Newly released Cornell fraternity bodycam footage shows a student accused of sexually assaulting a woman being told he was banned from the university campus following an investigation into an alleged attack in October 2024.
The student’s identity is obscured in the video, in which a Cornell police officer informs him that he is barred from “any of the grounds owned, operated, maintained by Cornell University” under the terms of his suspension.
The footage was released alongside audio of conversations between the alleged victim, identified only as Jane Doe, and Chi Phi fraternity member Matthew Ingalls in the days after the incident.
In one recorded phone call, Ingalls tells Ms Doe: “You did tell me you were sober, by the way.” She disputes his account, saying he already knew she was “10 shots deep” when he and six other men allegedly sexually assaulted her at the fraternity house.
“If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” she tells him in a message.
Ms Doe also says she spent time in an emergency department and underwent therapy after the alleged assault, describing “so much damage on my body and my brain”. Ingalls denies wrongdoing in the conversation, saying she had convinced him she was not intoxicated and “hadn’t been anywhere” that night.
The audio includes a discussion about how Ms Doe and Ingalls ended up in a threesome at the house. She says she does not remember parts of the evening, while Ingalls gives his account of events.
He says they danced for “maybe like three to five minutes” before he asked her to have sex, and claimed she agreed. Ingalls then says they could not decide whom else to invite, so he approached another man on the dancefloor before taking him upstairs.
Ms Doe alleges that other Chi Phi members subsequently joined them in the room. In a civil lawsuit, she claims a message was posted in the fraternity’s active-members Snapchat group referring to her as “free p***y”.
She tells Ingalls that she remembers four men being on the bed at one point, with others standing around them. He replies: “I have racked my brain for this mystery. You know, it’s possible that both of us, like, remember this and it’s not true.”
Ms Doe rejects that explanation, saying she remembers looking up and thinking: “That is too many people.”
The other fraternity members named in her lawsuit are Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar. None has been arrested or charged with a crime in connection with the lawsuit.
