THIRTY-SEVEN members of a fraternity will face charges in the death of a Manhattan student who died during a hazing ritual.
Chun Hsien ‘Michael’ Deng, 19, was at a retreat with the Pi Delta Psi fraternity in Pennsylvania on the night of his death in December 2013.
The New York Times reported that five of the 37 students will face murder charges for their involvement in Deng’s death.
The Baruch College student was involved in a hazing ritual called the “glass ceiling”, in which he was blindfolded and had to carry a backpack filled with 14 kilograms of sand on his back.
Members of Pi Delta Psi tackled him, including lifting him up and dropping him on the ground in a move known as spearing.
Deng complained that his head hurt before being knocked unconscious.
Police say fraternity members did not act quickly to get Deng proper medical treatment.
Fraternity members carried him in to house, where they called a national fraternity official, who told them to hide fraternity items, police said.
Some members actually changed his clothes before they drove him to the emergency room. Deng died the next morning from severe trauma to his head.
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