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Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Death in Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Behind the Pledging Ritual That Killed a 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior — Repeated Blunt Chest Trauma, No 911 Call, a Fabricated Basketball Story at the Hospital, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and Group-Chat Records Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Period Is Among the Shortest in the Nation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, 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

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Louisiana Law Allows, What the Evidence Shows, and Why the Clock Is Already Running If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone. Maybe it was days ago and the grief is still a physical weight in your chest. Maybe it has been weeks and the shock has hardened into something worse — the slow, grinding realization that the people who killed your child are still walking around, still free, still telling themselves stories about what happened. You came here because you heard about what happened at Southern University — a 20-year-old junior, a mechanical engineering student, a trumpet player in the Human Jukebox marching band — dropped off at a hospital unresponsive at midnight, with a group of young men claiming he collapsed playing basketball. You heard that the police chief said it was a lie. That he died because he was punched in the chest, over and over, inside a warehouse, while pledging a fraternity. That no one called 911. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes fraternity hazing wrongful death cases — and right now, we are the only firm in the country actively…

Southern University Student Caleb Wilson’s Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi and Every Individual Behind the Boxing-Glove Pledging Ritual Under Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Commotio Cordis: How Four Chest Punches With Only a Small Bruise Trigger Fatal Cardiac Arrest, We Preserve Off-Campus Surveillance, Participant Cell-Phone Records and Fraternity Communications Before the Overwrite and Louisiana’s One-Year Prescriptive Clock Runs, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice 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 Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, 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 Hazing Ritual Becomes a Death Sentence: Your Family’s Rights in Louisiana You are reading this because someone you love is gone. Not from a disease they couldn’t fight, not from an accident nobody could prevent — from a ritual. A ritual that young men designed, organized, and ran in a room in Baton Rouge, where they put boxing gloves on their hands and punched your son in the chest until his heart stopped. And then, when he fell, not one of them picked up a phone. They watched. They waited. And when they finally carried him to a hospital, they lied about what happened and walked out the door before anyone could ask them the truth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana cases, and we know what hazing does to families because we are living it right now in another case. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit against a fraternity at a major university. We know the culture. We know the cover-ups. We know the playbook the other side has already started running against your family. And we know…

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death Lawsuit: Baton Rouge Fraternity Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to East Baton Rouge Parish, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapters and the University That Failed to Prevent Foreseeable Hazing, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Warehouse Surveillance on a 30-Day Overwrite Cycle, Group-Chat Records and Hospital Intake Statements That Document the Cover-Up Before They Disappear, Commotio Cordis From Repeated Chest Blows During an Unsanctioned Pledging Ritual Where Members Delayed 911 and Gave False Information at the Hospital, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the State’s 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 Wrongful Death: Who Can Be Held Accountable Under Louisiana Law If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your child did not come home from a fraternity ritual — or because you are watching a family grieve a pledging death that should never have happened — you are in the hardest moment a parent can face. We are going to tell you exactly what Louisiana law allows, who can be held responsible, and what is disappearing from the evidence while you read this page. You have one year under Louisiana law to file a delictual claim. That clock started the day your child died. But the proof that wins the case — the warehouse surveillance, the text messages between fraternity members, the social media posts that show what happened before and after — that proof is dying faster than the clock, and nobody is preserving it for you unless someone sends the letter that freezes it. Louisiana wrote its anti-hazing law — the Max Gruver Act — after a freshman died at LSU in 2017. That statute criminalized the exact conduct that killed your child, and it also sets the civil standard of care in a…

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…

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death Lawsuit in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Represents the Family of the 20-Year-Old Southern University Junior After the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Ruled His Death a Homicide From Cardiac Arrest Caused by a Blow to the Chest During Underground Omega Psi Phi Pledging, We Pursue the National Fraternity, Its Local Chapters and the University Behind the Hazing and the Cover-Up That Changed His Clothes and Fabricated a Story Instead of Calling for Help, 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 Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Coroner’s Autopsy Report, Group-Chat Forensics and Hospital Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine in the 19th Judicial District, 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 Lawsuit: The Homicide Ruling, Commotio Cordis, and the Fight Against Underground Fraternity Pledging If you are reading this, you may be a parent who just buried a child. You may be a student who watched a friend collapse and could not save him. You may be a family member who received the phone call that no parent should ever get. We are writing to you — the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of questions and a grief that has no bottom. What happened to a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student and member of the Human Jukebox marching band at Southern University was not an accident. The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner said so in plain language: this was a homicide, caused by cardiac arrest from a blunt-force blow to the chest. That single word — homicide — is what changes this from a campus tragedy into a civil rights and wrongful death case. And that word is the foundation of everything we do from here. The law that protects your family in Louisiana is specific, and it is short on time. Louisiana has an exceptionally short one-year prescriptive period for delictual…

LSU TKE Hazing & Battery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Three Fraternity Members Cited for Striking Pledges at Two Off-Campus Locations, Attorney911 Is Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the Chapter and Its National Organization Behind the Coercive Pledging Culture, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the GroupMe and Snapchat Coordination Logs Before Auto-Deletion While the Fraternity’s Accountability Process Aligns Stories, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and the Running Prescriptive Period, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

LSU TKE Hazing in Baton Rouge: What Happened and What Your Rights Are If you are reading this page, you already know what happened on October 9, 2025. You know that active members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity — the Beta-Phi Chapter at Louisiana State University — struck pledges at two separate off-campus locations in Baton Rouge. You may be one of the pledges who was hit. You may be a parent who just learned your son came home with bruises he would not explain. You may be a witness who saw what happened and is trying to decide whether coming forward is loyalty or betrayal. We need to talk to you before the fraternity finishes the conversation it is already having with itself. Three TKE members — Logan Greneaux, 20, Brody Tanner, 19, and Thomas Lavergne, 22 — have been cited by LSU police for principal to criminal hazing and simple battery. They were issued summons, not booked into jail, because the charges are misdemeanors. More arrests may follow. The fraternity released a statement saying it “proactively self-reported” and does “not condone violence of any kind.” That statement is not an apology. It is a legal strategy, and…

LSU TKE Fraternity Hazing & Battery Lawsuit Attorneys — Attorney911, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Hazing Litigation, Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, We Pursue the TKE Local Chapter and Its National Organization for Negligent Supervision and Hazing-Culture Battery at Off-Campus Properties, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the GroupMe Archives and LSU Police Reports Before Messages Are Deleted Following Seven Arrests, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Lawyer — LSU TKE Arrests and Your Rights Under Louisiana Law If you are reading this page, someone you love was hazed at LSU. Maybe it was your son. Maybe it was you. Maybe you are sitting in a Baton Rouge apartment at 2 a.m. with a screenshot of the arrest report on your phone, trying to understand how seven fraternity members ended up issued criminal summonses for hazing, simple battery, and theft — and what that means for the person who was on the receiving end of it. We are going to tell you exactly what the law says, what evidence is already dying, and what to do about it. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information a senior trial attorney would give you across a kitchen table if you could sit down with one right now. The call to our firm is free and confidential. We do not get paid unless we win your case. Here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened to your student is not a “tradition.” It is not a “rite of passage.” It is not something they brought on…

LSU TKE Hazing Battery Arrests: Pledges Struck at Two On-Campus Locations in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Attorney911 Pursues the Tau Kappa Epsilon National Organization and Local Chapter for Negligent Supervision of Initiation Rituals, the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit Confirms We Know Greek-Life Battery Litigation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Value and Deny Claims, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Logs, LSUPD Bodycam Footage and Medical Photos of Bruising Before They Vanish, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act, Born From a Hazing Death on This Same Campus, Makes Consent No Defense to Fraternity Battery, the Prescriptive Clock Is Already Running, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge LSU Hazing Lawyer — TKE Battery, the Max Gruver Act, and Your Family’s Rights You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to be awake. Maybe your son called you from his dorm room, voice shaking, trying to explain what happened to him at the hands of people who called themselves his brothers. Maybe you are the student yourself, sitting in the dark, scrolling through your phone, trying to decide whether what happened to you was “enough” to call a lawyer about — whether you are allowed to call it what it was when the whole fraternity is already circling you, when the group chat has gone quiet in a way that feels like a warning. Maybe you saw the news that two members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter at Louisiana State University were arrested on criminal hazing charges, and you recognized the date, the chapter, the locations, and your stomach dropped because you know your son was there. We want you to hear something right now, before anything else: what happened to you or your child is a crime. Not a prank, not a tradition, not “boys being boys,” not something that happens…

Max Gruver Hazing Wrongful Death at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Attorney911 Pursues Phi Delta Theta International and Its Chartered Louisiana Beta Chapter Behind the Hazing That Killed an 18-Year-Old Freshman, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, the Fraternity’s Own Published Admission Its Anti-Hazing Policies Were Violated, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Chapter Group-Chat Records and National Fraternity Discipline Files Before They Are Purged, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Statute and the Max Gruver Act That Made Hazing Resulting in Death a Felony, This State’s Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrines With a Prescriptive Period Among the Shortest in the Nation, 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 Wrongful Death: Louisiana Law, Fraternity Liability, and What Families Must Do Now You are reading this at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a phone in your hand and a silence in the house that should not be there. Your son went away to college. He was eighteen years old. He wanted to join something, to belong to something, and the thing he joined killed him. Now you are looking for someone who will tell you the truth about what happens next — not in platitudes, not in “we’re so sorry for your loss,” but in the actual machinery of accountability and law. That is what this page is. We are Attorney911, and we are going to tell you everything we know about fraternity hazing wrongful death in Louisiana — the statutes, the defendants, the evidence that is already dying, the money, the deadlines, and the plays the other side is already running against your family. None of it is guesswork. It is what we do. Here is the first thing you need to hear, and it may be the most important thing on this entire page: the national fraternity has already admitted its own…

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Southern University Band Member Caleb Wilson, 20, Was Repeatedly Punched in an Off-Campus Fraternity Pledge Ritual, Collapsed With a Seizure and Died — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Case, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organization and the Commercial Property Owner Behind the Off-Campus Hazing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Deaths, We Secure the Surveillance Footage and Pledge-Process Communications Before the Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act Imposes Penalties on Organizations for Hazing Deaths, the One-Year Wrongful-Death Filing Window Is Already 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

Baton Rouge Hazing Death: What Happened to Caleb Wilson, and What the Law Lets a Family Do About It If your family is reading this, you already know the worst part. A 20-year-old Southern University student — a trumpet player in the university’s famed band, a young man with a life in front of him — went to a pledge ritual at a commercial flooring business in Baton Rouge and never came home. He was punched repeatedly as part of a hazing ceremony. He collapsed. He seized. And he died. What you may not know is how fast the legal window is closing. Louisiana gives families one year — one — to file a wrongful death claim after a death like this. That clock started the day Caleb Wilson died. It does not pause because you are grieving. It does not extend because the criminal investigation is still ongoing. And while it runs, the evidence that proves your case is dying on its own separate timer: surveillance footage overwriting itself in weeks, group chats disappearing with a single setting change, hospital video cycling out in 30 days. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and…

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