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Hickory, North Carolina Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death — What Harrison’s Law Means for Your Family When a fraternity calls a family to say their son was “hurt playing football,” and the family arrives at a trauma center hours later to find fraternity members with bloodshot eyes in muddy clothing who have been there all night — that mismatch is where a hazing wrongful death case begins. The story told to the family is almost never what actually happened. In Hickory, North Carolina, a 19-year-old student-athlete died after what his fraternity brothers initially described as a football accident. He was not playing football. He was running across a field in light-colored clothing, told to touch a rock, while being tackled from all sides — a hazing ritual. He hit his head. His brain swelled and bled. He died the next day. That phone call, the false story, the delayed truth — this is the pattern we see in hazing deaths across the country. And the evidence that proves what really happened is disappearing on a clock that has already started. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes North Carolina hazing cases, and we are currently lead counsel in…