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Jul 22, 2026

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…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson: Baton Rouge Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the National Fraternities, Local Chapters, and Premises Owners Behind Off-Campus Hazing Rituals, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Commotio Cordis From a Chest Blow at an Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual and the Failure of Every Person Present to Call 911, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, 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 Ritual Kills Your Child and No One Picks Up the Phone Your son went to college to build a future. He is never coming home. The people who killed him were the ones he trusted enough to call brothers — and when he collapsed on the floor of a warehouse in Baton Rouge, not one of them dialed 911. That fact is going to sit in your chest for the rest of your life. We cannot change it. What we can do is make sure the law does not let it stand quietly. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, working with local counsel where the rules require it. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. He is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit — a $10 million case against a fraternity and a university in Harris County, Texas. That case is not this one. But the architecture of a hazing death — the culture that made it possible, the organization that failed to stop it, the individuals who chose violence, and the silence that followed — is something we know how to dismantle in court. If your family is reading this at 2 a.m. in a house that still has your child’s backpack by the door, here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened to Caleb Wilson was not his…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Every Liable Party Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Pledge Witness Statements and Hospital Intake Records Before They Disappear, Commotio Cordis: How a Boxing-Glove Chest Blow With Minimal Visible Trauma Causes Lethal Cardiac Arrhythmia, the Failure to Call 911 and the False Basketball Cover Story as Independent Civil Claims, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Running From February 27, 2025, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Southern University Student Is Killed During Initiation You are reading this because someone you love is gone. A young man who should be in class right now, or at band practice, or studying for an engineering exam, is instead at the center of a criminal investigation and a news story that uses his name in headlines. The people who called themselves his brothers punched him in the chest until his heart stopped — and then they drove him to a hospital and lied about how he got there. You are angry, you are grieving, and you do not know what happens next. Here is what happens next. Louisiana gives a family whose child was killed by hazing the right to hold every person and every institution that caused that death accountable in civil court — not just the individual who threw the punches, but the fraternity that organized the ritual, the national organization that failed to stop it, and the university that failed to protect the student it enrolled. But Louisiana also gives that family one of the shortest deadlines in the nation to act. The clock started the day your loved one died, and it runs out fast. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, working with local counsel where required. We have built this page so that when you finish reading it, there is no follow-up search left to type — you…

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Jul 22, 2026

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When a Fraternity Hazing Ritual Kills: Louisiana Law, the Max Gruver Act, and Your Family’s Right to Hold Every Level Accountable If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, here is the first thing you need to know: Louisiana gives you one year. Not two years, not three — one year from the day your loved one died to file a civil wrongful death claim, and that clock is already running. The criminal arrests you are seeing on the news do not pause it. The police investigation does not pause it. And while you are grieving, the evidence that would prove what really happened — the surveillance video from the building where it happened, the cell phone messages between the people who were there, the witness memories of the other young men who stood in that room — is disappearing on its own schedule, not yours. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful death and hazing cases, working with local counsel where required. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity in Harris County, Texas — a case that has taught us exactly how these organizations defend themselves and exactly where their defenses crack. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Fatal Fraternity Hazing in Baton Rouge: A 20-Year-Old Southern University Student Punched With Boxing Gloves at an Off-Campus Warehouse Until He Seized and Collapsed With No 911 Call — Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Accountable in Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Warehouse Surveillance and Pledge Communications Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Grover Act and One-Year Prescriptive Period, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death: What Louisiana Law Allows Your Family to Do If you are reading this because someone you love was taken by a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, you are standing in a moment that is already running out of time. Louisiana gives families one year — not two, not five, one — to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started the day your loved one died, and it does not pause for grief, for funerals, for criminal proceedings, or for the shock of understanding what actually happened. Every day that passes is a day closer to the date when the courthouse door closes permanently. What happened to Caleb Wilson — a 20-year-old Southern University mechanical engineering major and trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — was not an accident. According to police, he was punched four times in the chest with boxing gloves during a fraternity pledging ritual at a warehouse off campus. He had a seizure and collapsed. Nobody called 911. Instead, his clothes were changed, he was loaded into a car, and the people who drove him to Baton Rouge General Medical Center told the hospital staff he had collapsed while playing basketball at a park. That was a lie. And that lie, combined with the failure to call for help while a young man was seizing on the ground, is not just a moral failing — it is evidence of the kind that changes everything in a courtroom. We…

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Jul 22, 2026

MSU Hazing Death of Phat Nguyen: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the University and the Property Owner Behind the Pi Alpha Phi Ritual That Forced Pledges to Drink to Blackout and Die to Be Reborn — One Did, of Alcohol Intoxication, Others Found Stripped Unconscious in the East Lansing Fraternity House Basement, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Preserve the Toxicology Reports, Fraternity Communications and University Disciplinary Records Before the Disbanded Chapter’s Evidence Vanishes, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act With Exemplary Damages for Willful and Wanton Hazing Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

East Lansing Fraternity Hazing Death: Michigan Law, Garrett’s Law, and the Civil Case After a Pledge Dies If you are reading this page, someone you love did not come home from college. A young man walked into a fraternity house in East Lansing as a pledge and never walked out. The police were called at 1:58 in the morning. By the time they arrived, he was already gone. The autopsy said alcohol intoxication. The people who were supposed to be his future brothers had spent the night pouring drinks into him until he blacked out — because that was the ritual. That was the point. You are in the worst moment a family can face, and you are probably being told things that are not true: that it was an accident, that he chose to drink, that no one could have seen this coming. We are here to tell you what the law actually says — in Michigan, in East Lansing, in Ingham County — and what it lets a family do when a fraternity turns a pledge night into a death sentence. This page is not a brochure. It is the work product of a trial team that handles hazing wrongful death cases. We are going to tell you exactly what Michigan’s anti-hazing law does, what the civil wrongful death statute allows, who can be held accountable, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do in the first days — because the evidence in…

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Jul 22, 2026

School Hazing & Sexual Assault of a Minor: When Son King, a Ursuline High School Football Player, Was Stripped, Sexually Assaulted, and Recorded by Teammates During a Nine-Day Camp Road Trip Through Florida, Alabama and Tennessee — Coaches Downplayed It as ‘Just Boys Being Boys,’ Administrators Allegedly Deleted the Evidence — Attorney911 Holds the School and the Diocese Behind the Cover-Up, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Send Snapchat Preservation Letters Before the Auto-Delete Window Closes and Pursue Forensic Recovery of Deleted Social Media, Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Civil Remedy, Federal Child-Sexual-Exploitation Laws, Mandatory-Reporter Failures by School Personnel, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Youngstown School Hazing Sexual Assault: When the Adults Who Were Supposed to Protect Your Child Became the Cover-Up If you are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and your child has finally stopped pretending to sleep, you already know something no parent should have to learn. Your son told you what happened on that football trip — or you found out because someone else’s child let it slip, or because a video appeared on a phone, or because a coach called it “boys being boys” and your stomach dropped through the floor. You are sitting with a fact that changes everything: the people you trusted with your child — a school, a coaching staff, a diocese — failed him in the most profound way a child can be failed, and then some of them tried to make sure nobody ever found out. We are Attorney911. We litigate hazing cases. Right now, in Harris County, Texas, our managing partner Ralph Manginello is lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit seeking $10 million from a university and a fraternity for what was done to a young man under the banner of “tradition.” That case is in Texas. This case — the federal lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Ohio against Ursuline High School, its coaches, its administrators, and the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown — is in Ohio. We take hazing cases nationwide, working with local counsel admitted in the forum state when required. What we bring is…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Hazing Death at a Baton Rouge Warehouse: Repeated Chest Punches Killed a Southern University Pledge, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University That Failed to Protect Him, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance Footage, Fraternity Communications and Cell Records Before They Vanish, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Framework Where Criminal Convictions Serve as Prima Facie Civil Evidence and the Wrongful-Death Prescriptive Window Is Among the Nation’s Shortest, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened to Caleb Wilson and What His Family Can Do Now If your child died pledging a fraternity, you are not reading this page casually. You are sitting in a house that has a bedroom no one can walk into yet. You may have just buried a son, a brother, a grandson — a young man who left for college and came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive. And you are hearing two stories at once: the criminal case on the news, and a silence from the organizations that were supposed to protect him. We are going to tell you what the law actually says in Louisiana, what the evidence looks like right now, what the fraternity and the university are already doing to protect themselves, and what your family can still do to hold the right people accountable. You do not have to carry this alone, and you do not have to figure out the legal system at the worst moment of your life. That is what we do. In February 2025, a Southern University student named Caleb Wilson died after being punched repeatedly in the chest while pledging Omega Psi Phi fraternity. The pledging happened at an off-campus warehouse — a location chosen, as these locations always are, to keep the activity beyond the university’s direct line of sight. His parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit in September 2025 against the national fraternity, the local chapter, the university,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death at Southern University: Caleb Jayden Wilson, a 20-Year-Old ‘Human Jukebox’ Band Member and Mechanical Engineering Junior, Killed by Repeated Chest Blows at a Baton Rouge Warehouse — Fraternity Members Delayed 911, Gave False Information to Hospital Staff, and Abandoned Him — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in an Active $10M+ Hazing-Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapter, and the University Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage, Cell-Phone Records, and Group-Chat Data Before the Overwrite Cycles Erase Them, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions Govern the Civil Recovery, 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 Takes Your Child: The Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Lawsuit You are reading this at a kitchen table or in a car outside a courthouse, and the worst thing that can happen to a parent has already happened. Your son went off to college — a junior, a mechanical engineering student, a musician in a marching band that people drive across the state to hear — and he did not come home. He did not die in a car wreck or from an illness nobody could have stopped. He died because people he trusted, people who called him “brother,” punched him in the chest until his heart stopped, and then, when he collapsed, they did not call 911. They drove him to a hospital themselves, told the staff a story that was not true, and left him there alone. We are not going to pretend that words on a page can reach the depth of that loss. What we can do — and what this page exists to do — is tell you, in plain language, exactly what the law gives you, what the people who killed your son are already doing to protect themselves, and what happens in the days and months ahead if you decide to fight. The family of Caleb Jayden Wilson filed their lawsuit in the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish seven months after losing him. They named the national fraternity, two local chapters, the university, and twelve individual…

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Jul 22, 2026

Caleb Wilson Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Baton Rouge: Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Case Against Pi Kappa Phi, Pursues the National Fraternity Behind the 1990 Pledge Ban It Never Enforced and the University Whose Employees Were Present When a Blow to the Chest Stopped 20-Year-Old Caleb Wilson’s Heart During Underground Pledging — and Those Present Changed His Clothes and Abandoned Him at a Hospital Rather Than Calling for Help, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Cell Phone Records, Campus Surveillance and Fraternity Internal Documents Before the 30-Day CCTV Overwrite, Louisiana Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death Ruled Homicide: What It Means When a Coroner Says a Fraternity Killed Your Child You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loud. Maybe it has been weeks since that phone call, or maybe it has been months and the coroner’s ruling just came down and now the word “homicide” is sitting in your chest like a stone. Either way, you are here because your child went to college to learn mechanical engineering and play in the Human Jukebox marching band, and instead he came home in a way no parent should ever have to bury. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner did not call this an accident. The coroner called it what it is — a homicide, caused by cardiac arrest from a blow to the chest, delivered during an underground pledging ritual that was supposed to have been banned thirty-five years ago. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful death cases in Louisiana, working with local counsel where required, and we are writing this page for one person: the parent, the sibling, the family member who is searching at 2 a.m. for answers about what happened at Southern University and what can still be done about it. This page is not a news recap. It is a legal roadmap built from the specific facts of this case, the specific law of this state, and the specific evidence that is disappearing while…

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