A University of Central Missouri (UCM) freshman reported an incident in which his roommate threatened him for being gay, but both students were given letters of discipline, Fox 4 Kansas City reported.

Alex Worthley, an 18-year-old freshman at UCM from Sedalia, said the roommate threatened him with a knife because he did not like gay people.

"He was like, 'I do have a knife and I'll use it if I have to,'" said Worthley, who at one point asked the roommate to turn down his music. "And that's when he repeated that and he was like 'I don't like gay people.'"

Worthley reported the threat to the school's Office of Student Housing and, soon after, the two were in separate dorm rooms. However, Worthley said he was shocked to receive a disciplinary letter just like his former roommate had.

"[The letter] made it feel like because I'm gay that it was my fault that those threats were made," said Worthley. "It never said what I specifically did wrong to make him say these things."

According to the letter, obtained by Fox 4, the school felt as though Worthley provoked his roommate in some way to warrant the threat.

"There seems to be a strong possibility that some of your own actions and comments were part of the reason this situation escalated from jesting to threatening," Worthley's disciplinary letter read.

UCM spokesman Jeff Murphy issued a statement to Fox 4 stating the school would not comment on the conflict between its two students and that they are "confident in our existing procedures, but will review this matter."

According to Worthley, his former roommate told school officials he did not want to be paired with a gay student.

"That would've just solved the whole thing, I wouldn't have had to have been with him," said Worthley, who is now alone in a dorm room.

He is currently appealing his disciplinary letter to the Office of Student Housing, asking it be taken off his student record.