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Ten other members of the Delta Chi fraternity chapter at VCU have also been charged in Adam Oakes’ February death.

Adam Oakes always said hello and goodbye with a hug, played basketball with his little cousins and competed in family-style fantasy football every fall, his family said.

Family members of Adam Oakes push for anti-hazing legislation Anna Chen, Contributing Writer  Family members of freshman Adam Oakes and a Virginia senator are backing an adoption of stronger anti-hazing legislation more than a month after Oakes’ death at an off-campus Delta Chi fraternity event. Both Courtney White, Adam Oakes’ cousin, and Eric Oakes, Adam Oakes’ father, are pushing to make hazing a felony. They aim to advocate for other states to amend similar laws in the future. “We can’t bring Adam back and we understand that, but we can protect another life from being lost by ...

Stone Foltz, 20, a sophomore at Bowling Green State University and member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, was allegedly hazed in an alcohol-related initiation event.

Adam Oakes’ parents meet with students during emotional vigil Vigil held for VCU student By Desiree Montilla and Brent Solomon | March 3, 2021 at 4:41 PM EST - Updated March 3 at 11:26 PM RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A group of VCU students met at Monroe Park on Wednesday to help put up a memorial dedicated to VCU freshman Adam Oakes, who was found dead in an off-campus house on Saturday morning. The students put up flowers and pictures of Adam around the fountain in the park as part of a memorial to honor Adam’s life in the community. “The kids are my comfort,” Linda Oa...