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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Alcohol-Poisoning Brain Injury Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, Where Danny Santulli Was Left Unable to Walk, Talk or See After a Phi Gamma Delta Pledge Father Reveal — We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization and the Local Chapter in Hazing Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hazing Claims, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Records Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Graduate, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute, Social Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to Minors and Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard, the Firm’s Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit and $5M+ TBI Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia Fraternity Hazing: Your Child’s Brain Injury Was Not Their Fault — and Missouri Law Gives You Tools You are reading this at an hour when no parent should be awake. Your son or daughter went to college — to the University of Missouri, to Columbia, to a place that was supposed to be the beginning of everything — and came back broken. Or did not come back at all. A fraternity “pledge father reveal” party. Alcohol forced on a freshman who wanted nothing more than to belong. A body that stopped breathing. A brain that stopped getting oxygen. And now a child who cannot walk, cannot talk, cannot see — who lives with you again, in a room that was supposed to be empty, because the people who were supposed to be his brothers let him die on the inside while his heart kept beating. We are not going to tell you it will be okay. We are going to tell you what the law can do about it. Missouri has an anti-hazing statute that makes what happened to your child a crime — and when the conduct creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury or death, that crime is a felony. Eleven men were charged in the Phi Gamma Delta case. Four have already served jail time under plea deals. Seven more are headed to trial. The criminal system is doing its work. But the criminal system does not pay for your child’s wheelchair. It does not…

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Jul 22, 2026

Max Gruver Hazing Death at LSU: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Its Chapter Leadership After Phi Delta Theta’s Own Published Admission It Wasn’t Doing Enough to Fight Hazing, the Acute Alcohol Toxicity That Killed an 18-Year-Old Freshman, We Move to Preserve Fraternity House Surveillance, Member Group Messages and National Compliance Records Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s Short Prescriptive Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Anti-Hazing Statute in Plain Language, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and Is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

National Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: When the Organization Itself Admits Failure You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to read anything. A young person left for college and did not come home. A fraternity that was supposed to build brotherhood built a coffin instead. And now the organization itself has put words on a page that a trial lawyer reads the way a surgeon reads an X-ray — as a confession. In September 2017, an 18-year-old freshman at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge died as a result of a hazing incident at the LSU chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. A documentary series released on February 22, 2024, brought national attention back to the case. And Phi Delta Theta’s own published statement acknowledged something that most defendants spend millions trying to deny: that the organization “wasn’t doing enough to fight hazing.” We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle fraternity hazing wrongful-death cases. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is currently lead counsel in an active $10 million-plus hazing wrongful-death lawsuit against a university fraternity. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like the family reading this page. He now sits on your side of the table, in English or in Spanish. This page is not a news article. It is…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Liable Party Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite and Pull the Group-Chat Records and Hospital Intake Documents That Expose the Cover-Up, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Insurer Values and Denies These Claims, Chest Trauma and Commotio Cordis From Multiple Pledging-Ritual Strikes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is One of the Shortest Deadlines in the Nation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened at Southern University and What Louisiana Law Lets a Family Do About It If you are reading this because someone you love was taken by a fraternity hazing ritual in Baton Rouge, we want you to understand something before anything else: what happened was not an accident, and it was not a rite of passage that went wrong. It was a crime. Louisiana law says so in plain language, and the people who did it are already being arrested for it. But the criminal case is only one track. There is a second track — a civil track — and it is the one that lets a family hold every responsible party accountable, from the individuals who threw the punches to the national fraternity that failed to stop the culture that put those fists in motion. That second track has a clock. In Louisiana, that clock is one of the shortest in the nation. We are going to explain everything on this page — the law, the medicine, the evidence, the money, and the playbook the other side is already running — so that when you pick up the phone, you know exactly what you are walking into and exactly what to demand. Baton Rouge Police Chief Thomas Morse Jr. said it directly: “Caleb Wilson died as a direct result of a hazing incident where he was punched in the chest multiple times while pledging to Omega Psi Phi fraternity.” That sentence is the…

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Jul 22, 2026

Southern University Fraternity Hazing Death of Caleb Wilson in Baton Rouge — A 20-Year-Old Mechanical Engineering Junior Punched Repeatedly During an Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual, Collapsed With a Seizure, and Died: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity’s Liability Coverage, the Business Owner Who Provided the Off-Campus Premises, and Every Entity That Allowed This Culture to Persist, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Fraternity Records Before They Are Destroyed, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the One-Year Prescriptive Period Running From the Date of Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What the Law Says, Who Is Responsible, and What Your Family Must Do Now The phone call that changed your family came in late February. Your son went to a pledge ritual at a flooring company off campus. He was punched — four times, the police say — and he collapsed. He had a seizure. He stopped responding. And by the time anyone told you the truth about where he had been and what had been done to him, he was already gone. The people who carried him to the hospital did not tell the doctors what happened. They said he collapsed playing basketball. Then they left before the police arrived. That lie is not just a detail. It is the first piece of evidence in your case, and it tells you everything about who these people are and what they were willing to do to protect themselves after your child was killed. Three arrests have been made. More may come. But the criminal arrests are only one piece of the accountability picture. The civil case — the lawsuit that holds the fraternity, the business owner, and the institutions accountable — is how the full defendant stack pays for what happened. And in Louisiana, the clock on that civil case is already running, and it is shorter than almost anywhere else in the country. This page is written for you, the family of a young person killed or injured in a fraternity hazing ritual in…

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Jul 22, 2026

Hazing Death Prompts Soul-Searching for Divine Nine – Capital B News

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: Louisiana Law, Commotio Cordis, and What a Family Can Do After a Fraternity Ritual Turns Fatal A 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior at Southern University — a musician in the school’s celebrated Human Jukebox marching band — walked into a warehouse in Baton Rouge on a February night for what he believed was part of joining a brotherhood. He never walked out. Three men took turns punching him and the other pledges in the chest with boxing gloves. He collapsed. And then, instead of calling 911, the people around him changed his clothes, drove him to a hospital emergency room, and told the staff he had been hit in the chest playing basketball. That lie is not just a moral outrage. It is a legal weapon. On September 29, the East Baton Rouge Parish coroner ruled his death a homicide — caused by a rare cardiac event called commotio cordis, where a blunt blow to the chest at the wrong moment in the heart’s electrical cycle stops the heart cold. Three fraternity members face felony hazing charges. One faces manslaughter. The family has filed a lawsuit against the university, the fraternity, and several individuals. If your family is sitting where this family sat in the days after February 26 — wondering whether what happened was a crime or a tradition, whether anyone can be held accountable, whether the cover-up makes the case stronger or just more painful — this page is for you. We are Attorney911. We…

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Jul 22, 2026

UT Austin Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — Sawyer Updike, 18, Driven to Suicide After Months of a Fishhook Through His Leg, Cigarette Burns, a Staple Gun to the Hip, Beatings and Forced Cocaine at the Sigma Chi Alpha Nu House on Nueces Street in Austin, Travis County, Texas — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the House Corporation Behind the Hazing Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Phone Evidence, Hazing Photos and UT Disciplinary Files Before Members Scatter and Devices Are Wiped, the Wrongful-Death Clock Running from January 16, 2024, Texas Anti-Hazing Law Makes Consent No Defense, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hazing Death Nobody Stopped — and the Law That Says It Was Never Your Child’s Choice If you are reading this page, you already know the worst. A young man you love went away to college — in this case, to the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and most respected universities in the country — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Or you are reading this because you saw what happened to someone else’s son and you are terrified it could happen to yours. Either way, you are in the right place, and the first thing we need you to hear is this: what happened was not your child’s fault, and Texas law says so in writing. An 18-year-old freshman from Pearland, Texas, accepted a bid to pledge a fraternity’s Alpha Nu Chapter at UT Austin in August 2023. What followed, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his parents, was months of what can only be called torture — a fishhook speared through his leg, repeated cigarette burns, a staple gun driven into his hip, physical whippings and beatings, coerced use of cocaine, and forced consumption of dangerous amounts of alcohol. Much of it was photographed and recorded by the participants themselves. On January 16, 2024, he was given cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms at the fraternity house on Nueces Street in Austin’s West Campus. A short time later, his worsening psychological crisis led…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Flagstaff Campus Where Three Fraternity Members Face Criminal Hazing Charges After an 18-Year-Old Student’s Death, We Pursue the Individual Members, the Local Chapter, the National Fraternity Organization and the University That Failed to Supervise, Arizona’s Anti-Hazing Statutes Create Civil Liability and the State Constitution Forbids Damage Caps on Wrongful Death, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Group-Chat Records, Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, University Disciplinary Files and Autopsy Findings, the University Notice-of-Claim Deadline Runs Far Shorter Than the Statute of Limitations, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Civil Rights After Criminal Charges You are reading this because someone you love — an 18-year-old who should be starting their adult life — is gone. Three fraternity members at Northern Arizona University have been arrested and charged with hazing in connection with that death. The criminal case is real and it matters. But it is not your family’s case. The prosecutor represents the State of Arizona, not you. No one from the criminal system is building a claim for your family’s loss, your child’s suffering, or the lifetime of what was stolen. That is a separate fight — a civil fight — and it is the one that actually answers to you. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that handles hazing wrongful death cases, and we are writing this for one purpose: to give you the truth about what the civil justice system can do that the criminal system cannot, what evidence is disappearing right now while you grieve, and what deadlines are already running that you cannot afford to miss. Your child is not blamed for what happened. Hazing exploits vulnerability and power imbalance — the law recognizes this, and so do we. Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, any day. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win your case. What Criminal Charges Mean for Your Family — and What They Don’t The arrests of three fraternity members are an important first step toward accountability.…

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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death in Flagstaff: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization and the Local Chapter That Furnished Alcohol to an 18-Year-Old at a Delta Tau Delta Rush Event Where He Was Found Unresponsive the Next Morning, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Social Media Posts, Surveillance Footage and Coconino County Toxicology Before They Are Scrubbed on a 7-30 Day Overwrite Cycle, Arizona’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Liquor Laws Prohibiting Alcohol to Minors Build the Negligence-Per-Se Claim, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Pure Comparative Negligence With No Damages Caps, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at Northern Arizona University — and What It Means for Your Family Your child left for college in Flagstaff. He was 18 years old. He went to a fraternity rush event on a Friday evening at an off-campus residence, and by Saturday morning he was gone — found unresponsive, with the Coconino County Medical Examiner now working to determine why. Three fraternity members who held executive positions in the Delta Tau Delta chapter have been arrested on hazing charges. Northern Arizona University has suspended the fraternity, releasing a statement that violence, hazing, or any behavior endangering others has no place at the institution. We are writing this for the family — the people who got the call, who drove to Flagstaff, who are sitting in a place they never expected to be, trying to understand how a child who left home for his first year of college is now at the medical examiner’s office instead of in a classroom. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, including fraternity hazing deaths, and we currently litigate a $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. We are not your counsel on this case. We are a resource — the education, the governing law, the evidence clocks, the honest evaluation of what a case like this is worth — so that whatever you decide to do, you do it with the truth in your hands and the proof still alive.…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death in Bowling Green, Ohio: Attorney911 Holds National Fraternities Like Pi Kappa Alpha Accountable When Forced-Alcohol Initiation Rituals Turn Fatal, Stone Foltz, a BGSU Sophomore, Died Three Days After a Hazing Event at a Pi Kappa Alpha Initiation Where He Was Made to Drink Alcohol and Was Kept Alive for Organ Donation, Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Remedy, Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for His Three Days of Conscious Suffering, We Secure the Surveillance Footage, Group Chats and Toxicology Reports Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit Against a National Fraternity, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Bowling Green, Ohio Fraternity Hazing Death: What the Family of a Hazing Victim Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing incident at Bowling Green State University — or anywhere in Ohio — you are in a moment that no family should ever have to live through. You are standing in the wreckage of a promise that was made to your child and broken in the worst way possible. A university was supposed to educate them. A fraternity was supposed to brotherhood them. Instead, an organization that publishes words like “zero-tolerance” let a ritual built on coerced alcohol consumption take your child’s life. We are going to tell you the truth about what happened, what the law says about it, and what you can do — because the truth is the one thing the fraternity’s lawyers are already working to make sure you never fully hear. Hazing is not an accident. It is not a tradition that went too far. It is a preventable act of organizational recklessness, and Ohio law gives families specific civil remedies to hold the people who permitted it fully accountable. My name is Ralph Manginello. I have spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and I am the lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity — a case that exists because another family was standing exactly where you are standing right now. My partner,…

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Jul 22, 2026

Fraternity Hazing & Catastrophic Brain Injury: Daniel Santulli, an 18-Year-Old Phi Gamma Delta Pledge at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Suffered Permanent Anoxic Brain Injury at a 0.486 BAC After the Pledge Father Reveal Tradition Forced Him to Drink a Bottle of Tito’s Vodka — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations and Local Chapters That Knew of Six Alcohol Violations and Two Prior Hazing Incidents Yet Failed to Enforce Their Own Anti-Hazing Policies, 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 Attorney Who Knows How the Fraternity Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Surveillance Footage, Group-Chat Records and University Disciplinary Files Before the Footage Overwrites and the Messages Are Deleted, Missouri’s Anti-Hazing Statute Makes Consent No Defense, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbia, Missouri Fraternity Hazing Lawyer: When a Pledge Night Becomes a Life Sentence If you are reading this at two in the morning, sitting in a hospital chair next to a child who will not wake up, we are talking to you. Not to a courtroom. Not to a search engine. To you — the parent who dropped your son off at college in September and got the call in October that he was carried into University Hospital not breathing, his lips blue, his heart stopped, with a blood-alcohol content of 0.486 — a number so high that most people never reach it alive. We know what you are feeling is beyond language. We also know that what happened to your child was not an accident, not a choice, and not his fault. It was a system — a tradition built to strip young people of their ability to say no, enforced by a power structure that the national organization knew about, the university documented, and nobody stopped. We are Attorney911, and we handle hazing cases with the specificity and ferocity they demand. What follows is everything we know about how a case like this is built, what the medicine means, what the law allows, and what you need to do right now — before the evidence disappears and before the insurance company finishes building its defense against your family. What Happened at the Phi Gamma Delta House on October 20, 2021 The facts of this case are not subtle.…

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