According to a LehighValleyLive article from the time, Royal later learned from his roommate, Yukai Yang, that their room had been trashed. Royal’s mystery illness and the racist graffiti were not isolated incidents. Like Royal, Yang was a senior at Lehigh this spring. Royal told officers at that time he felt Mr. Yang his roommate was somehow responsible for the damages that had been done to his property,” the prosecutor told reporters. But Yang claimed that he was only intending to poison himself if he failed to do well on upcoming exams.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2018 10:47 UTC