spoken with Boozarjian, confirmed a spokeswoman from Savannah Police Department, reports the Washington Post. 

Investigators will proceed, depending on what the female reporter wants to do next.