A fraternity brother accused in the alleged gang rape of a young woman at Cornell University told campus police that he was too intoxicated to consent to sex with her, according to records. Matthew Ingalls portrayed himself as the victim during the encounter, adding another sharp twist to a case already filled with conflicting claims.

Ingalls is one of seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers at the center of the explosive Ivy League case. Records obtained by ABC News showed that he told Cornell University police he had consumed alcohol and ketamine and was too impaired to consent during the 2024 encounter.

His account suggested that Jane Doe, who was 20 years old at the time and is identified only by that name in court papers, assaulted him rather than the other way around. Doe has accused Ingalls and the other fraternity brothers of sexually assaulting her.

Ingalls previously was identified as the fraternity brother who used a group chat to summon others after another participant announced there was “free p—sy” available at the house, referring to Doe. Nearly 60 people were reportedly in the fraternity group chat.

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“Like you can walk in and whip it out,” Ingalls wrote in the chat. He followed that message with another invitation: “Boys come whip it out.”

Ingalls was also the fraternity brother who initially invited Doe to the house and proposed a threesome, according to the account in the lawsuit. The encounter allegedly developed into several fraternity brothers entering the room and taking turns having sex with her.

The young men are accused of supplying Doe with alcohol and ketamine during the encounter. She later claimed that she became incapacitated to the point that she could not consent to anything beyond what she had initially agreed to do.

Documents released by the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office showed that Ingalls allegedly fell asleep at one point during the sexual encounter. Another fraternity brother reportedly took his place before Ingalls later woke up and rejoined the activity.

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Neither Ingalls nor any of the six other young men has been criminally charged. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten previously said he did not believe there was enough evidence to warrant bringing a criminal case.

The situation changed after Doe filed a civil lawsuit last month detailing her allegations. Van Houten then announced that he was reopening an investigation based on what he described as new information contained in the lawsuit.

Ingalls’ reported statements to campus police are the latest complication in a case marked by contradictory accounts from those involved. Cornell documents showed that Doe initially assured Ingalls that everything they had done together was consensual.

Her view reportedly began changing during the following weeks as she continued thinking about the events of that night. Rumors also circulated around the campus, and other people suggested to her that she had been raped, an assessment she reportedly began to share.

Doe reported the incident as rape approximately three weeks later. During an interview with campus police, she said she was “100% confident I was raped,” but the statement police provided to the district attorney apparently omitted any allegation of rape.

That omission contributed to Van Houten’s initial decision not to pursue charges, along with statements indicating Doe had willingly consumed alcohol and drugs before the alleged assault. The competing accounts of her intoxication, however, did not end there.

Before going to police, Doe recorded a telephone conversation with Ingalls in which he said she had described herself as sober on the night in question. “You did tell me you were sober,” Ingalls said during the call obtained by ABC News. “You did, you said you hadn’t been anywhere.”

Doe rejected that account during the recorded conversation. She told Ingalls she was “100% sure” that his description was untrue and maintained that he “already knew” she was “10 shots deep” when she arrived at the fraternity house.

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The reopened investigation now follows the civil lawsuit and its newly presented details, while no criminal charges have been filed against Ingalls or the other six men. Ingalls’ contention that he was too intoxicated to consent adds yet another disputed claim to a case defined by clashing statements and contested memories.

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