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Jul 22, 2026

NAU Pledge Colin Martinez, 18, Dead at 0.425% BAC After a Delta Tau Delta Vodka Hazing Ritual in Flagstaff — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Leaders Who Made Pledges Drink to Vomit, We Move to Preserve Group-Chat Data, Cell-Phone Symptom Searches and House Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, 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, Arizona Anti-Hazing Law, Social-Host Liability for Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, the Wrongful-Death Statute With No Damage Caps and the Public-University Tort-Claims Notice Deadline Running, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Flagstaff NAU Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights After Arizona Alcohol Poisoning If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. An 18-year-old college freshman — a kid who walked onto Northern Arizona University’s campus in Flagstaff with his whole life ahead of him — is dead because a fraternity decided that making pledges vomit was worth risking their lives. The autopsy says his blood-alcohol level was 0.425%. That number is not a percentage — it is a death sentence written in someone else’s handwriting. A level that high kills. It is more than five times the legal driving limit and falls squarely in the range that doctors call generally fatal. He did not choose to die. He was 18 years old, and the people who held power over him pointed at two bottles of vodka and told him and three other young men to drink until they threw up. That is not a party. That is a hazing ritual, and under Arizona law, it is something the people who organized it, supervised it, and allowed it to continue are answerable for. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle hazing wrongful death cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and right now he is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university and a fraternity in Texas. Lupe Peña spent years on the other side of this fight — inside a national insurance-defense firm, in…

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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 National Hazing Cases, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations and Local Chapters Behind Coerced Pledge Drinking Games Where an 18-Year-Old Reached a Lethal 0.425 BAC and Members Who Monitored Him Abandoned Him Without Calling 911, the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Group-Chat Messages and Cell-Phone Records Before They Vanish, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Constitutional Prohibition on Damage 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

Your Son Was Poisoned — Not by Accident, but by a System That Let Him Die You sent your son to Northern Arizona University to learn, to grow, to find his community. You did not send him to die alone on the floor of an off-campus fraternity house in Flagstaff while the people who put him there went to sleep. The Coconino County Medical Examiner has now confirmed what happened: he died of acute ethanol toxicity. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.425 — a number that means his breathing was shutting down, that his brain was being starved of oxygen, and that the people watching him knew, or should have known, that he was dying. They did not call 911. They let him die. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, and we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a university fraternity — a case that has taught us exactly how these organizations operate, how they try to escape accountability, and how to break through every wall they build. What follows is everything you need to know about what happened to your son, what Arizona law allows you to do about it, and why time is the enemy of evidence in a case like this. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is written by trial lawyers who know this fight. Everything here is yours — take it, use it, and…

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Jul 22, 2026

Judge seeks list of remaining defendants as Piazza family’s hazing lawsuit nears trial – WJAC

State College Hazing Wrongful Death: The Fraternity Lawsuit Approaching Trial in Centre County The call came at night, or it came in the morning, or it came while you were at work — but it came, and everything after it is divided into before and after. Your son, your brother, your grandson went to a fraternity event at college and did not come back. Or he came back changed, injured, broken in ways the hospital could describe but not undo. You are reading this page because you need to know what can be done about it, and you need to know now, while the evidence still exists and the deadline has not passed. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, including fraternity and sorority hazing litigation. One of our founders is currently lead counsel in an active hazing lawsuit — that case is in Texas, not this one, but the machinery of a hazing case is the same wherever it is filed: the same defendant structures, the same insurance tactics, the same proof problems, the same human cost. We built this page to give you what we would want if we were sitting on your side of that kitchen table: the truth about what happened, what the law allows, what the fight looks like, and what to do next. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting the firm is free and confidential. We don’t get paid unless we…

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Jul 22, 2026

Mead School District Hazing & Sexual Assault Liability: Attorney911 Holds School Systems Accountable When a Student-Athlete Is Pinned Down and Sexually Assaulted With a Massage Gun at a School-Sponsored Football Camp in Cheney, Spokane County, Washington — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing & Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pursue the Districts That Conceal Hazing Reports and Delete Racial-Discrimination Findings, We Preserve the Investigation Files, Assault Video and Staff Communications Before They Are Altered, Title IX Deliberate-Indifference Standard and Washington’s Anti-Hazing and Mandatory-Reporter Framework, Severe Emotional Trauma and Racial-Harassment Injuries, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at That Football Camp — and What It Means for Every Family in Washington If your child was sexually assaulted at a school-sponsored athletic camp — pinned down by teammates and attacked while others recorded it on a phone — you are holding a fact no parent is prepared to receive. And if the school that sent your child to that camp then spent months calling it “roughhousing,” hiding the video, and editing the racial dimension out of the investigation report, the betrayal did not end with the assault. It continued in the offices of the people you trusted to protect your child. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle hazing and sexual assault cases against schools nationwide, and right now a jury in Spokane County Superior Court is deciding what the Mead School District owes two former students who were assaulted at a 2023 football camp at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. The court has already ruled the district is liable. The question is no longer whether the school failed these children. The question is what that failure is worth. The answer, based on the evidence that has come out at trial, is somewhere between $20 million and $50 million for the two victims combined. But the number is only part of the story. The deeper truth is how the system around these boys — the coaches, the athletic director, the superintendent — worked to keep their parents from finding out what happened…

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Jul 22, 2026

$17M Mead High School Football Hazing Verdict in Spokane County, Washington: Attorney911 Holds School Districts Accountable When Coaches and Administrators Violate Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Laws, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Institutional Defendants Behind the Sacrifice Ritual Where a Pulsating Massage Gun Was Pressed Into Minors’ Private Parts While Teammates Recorded Video, Title IX and Washington Anti-Hazing Act Violations, We Preserve the Assault Videos, Dormitory Surveillance and Internal Communications Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Spokane County, Washington School Hazing Verdict: What the $17 Million Mead High Football Case Means for Families If you are reading this page, you may be sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a child who has come home from a school sports camp changed — quieter, angrier, afraid in ways they were not before. You may have just learned that something happened to them on a trip the school was supposed to supervise. You may be furious, terrified, and completely unsure whether what was done to your child is the kind of thing a lawyer can actually do something about. It is. A Spokane County jury just answered that question with $17 million and a verdict that took fewer than two and a half hours to reach unanimously. That speed tells you everything about how clear the moral and legal picture was once twelve people heard the full story. We are Attorney911, and we build school hazing and institutional-negligence cases the same way that one was built — by proving the school knew, the school had a duty, and the school chose to do nothing. What happened at Mead High School’s football camp is a textbook of how institutions fail children, and the verdict is a textbook of how a community holds them accountable. The $17 Million Verdict — What a Spokane County Jury Decided On June 25, 2026, a Spokane County Superior Court jury awarded $17 million in damages to two former Mead High School football…

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Jul 22, 2026

College Hazing Wrongful Death in Lewisburg, PA: Calvin Dickey Jr., 18-Year-Old Bucknell Freshman Lineman with Known Sickle-Cell Trait, Collapsed During 100+ Forced Ups and Downs and Died Two Days Later — Attorney911 Pursues the University and the Athletic Department Behind the Workout, the Institution’s Own NCAA Self-Reports Documenting Prior Conditioning Violations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing and Institutional-Liability Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Video, the Medical-Conditions Spreadsheet and the 911 Recordings Before Footage Overwrites and Witnesses Transfer, Pennsylvania’s Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Civil Remedy, the Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Two Days of Conscious Suffering, No Damage Caps Against Private Universities, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lewisburg Hazing Death Lawyer: When a University’s Negligence Kills a Student Athlete You sent your child to college to play a sport, and the sport killed him. That is the worst sentence a parent can read, and it is the one that starts every case like this. An 18-year-old freshman lineman arrived at Bucknell University in Lewisburg with a known medical condition — sickle-cell trait — that his coaches had been told about, that his strength coach had looked up on a spreadsheet the very morning of the workout, and that the NCAA has specific written protocols to protect. None of those protections mattered on July 10, 2024, because the man running the practice decided to make the players do approximately a hundred “ups and downs” — fall flat, stand up, repeat — until a young man who should never have been pushed that hard collapsed on the floor and never got up again. Two days later, Calvin Dickey Jr. was dead at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. The Montour County Coroner amended his death certificate to list the manner of death as homicide, with “forced exercise-induced sickle cell crisis” as a substantial factor. The Pennsylvania Attorney General filed criminal charges against the coach — involuntary manslaughter, aggravated hazing, hazing, and recklessly endangering another person. And the young man’s parents filed a civil lawsuit against the university that employed the coach, knew his history, and let him keep running workouts with medically vulnerable athletes. This page is for the family…

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Jul 21, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death of Colin Daniel Martinez in Flagstaff, Arizona: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization and Its Local Chapter for the Forced Vodka Ritual That Killed an 18-Year-Old Pledge at 0.425% BAC While Fraternity Members Searched Alcohol-Poisoning Symptoms Online but Never Called 911, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Group Chats and Fraternity Risk-Management Files Before They Are Scrubbed, the 180-Day University Notice-of-Claim Clock Is Running, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Hours of Untreated Suffering, Pure Comparative Negligence, No Constitutional Damage 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

When Your Child Dies at a Fraternity House in Flagstaff You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a night at a fraternity house near Northern Arizona University. The police have called. The medical examiner has issued a report. A young man who was supposed to be starting his life is gone, and the people who were in that house with him are already talking to lawyers of their own. We need to tell you three things right now, before anything else. First: what happened to your family member was not an accident, and it was not his fault. When a pledge master forces four young men to share two bottles of vodka until they vomit, and then every person in that house watches him stop breathing and looks up “alcohol poisoning symptoms” on their phones instead of calling 911, that is not a tragedy that happened to someone. That is something that was done to someone. Second: there is a clock running that you cannot see. If any claim against Northern Arizona University is part of your family’s path to accountability, Arizona law requires formal written notice to the university within approximately 180 days of the date of death. That deadline falls in approximately late July 2026. It is a jurisdictional prerequisite — meaning if it is missed, the claim against the university is permanently barred, no matter how strong the evidence is. No court can waive it. Third: the evidence that proves what…

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Jul 21, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death at Southern University: Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations Behind Hazing Rituals and the Universities That Fail to Prevent Them, Fatal Blunt Chest Trauma From Boxing-Glove Strikes During an Unsanctioned Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Chapter Communications, Risk-Management Files and Cardiac Pathology Records Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and One-Year Wrongful-Death Prescriptive Period, Millions Recovered 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 Families Need to Know Right Now If your family is reading this, someone you love is gone. A 20-year-old student at Southern University — a young man from Kenner with his whole life ahead of him — died in February 2025 after being punched in the chest with boxing gloves during what the fraternity called a pledging ritual. Five people have been charged. The criminal trial is set for August 19, 2026. Southern University expelled the fraternity. And you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what any of this means for your family. We are going to tell you the truth about what the law allows, what the deadlines are, and what the other side is already doing. None of this is fair. All of it is real. And the most important thing we can tell you — before any other word on this page — is that Louisiana gives families one year from the date of death to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started ticking in February 2025. It may have already run out. If no civil petition was filed by approximately February 2026, your family’s right to hold the fraternity, the university, and the individuals financially accountable may be extinguished unless a Louisiana attorney can identify a tolling doctrine that preserved the claim. That is not a scare tactic. That is the law. And it is the first thing you need to discuss with…

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Jul 21, 2026

CJ Dickey Hazing Death at Bucknell: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis from 100 Up-Downs Ordered Despite Known Sickle Cell Trait, an 18-Year-Old Freshman Collapsed on His First Day of Football Practice in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Pursues the University and Its Athletic Department in Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases Under the Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Conditioning Protocols, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pull the SCT Training Records, Practice Footage and Athletic Department Communications Before They Are Purged, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the University’s Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Actions With No Caps on Punitive Damages for Reckless Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Wrongful-Death Filing Deadline Is Approaching — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The First Day That Should Never Have Happened: Hazing, Sickle Cell Trait, and a Death That Was Preventable Your son walked onto a college campus for his first day of football practice. He never walked off. Now a prosecutor has confirmed what you already knew in your bones: his death was not an accident. It was preventable, and someone who knew the danger pushed him through it anyway. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your family is living through something like what happened at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — or because you are the family of Calvin “CJ” Dickey Jr. and you are trying to understand what the criminal charges filed on July 6, 2026, mean for your civil case — this page is for you. We are Attorney911, a trial firm that takes Pennsylvania hazing and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel where required. We are not your lawyers yet. But we are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases are built, what the law allows, what the evidence shows, and what the university and its insurers are already doing to protect themselves — so that when you do call a lawyer, you call one who knows exactly what to do on day one. Here is the first thing you need to hear: your son’s death was not his fault. An 18-year-old freshman on his first day of collegiate practice cannot be expected to defy a conditioning coach’s direct orders.…

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Jul 21, 2026

OP faith community remembering K-State student who died after falling out of fraternity house window – KSHB 41 Kansas City

Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas Fraternity House Window Fall Death — Your Rights When Police Say “No Foul Play” You heard the words every family dreads, and then you heard the words that made it worse: “no foul play.” The police said it. The university repeated it. And now you are sitting with a grief that has no address, wondering whether those three words mean no one is responsible for what happened. They do not. They never have. And understanding why is the first thing you deserve to know. “No foul play” is a criminal determination. It means the police did not find evidence that someone committed a crime — no assault, no push, no hazing ritual. That finding answers one question: whether a prosecutor should bring charges. It says nothing — nothing at all — about whether the fraternity house maintained a safe premises, whether the window that allowed your loved one to fall met building code requirements, whether a broken lock or a low sill or a missing guard turned a second-story room into a trap, or whether the organizations that owned, operated, and controlled that house owed a duty they failed to meet. Those are civil questions, governed by a completely different body of law, and the police determination does not touch them. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Kansas wrongful death and premises liability cases, working with local counsel where required. We have spent over 27 years…

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