Caleb Wilson, 20, Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band Member, Killed by Repeated Boxing-Glove Chest Punches in an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Hazing Ritual at a Baton Rouge Warehouse, Collapsed and Seized as the Group Falsely Reported a Basketball Collapse: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Chapter for Wrongful Death Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Statute With Its Civil-Penalty Provision, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in an Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Invoke Hazing Exclusions, We Preserve Warehouse Surveillance and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
When a Fraternity Hazing Ritual Kills a Student in Baton Rouge If you are reading this page, you may have just learned that what happened to your child, your sibling, your student, or your friend was not an accident at a basketball park. You may have learned that the story you were told first — the story about a young man collapsing during a pickup game — was a lie constructed in the hours after he died, while the people who knew the truth drove to a hospital, dropped him off, and left before anyone could ask a real question. You may be sitting with a police report that finally says what actually happened, and you may be wondering whether the criminal charges you see on the news are the only accountability available to your family. They are not. What happened in Baton Rouge on February 27, 2025, was a crime, and the criminal prosecution of the individuals who punched a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student in the chest until he collapsed, seized, and died is necessary and important. But criminal court is not the only courtroom. Louisiana built a civil remedy specifically for this kind of death — a law that lets families hold not just the individuals who threw the punches but the organization that created the culture, the chapter that ran the ritual, and the institution that was supposed to stop it. That civil remedy is what this page is about. We are a trial firm that takes…