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Flagstaff Fraternity Hazing Death: Your Family’s Legal Rights Under Arizona Law If your family is reading this, your son is gone. He was 18 years old. He went to Northern Arizona University to get an education, and a fraternity ritual built around forcing pledges to drink lethal quantities of vodka took his life. People around you may be calling this a tragedy, an accident, a foolish mistake. The Coconino County judge who set bond said it appeared to be “a foolish incident that got out of hand.” We need you to hear something different, because the law says something different: what happened to your son was a crime. Arizona’s anti-hazing statute prohibits exactly this conduct. Three fraternity members have been arrested and charged. And the evidence already in the public record — the Google search for “alcohol poisoning” at 3 a.m. while your son lay unconscious and struggling to breathe, the five-hour wait before anyone called 911 — is proof that the people in that room recognized the emergency and chose not to act. That is not a foolish incident. Under Arizona law, that is conscious disregard for human life. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes…