A Rutgers first-year reportedly committed suicide last week after his roommate used a webcam to secretly capture and broadcast video of him having “a sexual encounter” with another man in their dorm room.
The roommate, Dharun Ravi, is said to have made the video available for others to view online and then bragged about the incident on Twitter:
“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”
“Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again.”
On September 23 his roommate, who has not been publicly identified, reportedly jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge.
Ravi and his alleged accomplice Molly Wei have been charged with multiple counts of invasion of privacy, each of which carries a possible five-year prison term.
