--- description: Hayley King faces felony charges title: College Student Caught on Video Contaminating Roommates' Food image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # College Student Caught on Video Contaminating Roommates' Food by [Shamar Walters / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2015 12:28 PM CUT by [Shamar Walters / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Shamar Walters / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 5, 2015 12:28 PM CUT A college student is facing felony charges after a hidden camera allegedly showed her spitting and pouring cleaning fluid in her roommates’ food. The video — recorded on February 4 — appears to show University of South Carolina student Hayley King, 22, taking food belonging to her two roommates out of a refrigerator and contaminating it, [NBC affiliate WIS reported](http://www.wistv.com/story/28932665/caught-on-video-usc-student-allegedly-spitting-spraying-windex-on-roomates-food "undefined"). King’s roommates set up the camera after “multiple altercations” with the suspect caused them to fear what she was doing while they were not home, according to an incident report. Columbia Police accuse King of spitting in food and also pouring Windex on food, the incident report said. One of the victims told police she had actually eaten the tainted items. [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-caught-contaminating-rommates-food-video-police-n353751 "undefined") _Read next:_ [_351,000 People Die of Food Poisoning Globally Every Year_](http://time.com/3768003/351000-people-die-of-food-poisoning-globally-every-year/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3846804/university-south-carolina-felony-charges-roommate-food/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3846804/university-south-carolina-felony-charges-roommate-food/"},"headline":"College Student Caught on Video Contaminating Roommates' Food","datePublished":"2015-05-05T12:28:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:55:51.946Z","description":"Hayley King faces felony charges","url":"https://time.com/3846804/university-south-carolina-felony-charges-roommate-food/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shamar Walters / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3846804/university-south-carolina-felony-charges-roommate-food/","name":"College Student Caught on Video Contaminating Roommates' Food"}}]}] ```