College Hazing Crimes
Oct. 22, 2015: Two young men have been charged in the death of a 19-year-old New York state university student who drank an excessive amount of alcohol. University at Albany student Trevor Duffy was found unconscious in a house on Nov. 16 and later died at a hospital. He was from New York City.
Albany police said that 20-year-olds Olaf Jablonski and Yuval Sucov were involved in an initiation for an unsanctioned fraternity in which pledges were required to drink large amounts of alcohol.
College Hazing Crimes
October 8, 2015: The Indiana University Bloomington chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity was closed by its national organization the day after a video surfaced purportedly showing a man performing a sex act on a woman during an apparent hazing ritual.
College Hazing Crimes
Nov. 12, 2014: A West Virginia University fraternity pledge drank a lethal amount of alcohol shortly before he died during an initiation function.
Tests showed 18-year-old Nolan Michael Burch's blood alcohol level was 0.493 -- more than six times the legal limit of 0.08 for driving.
Burch was among 20 pledges who received a bottle of liquor from a senior member or alumnus of the fraternity Kappa Sigma for the initiation.
College Hazing Crimes
Nov. 2014: University at Albany student, Trevor Duffy, 19, died after he drank a 60-ounce bottle of vodka during what college officials say was the hazing of pledges at an unsanctioned fraternity.
College Hazing Crimes
Jul 1, 2014: A 19-year-old California State University-Northridge student died while on a fraternity hiking trip in the Angeles National Forest.
Armando Villa (pictured right) was on an overnight trip with other members of Pi Kappa Phi when they reportedly ran out of water and Villa lost consciousness on the trail.
Villa's companions found a forest ranger and asked for help.Villa was reportedly found unresponsive with blisters on his feet and back.
He later died at a hospital, authorities said.
Villa's family believes he was a victim of hazing during initiation -- allegedly he was left in the woods without shoes or water and was expected to find his way out.
College Hazing Crimes
Nov. 19, 2011: Florida A&M Marching 100 Drum Major Robert Champion (pictured) died after being beaten by fellow bandmates on November 19, 2011. His parents sued the school.
Prosecutors later charged 12 former band members in the crime.
College Hazing Crimes
March 25, 2014: North Carolina's High Point University is being sued by the family of fraternity pledge Robert Tipton Jr., who they say died as a result of being hazed in March 2012.
The lawsuit alleges that the university president's son was prominently involved in the alleged hazing.
College Hazing Crimes
June 28, 2012: The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at Cornell University was convicted of violating New York anti-hazing laws in the February 2011 death of 19-year-old George Desdunes. Authorities say the sophomore from Brooklyn died after drinking too much alcohol during a hazing ritual.
College Hazing Crimes
Jan. 29, 2010: Rutgers University suspended sorority Sigma Gamma Rho after six members were arrested and charged with hazing pledges by paddling them and controlling their food intake.
College Hazing Crimes
Jan. 3, 2009: The Sigma Nu fraternity and Chi Omega sorority chapters at Utah State University were charged with felony hazing after an 18-year-old freshman pledge Michael Starks died of alcohol poisoning.
College Hazing Crimes
Feb. 14, 2014: The Dec. 9, 2013 death of Chun "Michael" Deng, a 19-year-old freshman and pledge at Baruch College's Pi Delta Psi fraternity, was officially ruled a homicide by police.
The pledge died while at a weekend retreat at a rented house in the Pocono Mountains with about three dozen fraternity members from the New York City college.
College Hazing Crimes
Dec. 19, 2012: Over half of the 22 Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity members at Northern Illinois University turned themselves in on hazing charges after a freshman was found dead in November 2012 after a night of heavy drinking.