Police report: The Yale conservative who committed a stabbing-suicide was also involved in a threesome

When Yale graduate and conservative activist Tyler Carlisle attacked his friend, Yale undergraduate Alexander Michaud, with a knife last May and then jumped to his death from a 9th-story window, Yale University was puzzled. But now that Gawker has obtained the police report from the New Haven Police Department, the details of the incident — and the police's "pretty strong sense" of Carlisle's motives — have become much clearer.

According to the report, the men "were engaged in a threesome with a female Yale undergraduate, whose attentions on Michaud apparently inspired Carlisle to stab his longtime friend in the neck and then kill himself." Michaud offered this statement to police:

Previously, the presence of the female at the scene of the crime had not been reported or associated with the case, and thus her name has been redacted. The incident happened at Carlisle's apartment on a street running through the center of campus, and was reportedly fueled by drinking.

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