The Cornell 7 accuser’s brother and boyfriend were held at gunpoint by police after an anonymous 911 caller falsely reported an active shooter in her family home.

The alleged victim, referred to in court filings as Jane Doe, and her family have been ‘swatted’ multiple times after she filed a civil lawsuit against seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in late September of this year, the New Yorker reported. 

Doe’s lawsuit claims she was gang-raped by seven men at the Chi Phi frat house near Cornell’s Ithaca campus in upstate New York in October 2024. 

Swatting is when a nefarious 911 call is made with details of a fake crime that is intended to send armed cops to the home of an innocent person.

The October 6 swatting incident saw cops dispatched to Doe’s family home, located far away from Cornell University, after an anonymous male caller phoned 911, according to a police report obtained by the magazine.

The caller told dispatch he was inside the home, had shot his mother, turned the gun on his sister and was ‘going to kill her also,’ the report said.

When officers arrived on scene, a car with two young men, later identified as Doe’s brother and boyfriend, was seen pulling out of the driveway, police said.

The officer drew his gun and ordered the men to get out of the car and lay on the ground. They followed his instructions, the report said.

As the officer patted them down for weapons, Doe’s father allegedly started shouting: ‘I’m the DAD. WHAT’S GOING ON?’

He added: ‘My daughter is Jane Doe, the victim of the Cornell 7 rape case. We are being threatened by numerous unknown people.’  

Jane Doe alleged she was gang raped at the Chi Phi fraternity house on Cornell University’s campus on October 19, 2024

Doe claims she was gang raped and sexually exploited during a party at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024. All seven men have denied her allegations, saying either that their interactions were consensual or that they weren’t involved.

Officers went inside Doe’s family home and found that no one had been harmed, the report said.

According to police, while officers were still on scene, the swatter phoned 911 a second time to say he was armed with an AR-15, going to kill everyone in the residence and then kill himself.

The family has received multiple swatting calls in recent weeks. One caller reported that the house was on fire, while another threatened to bomb Doe’s residence, the police report said.

Doe has also received hundreds of harassing phone calls, texts and direct messages on social media in which her life has been threatened, her lawyer Thomas Giuffra told the New Yorker.

She has now taped pieces of paper over the windows of her family home in response to all the threats, he added.

In a civil lawsuit filed last month, Doe claims she was sexually assaulted by Chi Phi brother Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar on October 19, 2024.

They have all denied any wrongdoing and no criminal charges have been filed.  

Umar Matthew Ingalls and Jonathan Newell were expelled from the school after Jane Doe accused seven fraternity members of gang raping her in October 2024

One of the men allegedly posted to the fraternity’s active-members Snapchat group saying that there was ‘free p***y’ upstairs, referring to Doe, according to her civil lawsuit, which included an image of the purported chat

Doe claimed that the seven men engaged in sexual acts with her while she was ‘completely incapacitated’ and without her consent. She says the ordeal continued until she lost consciousness.

She said the men manipulated her into ingesting ketamine and alcohol, and that other men entered the room while she was incapacitated, the lawsuit said.

She also alleged that Snapchat messages describing her as sexually available to anyone at the house circulated among fraternity members without her knowledge.

Doe, then a 20-year-old sophomore, reported the alleged assault to Cornell police in November 2024, three weeks after she said it occurred.

Campus police investigated and sent a summary of their findings to the district attorney’s office, which relied on the information in deciding not to bring criminal charges. Separately, Cornell conducted a Title IX investigation.

The Chi Phi chapter was shut down, and the university has said it expelled some students and suspended others. 

Doe left Cornell a few months after reporting the alleged assault to campus police, Giuffra told the magazine.

She moved to New York City earlier this year in an attempt to ‘get a new phase going,’ but those plans did not work out, he said.

Doe left Cornell a few months after the alleged assault. She tried to pursue a life in New York City earlier this year, but has since moved back to her family home

She has since moved back in with her family and has surrounded herself with people who ‘aren’t afraid to protect her,’ the lawyer claimed.

She is working with a therapist and trying to imagine what her future now holds, he added. 

Cornell this week suspended all parties and social events at fraternity houses through the end of the 2026-27 academic year and implemented a new ‘zero tolerance’ policy that would immediately suspend chapters for violations.

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff, who announced the new measures Tuesday, also committed to working with New York State Police to allow its criminal investigators, who are independent of Cornell, to investigate sexual assault allegations.

Crimes reported on Cornell’s campus are generally investigated by campus police, a department that has full law enforcement powers but is controlled by the university.

The campus police force operates independently from municipal police in Ithaca, New York, where the university is located. 

Its officers investigated the 2024 gang rape allegations and presented their initial findings to the Tompkins County district attorney, who declined to prosecute within weeks of the woman making her first report to police.

Protesters rally in support of Doe at the Ithaca Commons on October 13, 2026

New York Governor Kathy Hochul removed the district attorney from the case this month after a public outcry over the lack of charges.

The investigation is now being led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, while Cornell has hired former Deputy US Attorney General Sally Yates to conduct an independent review of the university’s response.

Kotlikoff further committed to adding a case manager to the school’s Office of Civil Rights to help those who report sexual misconduct on the Cornell campus navigate the process.