IU student remains in jail on felony rape charges

IU sophomore Hai “Howie” Yu, 19, faces two counts of rape, class B felonies, and one of criminal confinement, a class D felony, for a sexual assault at Foster Magee residence hall March 11.

Yu was stopped by Indianapolis Airport Police on March 12 and escorted to the Monroe County Jail by IU Police Department officers around 2:40 p.m.

He is still in jail with a bond of $250,000 surety and $1,000 cash. A bail review hearing is scheduled for today.

In a probable cause affidavit, IUPD investigative Sergeant Leslie Slone said she interviewed Yu, whose account of the evening contradicted campus video surveillance systems.

Around 3:30 a.m. March 11, IUPD officers responded to a medical assist call and found an unidentified, unresponsive female IU student who was lying partially naked outside a door of Foster Magee. The woman was transported to the Bloomington Hospital. According to the affidavit, she had multiple bruises on her body, a spleen injury, and a sexual assault examination indicated rape.

Slone wrote in the affidavit she was informed that a man, later identified as Yu, observed the woman as he was walking by. Slone later questioned Yu regarding the identity of the woman.

Yu, who is the Foster Residence Center representative to the 2009-10 IU Student Association Congress, told police that he found the woman lying in the grass near Foster Magee after the two of them received a sober ride together from a fraternity party to Foster.

Yu told police he then dragged the woman to a Magee door to help her.

At one point, Yu told investigators the woman was someone he “did not know well,” but at another point he said he knew her name.

The affidavit states that the Foster Magee camera system recorded images of Yu “dragging a female into the west side door of Magee.” The video showed the female clothed and “not moving under her own power.” Surveillance also showed Yu dragging the female out of the same door about an hour later, and the woman “had no clothes on from the waist down,” according to the affidavit.

The fraternity surveillance system also contained footage of Yu “dragging a woman across the north exterior deck of the fraternity.” Again, the woman was not moving on her own.

According to Slone’s affidavit, the woman in the fraternity footage appeared to be the same woman as in the Magee footage.

Yu’s account of the evening also contradicted that of the sober driver.

Yu said the woman “requested to be dropped off at Foster Harper circle drive.”
However, the affidavit shows that the fraternity’s sober driver remembered the woman being “completely limp” and unresponsive.

Yu declined multiple offers to call 911, explaining that he was friends with the woman and would take care of her, the driver told police.

Anyone with more information on this case can call IUPD at 812-855-4111.

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