In a tweet that evening, Ravi invited others with iChat to video chat him between 9:30 p.m. and midnight to watch because “it’s happening again.”
On March 5, Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Chris Schellhorn walked Huang through a series of texts she exchanged with Ravi on Sept. 21.
Huang, who attends Cornell University, asked Ravi if he had “really” seen Clementi “make out with some guy.” She said she learned about it from reading Ravi’s first tweet.
He responded, “Yeah omg molly saw it too. He was older and creepy and def(initely) from the internet.”
When she jokingly suggested that Clementi’s friend might be in Ravi’s bed after he told her Clementi had asked Ravi when he was coming home that night, Ravi responded, “I set my computer to alert me if anyone is in it when I’m not there. Lol.”
He continued the string of conversation by saying, “My webcam checks my bed. Haha. I got so creeped out after Sunday.”
And later, “Yeah, keep the gays away.”
That evening, she said, he texted her encouraging her to access video chat to watch the second intimate encounter.
“Do it for real. I have it pointed at his bed. And the monitor is off so he can’t see you,” Ravi wrote to her.
He told her he set up an automatic accept feature and had tested it and it worked.
When she replied that she would check it out, he warned her, “Be careful it could get nasty.”
Huang said Ravi then texted her, “Omfg people are having a viewing party with a bottle of bacardi and beer in this kids room for my roommate.”
She said that she messaged Ravi the next day to let him know she hadn’t attempted to view any footage but asked how it went. Huang said on the stand that she never intended to watch any live images because she had no interest.
Ravi told her that “it got messed up and didn’t work.”
On Sept. 23, she said Ravi texted her that Clementi had committed suicide. It was one of the few times Clementi’s death, which Ravi is not charged with causing or contributing to, came up in the trial.
When Huang asked Ravi if he knew why Clementi would kill himself, he responded, “No idea. He was quiet all the time and had no friends so I guess it makes sense.”
Last week, Wei testified that she agreed to keep Clementi’s intimate encounter a secret because it was so shocking to see the images—but that it wasn’t under wraps for long.
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