VCU Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Adam Oakes, a 19-Year-Old Freshman, Died of Alcohol Poisoning at an Off-Campus Fraternity Event When a Delta Chi Pledging Ritual Forced a Family Bottle of Whiskey, Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity and Chapter Officers Behind the Coerced Consumption, We Move to Preserve GroupMe Texts, Social Media Footage and Toxicology Reports Before Students Switch Devices and Accounts Deactivate, 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 the Claims Machine Will Invoke Virginia’s Contributory-Negligence Rule to Blame the Student, We Counter With Coercion Doctrine and Virginia’s Hazing Statute, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Virginia Fraternity Hazing Deaths: The Legal Fight When Pledging Turns Deadly You watched the documentary. You watched a family that had every reason to be proud — a son heading to college, a fraternity bid accepted, a life stretching out in front of a young man — and you watched it end in a way no parent should have to bury. Five years later, that family is still standing, still fighting, still telling the story in a film called 4,000 Days because the law did not do enough and the fraternities did not change enough and the next family is always one semester away from the same grief. We are the trial team at Attorney911. We handle hazing wrongful-death cases, and we are currently litigating a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a national fraternity and a major university. What happened at that off-campus fraternity event in Richmond, Virginia is not an isolated tragedy — it is a pattern that repeats at campuses across the country, driven by the same rituals, the same coercion, and the same institutional indifference. This page exists because the law has tools to hold the people responsible, and because the families who need those tools almost never…