BGSU student’s alcohol-related hazing death ruled accident
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) The alcohol-related hazing death last month of a Bowling Green State University student has been ruled an accident.
The Lucas County Coroner’s office announced Tuesday that Stone Foltz, 20, died from alcohol poisoning following the hazing incident.
Authorities have said members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity gave pledges bottles of alcohol on March 4 and encouraged each to finish an entire bottle. They included Foltz, who died three days later.
Foltz, a sophomore who was a business major, was found unconscious by a roommate after members of the fraternity dropped him off at his apartment, according to an attorney for Foltz’s parents. He was put on life support and died after his family arranged for his organs to be donated.
Ole Miss student charged in frat hazing that injured pledge
JEFF AMY, Associated Press
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A University of Mississippi student faces aggravated assault charges after police said he sprayed cleaner into the mouth of a fraternity pledge during a hazing ritual, causing serious internal injuries.
Adam Peavy, a lawyer for the injured student, said the hazing took place at an Oct. 11 ceremony where pledges were supposed to receive fraternity pins at the Pi Kappa Alpha house in Oxford.
“He was blindfolded and poisoned,” Peavy said. “That s what happened.”
University police charged James Bowes Higgins with aggravated assault on Nov. 17.
A student who witnessed the incident told a university police officer that pledges were blindfolded with their neckties and made to sit in a hallway. Active members then “yelled, screamed, threw liquids and things” on the pledges, and made them squat against the wall while reciting phrases, a police report states.
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University police charged James Bowes Higgins with aggravated assault on Nov. 17.
A student who witnessed the incident told a university police officer that pledges were blindfolded with their neckties and made to sit in a hallway. Active members then “yelled, screamed, threw liquids and things” on the pledges, and made them squat against the wall while reciting phrases, a police report states.
The police report says Higgins, a fraternity member, “grabbed a bottle of bleach or surface cleaner and started spraying it on a few pledges. During this time, one of the pledges threw up from inhaling some of the substances in his mouth, and another one had to go to the hospital because the bleach got into his eyes.”