Documents offer harrowing timeline of deadly night at Penn State fraternity

[TexasTowelie]

Helped by surveillance footage, prosecutors painted a harrowing picture of the events inside a Penn State University fraternity in early February that led them to charge 18 members in the death of a pledge.

The video from cameras inside Beta Theta Pi, interviews with students and text messages allowed them to build a detailed timeline of what happened to Timothy Piazza — from his arrival for pledge acceptance night to his frat brothers' decision to call an ambulance for him the next morning.

The 19-year-old from Lebanon, N.J., drank a life-threatening amount of alcohol during a hazing ritual and then fell numerous times, a grand jury found. Fraternity members didn't call 911 until nearly 12 hours after his first fall, when Piazza was unconscious, the panel concluded.

He had severe head trauma and a shattered spleen and later died of traumatic brain injury.

Read more: http://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/12285978-74/documents-offer-harrowing-timeline-of-deadly-night-at-penn-state-fraternity

[democrank]

1. What a dangerous combination of

barbaric hazing, alcohol consumption, a warped sense of masculinity and lack of common decency. Hope everyone there who could have done something but didn't is charged.

[Skittles]

2. bunch of stupid assholes

I saw one student talking about how he really wanted to call 911, but they just wouldn't let him.....say what????? No doubt he had a phone in his hand.....WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Where were the adults? Where was supervision?

A bunch of drunken fools performing incompetent medical assessments
and lacking competence, empathy, sanity

[Fritz Walter]

4. The adults will be sitting in their jury boxes

The supervision will be done by corrections officers.

[JudyM]

5. Flipping channels last night during evening news: this was all FOX was reporting on, no Comey.

At least 1/2 hour around 7:15-7:45. It's a very sad situation, horrible for the kid's family, no question. But peculiar to get that much coverage on an otherwise big news day.