Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death in Monroe County, Pennsylvania: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity, Local Chapter and Rental Property Owner Behind the Glass Ceiling Ritual That Killed Baruch Freshman Michael Deng — Blindfolded, Loaded With a 30-Pound Backpack, Tackled and Kicked in the Head, Then Left Motionless for Over an Hour While Members Hid Fraternity Paraphernalia Before Driving 45 Minutes to the Nearest Hospital, the Forensic Finding That Delayed Treatment Significantly Contributed to His Death, We Pull the Cell Records and Fraternity Communications on a 12-to-18-Month Retention Cycle and the Autopsy Report Before Evidence Is Lost, Pennsylvania’s Anti-Hazing Statute and Wrongful-Death Act With Its 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
The Death That Did Not Have to Happen: Michael Deng and the Fraternity Cover-Up That Made a Survivable Injury Fatal If you are reading this page, you already know something no parent should ever have to learn. A young person you love went away to college, joined an organization that promised brotherhood, and came home in a way no family should ever have to receive them — or did not come home at all. You are sitting with a grief that has a shape and a name, and you are trying to understand whether what happened was an accident or a choice, because that distinction is the difference between a tragedy you endure and a wrong someone answers for. We want you to know one thing before anything else: the forensic evidence in the Michael Deng case confirmed that timely medical care would have saved his life. A forensic pathologist determined that the one-to-two-hour delay in treatment significantly contributed to his death. That means this death was not inevitable. It was caused by specific decisions specific people made — the decision to blindfold an 18-year-old and send him through a gauntlet wearing a 30-pound backpack, the decision to keep going…