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• Beta Theta Pi agreement Timothy Piazza died February 4 afterwards a fraternity event.
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• Eighteen fraternity brothers accept been answerable in affiliation with his death; eight brothers accept been answerable with automatic manslaughter.
• Piazza’s parents alleged the analysis of their son “torture.”
The parents of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State green who died afterwards a hazing ritual in February, declared their son’s final hours as torture.
“What happened throughout the night was aloof absent-minded apathy for animal life,” Piazza’s father, Jim, told Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show. “They basically advised our son as roadkill and a rag doll,” he continued.
“Nobody should absorb that abundant alcohol,” Piazza’s mother, Evelyn, said. “That’s torture.”
Piazza’s parents said no one from Penn State’s administering or Beta Theta Pi, the fraternity that Piazza was pledging, abounding his funeral. A adumbrative for Penn State told the ancestors in beforehand that “he was abominably acceptable clumsy to appear the funeral,” admitting acuity did booty abode on campus, according to NBC.
Piazza’s final hours began at about 9 p.m. on February 2, aback he showed up to Beta Theta Pi for a agreement accident alleged “The Gauntlet,” an accident at which pledges drank at a alternation of booze stations and captivated four to bristles drinks in as little two minutes. Fourteen hours later, he was rushed to the hospital. He died the abutting day.
Eighteen associates of Beta Theta Pi, as able-bodied as the fraternity corporation, had accuse brought adjoin them Friday in affiliation with his death. Eight of the 18, forth with the corporation, accept been answerable with automatic manslaughter. The added charges, accretion added than 1,000, accommodate aggravated assault, analytical with evidence, hazing, and accouterment booze to minors.
The contest arch up to Piazza’s afterlife accept appear into clearer focus aback the accuse were filed. A surveillance camera in Beta Theta Pi’s abode captured best of the contest of February 2, and a grand-jury delineation has provided a minute-by-minute annual of “The Gauntlet” and the hours afore Piazza’s death.
9:06 p.m. – Piazza comes into appearance on the camera. Pledges activate activity through the gauntlet and bubbler at altered stations.
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9:21 p.m. – Piazza is handed a canteen of vodka to booze from, afresh shotguns a beer. Added stations are not arresting from the camera angles.
10:43 p.m. – A “visibly intoxicated” Piazza is apparent “staggering with abundant adversity walking.”
10:45 p.m. – Piazza staggers drunkenly against basement steps.
10:46 p.m. – On camera, a fraternity brother is arresting “pointing agitatedly” against the basement steps.
The abatement was not captured on camera, so a detective categorical it in the presentment.
In an account with the police, a fraternity brother said he saw Piazza laying “face-down at the basal of the steps.” In a argument bulletin that night at 11:53 p.m., the brother wrote: “Also Tim Piazza ability absolutely be a problem. He fell 15 anxiety bottomward a flight of stairs, hair-first, activity to charge help.”
The surveillance footage continued:
10:47 p.m. – Piazza is agitated admiral by four brothers. He appears unconscious, and there is a arresting abrasion on the larboard ancillary of his abdomen.
10:49 p.m. – Two brothers dump aqueous on his face.
11:14 p.m. – Kordel Davis, a anew accomplished brother, is apparent pointing agilely at Piazza. He testified afore the admirable lath that he saw Piazza “making awe-inspiring movements on the couch,” and Davis screamed at the added brothers to get help.
11:15 p.m. – Another brother shoves Davis into a wall. In his testimony, Davis said that he was told to leave and that the others had it beneath control.
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11:25 p.m. – The fraternity agreement adept slaps Piazza in his face three times.
1 a.m. – Brothers who were in the allowance saw Piazza barf and beat on the couch. They “backpack” Piazza, putting textbooks in a haversack in an attack to ensure he wouldn’t cycle assimilate his aback and asphyxiate on his vomit.
1:48 a.m. – Piazza rolls off the couch and assimilate the floor. Beta brothers angrily put him aback on the couch.
1:50 a.m. – A brother who appears to be balked strikes Piazza adamantine in the abdomen.
2:38 a.m. – Piazza afresh rolls to the floor.
3:22 a.m. – Piazza tries to achieve his anxiety but avalanche astern and hits his arch on the balk floor.
3:54 am – Piazza tries to angle afresh but avalanche facedown on the floor.
4:59 a.m. – Piazza staggers against the lobby, avalanche headfirst into an adamant railing, and acreage on a bean floor. Seconds later, he tries to go to the advanced aperture but avalanche headfirst into it.
5:15 a.m. – A Beta brother accomplish over to him afore accepting baptize and activity aback upstairs.
6:57 a.m. – A adolescent agreement annal video of Piazza on Snapchat.
7:18 a.m. – Piazza staggers against the basement steps. He is not apparent afresh on camera until several brothers and a agreement backpack him admiral again.
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A fraternity brother testified that he begin Piazza in the basement at 10 a.m. breath heavily, with claret on his face. He acquainted algid to the touch, with anemic bark and eyes half-opened.
For the abutting 42 minutes, surveillance shows Piazza lying benumbed while brothers befuddled him, covered him with a blanket, wiped his face, and attempted to dress him.
At 10:48 a.m., a fraternity brother alleged 911. Piazza was transported to the hospital and died February 4. He had a burst annoyance and astringent injuries to his head. A argumentative pathologist estimated his claret booze agreeable was amid 0.28 and 0.36 aback he fell.
Piazza’s afterlife has rocked Penn State’s Greek activity and abstract the dangers of bubbler ability and hazing on campus.
The university has banned Beta Theta Pi from campus for at atomic bristles years and potentially forever, awaiting after-effects of the investigation. Added Greek organizations are banned from recruiting new associates until 2018, and added banned accept been placed on the cardinal of amusing contest they can hold.
Penn State’s president, Eric Barron, appear a account calling the capacity in the delineation “heart-wrenching and incomprehensible.” He added that “the university association continues to ache his adverse death.”
Beta Theta Pi International disbanded its Penn State affiliate in February afterwards Piazza’s afterlife and said in a account to Business Insider that “early allegation of that analysis adumbrated that the behavior of several undergraduate associates was in absolute bucking of the International Fraternity’s expectations and accident administration policies, as able-bodied as the International Fraternity’s acceptability and charge to appearance development.”
The beat lath of The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s apprentice paper, additionally bidding affair and anger.
“Incomprehensible that a 19-year-old with his accomplished activity advanced of him could be animate one day, and gone the next,” it said. “Sickening that adolescent adults could be so absent-minded and accept such little account for animal life.”
The lath said it didn’t accept abundant had been done to ensure a agnate tragedy wouldn’t action in the future.
["533.5"]Penn State’s Interfraternity Council “failed to accouterment the basal account of Piazza’s afterlife – hazing,” it wrote.
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