Police are probing whether a death leap taken by a Rutgers student is related to a sex-taping scandal in which two Rutgers students secretly filmed another 18-year-old student’s sexual encounter and streamed it live on the Internet.
Law enforcement officials tell NBCNewYork that Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi committed suicide last Wednesday by leaping off the George Washington Bridge and that act of desperation may be linked to the scandal. Authorities are working to determine whether the suicide was also the victim of the sex-taping crime, sources said.
Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, and Molly Wei, of Princeton, both 18, face two counts of invasion of privacy for secretly placing a camera in the victim’s dorm room and streaming it live.
Authorities say Ravi, who was Clementi’s roommate, faces another two counts of invasion of privacy for allegedly trying to use the hidden camera to tape the same victim in a previous encounter two days before the second one hit the web.
