Baton Rouge Wrongful Death

Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death After a Forced-Alcohol Pledging Ritual Killed 18-Year-Old Max Gruver at LSU — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the University Answerable for Negligent Supervision That Left a Pledge Unresponsive on a Couch Until Morning in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Set Reserves and Deny These Claims, We Secure the Cell-Phone Records, Toxicology Reports and Chapter Bylaws on a Preservation Clock While the Prescriptive Period Runs, Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Doctrine Under Pure Comparative Fault, 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 Your Child in Baton Rouge — What the Law Actually Does You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loudest. Your son went away to school — to LSU, to a campus that promised growth and friendship and a future — and he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive a child. Maybe the call came from the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office. Maybe it came from a detective. Maybe it came from another pledge who was there and cannot sleep either. However you learned, you are now sitting with a fact that does not fit inside any sentence: your child is dead because of a ritual that the people who ran it called tradition and the law calls a crime. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and hazing cases in Louisiana, and right now we are also actively litigating a hazing wrongful death lawsuit against a university and fraternity in Texas. What we are about to tell you is not a sales pitch. It is a protect-and-arm brief — everything the other side is…

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Jul 3, 2026

LSU Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Max Gruver, an 18-Year-Old Freshman, Died at 0.495% BAC from Forced 190-Proof Alcohol in a Bible Study Hazing Ritual at the Phi Delta Theta House in Baton Rouge, 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, the Local Chapter, the Housing Corporation and the Insurers Behind Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Blames the Pledge, We Preserve GroupMe Messages and House Security Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, the Max Gruver Act Made Hazing a Felony in Louisiana and the Short Prescriptive Period for Wrongful-Death Claims Is Running, 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 Lawsuits: When a Pledge Doesn’t Come Home You are reading this at an hour when nobody should have to be awake. Your son went off to college — to LSU, to a campus in Baton Rouge, to the flagship university that was supposed to be the beginning of everything — and he did not come home. Or he came home in a way no parent should ever have to receive. The phone call came. The autopsy came. The words “blood alcohol content” and “hazing” came, and now you are sitting at a kitchen table at two in the morning trying to understand how an 18-year-old who walked into a fraternity house on a September night died there before morning. We are the trial attorneys who take these cases, and this page is the first thing that should make sense after that call. Everything here is the truth about what Louisiana law allows your family to do — and what the fraternity, its insurance company, and its lawyers are already doing to make sure you cannot do it. National Hazing Prevention Week arrives every September. Organizations put out statements. They partner with foundations named after dead…

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Jul 3, 2026

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful Death Attorneys: Southern University Student Caleb Wilson Died After Boxing-Glove Chest Punches at an Off-Campus Warehouse Where Fraternity Members Changed His Clothes Instead of Calling 911 — Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity-Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Chapter and the Warehouse Owner Under Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing and Wrongful-Death Law, We Move to Preserve the GroupMe Messages, Surveillance Video and Changed Clothing Before the Footage Overwrites and the Prescriptive Period Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Survival Actions for the Seizure and Collapse, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Hazing Kills: A Fraternity Pledge’s Death in Baton Rouge and Your Family’s Legal Rights If you are reading this page, you already know the worst thing a parent can learn. A child left for college and came home in a way no family should have to receive him. What happened on February 27, 2025, in a warehouse off campus in Baton Rouge was not an accident, was not a game that went too far, and was not a tragedy no one could have prevented. It was a crime under Louisiana law, and it was the foreseeable result of a culture that a national fraternity organization either failed to police or chose to tolerate. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases in Louisiana, and we are here to tell you exactly how the law treats what happened, who can be held accountable, what the evidence shows, and why the clock on your family’s rights is already running. The core facts, as investigators have alleged: a Southern University student and Omega Psi Phi pledge was one of nine young men taken to an off-campus warehouse, where fraternity members wearing boxing gloves punched the pledges in the chest in…

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Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson, a 20-Year-Old Southern University Marching Band Member, Collapsed and Died After Repeated Chest Punches in an Omega Psi Phi Hazing Ritual in Baton Rouge — Five Now Indicted, the Family Has Filed Wrongful Death Suit: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity, the Expelled Chapter and the Off-Campus Property Owner, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Institutional Liability Cases, We Move to Preserve Cell Phone Forensics, Hospital Surveillance Footage and Fraternity Ritual Manuals Before They Are Purged, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and the State’s Short Wrongful-Death Prescription Clock Drive the Urgency, 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 the Law Allows When a Ritual Kills a Student You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the weight is loudest. Your son, your brother, your grandson — a scholar, a musician, a young man with a life in front of him — went to a fraternity event and never came home. The police have made arrests. A grand jury has indicted. The university has expelled the chapter. And you are sitting at a kitchen table with a folder of papers you do not understand, being circled by people who sound sympathetic and are not. We are going to tell you, in plain language, what happened to your family under Louisiana law, what the other side is already doing, and what the first steps are. This is what we do. This is what we know. And the call is free. Louisiana has one of the shortest deadlines in the country to file a wrongful death case — one year. That clock is already running. It started the day your loved one died. The evidence that proves what happened is already disappearing on its own schedule — cell phone data…

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Jul 3, 2026

Baton Rouge Hazing Wrongful-Death Attorneys: Southern University Student Caleb Wilson, 20, Killed by Repeated Chest Punches in an Off-Campus Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual at a Warehouse, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, the Local Chapter and the Property Owner 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 Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Insurer Values and Denies These Claims, We Preserve the Warehouse Surveillance Footage and the Pledging-Line Group Messages Before They Are Deleted, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Hazing Death at Southern University: What Louisiana Law Says, What the Evidence Shows, and What a Family Can Do If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — a son, a brother, a bandmate, a friend — and the reason he is gone is that a fraternity decided his life was worth less than a ritual. You are in Baton Rouge, or you have family in Baton Rouge, and right now the university is issuing statements, the police are making arrests, and the fraternity’s national office is putting distance between itself and what happened. We are going to tell you exactly what the law in Louisiana says about this, what evidence is disappearing at this very moment, and what a family can actually do when a hazing ritual turns fatal. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is written by trial lawyers who know this fight, who are fighting it right now in another hazing case, and who will tell you the truth about what you are up against and how to win. What happened at that warehouse in Baton Rouge is not a mystery. A 20-year-old mechanical engineering junior, a…

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Jul 3, 2026

Hazing Wrongful Death of Caleb Wilson, 20-Year-Old Southern University Engineering Junior and Human Jukebox Trumpeter, After Boxing-Glove Strikes to the Chest at a Baton Rouge Warehouse Where Fraternity Members Changed His Clothes and Lied About a Basketball Collapse — Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Every Member Behind the Ritual, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez Fraternity Hazing Lawsuit, We Secure the Warehouse Surveillance and Group-Chat Forensics Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Fraternity’s Carrier Will Set Reserves and Deny, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act Imposes Civil Liability on Organizations When Hazing Causes Death, 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 a Southern University Student and What Louisiana Law Can Do About It If you are reading this page, your family has been shattered. Maybe your son or brother or grandson was killed in a fraternity ritual that was supposed to be about brotherhood and turned into something deadly. Maybe you are sitting in a house in Baton Rouge, or somewhere across Louisiana, trying to understand how a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student — a trumpet player in one of the most famous marching bands in the country — ended up dead after a night that was supposed to be about joining something bigger than himself. You are in the right place. Not because anything on this page will bring him back, but because what happened was not an accident, and what happens next is not automatic. Here is what we know happened in Baton Rouge on February 27, 2025. A 20-year-old student at Southern University and A&M College was participating in a pledging ritual for a fraternity. He and eight other pledges were taken to an off-campus commercial warehouse — a flooring company’s space — where the ritual involved being punched in the chest…

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Jul 3, 2026

Caleb Wilson’s Hazing Death in Baton Rouge — 20-Year-Old Southern University Pledge Punched With Boxing Gloves Until He Collapsed and Seized While No One Called 911 — Attorney911 Holds the National Fraternity and Its Local Chapter, We Pursue the Organization That Empowered Its Dean of Pledges and the Warehouse Owner Who Enabled the Hazing, 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 the Hospital Surveillance Footage and Suspect Communications Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Louisiana’s Max Gruver Act and Wrongful-Death Doctrine, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Death of Caleb Wilson: A 20-Year-Old Southern University Student, a Warehouse, and the Call No One Made If you are reading this page, your family has been destroyed by something that should never have happened. Your son went to college. He joined a fraternity. He was beaten in a ritual, and no one picked up a phone. You are learning that the people who killed him tried to hide what they did before they tried to save him. And right now, while you are still burying your child, the national fraternity’s lawyers are already drawing a line between “a few rogue members” and the organization whose name is on the letters on the sweatshirt your son was so proud to wear. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases, and we are currently litigating a hazing wrongful-death and injury case against Pi Kappa Phi and the University of Houston — a case led by our managing partner, Ralph Manginello. We know this fight because we are already in it. Here is what we know about what happened in Baton Rouge, what the law allows your family to…

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Jul 2, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Wrongful Death at Southern University, Baton Rouge: Attorney911 Pursues Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the Full Greek-Life Liability Chain, 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 National Fraternity Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Messages, Pledge Books, the Full Autopsy and Toxicology Before Evidence Is Wiped, Louisiana’s Wrongful-Death Act and One-Year Prescription Period Leave No Time to Wait, 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: What the Caleb Wilson Law Means for Your Family and How Louisiana Law Holds Fraternities Accountable If you are reading this page, your family has been shattered. A son, a brother, a grandson — a young person who went to Southern University to build a future — is gone. He died because people he trusted as brothers put him through something that has killed young people on Louisiana campuses before and will kill again unless someone forces the truth into the open. We are Attorney911, and we are writing to you — the mother, the father, the aunt, the grandparent — at the moment you need to understand three things at once: what the new law means, what your legal rights actually are under Louisiana law, and why the clock on those rights is already running. We want to tell you something first, before any law or any strategy. What happened to Caleb Wilson at Southern University in February 2025 is not something he caused. It is not something he consented to. It is not something he should have prevented. A pledge in a fraternity initiation is in a relationship of trust with the organization…

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Jul 2, 2026

Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: Caleb Wilson, a 20-Year-Old Southern University Human Jukebox Band Member, Killed in February 2025 by Boxing-Glove Chest Punches in an Omega Psi Phi Ritual That Caused Sudden Cardiac Arrest While Participants Failed to Call for Help — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit to Pursue the National Fraternity and the Institution Behind the Chapter, Serving Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternal Carriers Invoke Hazing Exclusions to Deny Coverage, We Preserve Group-Chat Evidence, the Coroner’s Findings and Fraternity Risk-Management Manuals Before Digital Records Are Deleted, Louisiana Passed the Max Gruver Act in 2018 and Now Has the Caleb Wilson Hazing Prevention Act — Consent Is Not a Valid Defense to Hazing Under Louisiana Law, 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 a Southern University Student — and How Louisiana Law Holds the Responsible Parties Accountable You are reading this at the hour when the house is quiet and the grief is loudest. Maybe it has been weeks since you got the call. Maybe it has been months and you are only now able to think clearly enough to type the question that brought you here. Either way, the same thing is true: someone you love is gone, and what killed him was not an accident. It was a ritual. It was preventable. And the law in Louisiana gives you less time to act than almost any other state in the country. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes hazing wrongful-death cases in Louisiana, working with local counsel and appearing pro hac vice where required. Our managing partner, Ralph Manginello, has 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, and is lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing lawsuit — Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi / University of Houston — filed in Harris County, Texas, in November 2025. He was a journalist before he was a…

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Jul 2, 2026

Caleb Wilson Fatal Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys in Baton Rouge — Attorney911 Holds National Organizations Liable for the Caleb Wilson Warehouse Assault, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, We Pursue the National Insurance Towers for Chest-Trauma Battery and the Failure to Call 911, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies Coverage, Millions Recovered in Louisiana Wrongful-Death and Survival-Action Claims, We Move to Preserve the Phone Data and Security Footage Before the Overwrite — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Dealing with the Tragedy of a Baton Rouge Hazing Incident If you are reading this, you are likely living through a nightmare that no parent in East Baton Rouge Parish should ever have to face. Your son was a junior mechanical engineering student. He was a talented trumpet player in the “Human Jukebox” marching band. He had a career trajectory that would have changed your family’s life. Then, in the darkness of an off-campus warehouse, a “pledge activity” turned into a violent criminal battery that stole his future. We know that the shock of a sudden death is often followed by a second wave of anger when you find out the truth was hidden from you. When the group dropped a student off at a local hospital emergency room, they didn’t tell the truth. They claimed he collapsed while playing basketball at a city park. They prioritized “the brand” of a fraternity over a human life. At no point did anyone call 911. We are Attorney911, and we take on the institutions that allow these “underground” rituals to persist. We serve as a trial firm that takes Louisiana wrongful death claim cases. We are here to tell you that the…

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