Fraternity hazing: ‘Brothers’ ignore dying Penn State pledge?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Eighteen students face charges, including involuntary manslaughter, in the death of Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old who died after alcohol-fueled fraternity hazing at Penn State University. One frat pledge says he warned others that Piazza needed medical help, but they waited a dozen hours before calling 911. In this episode, Nancy Grace and Alan Duke look at what a grand jury found in its investigation of the deadly Beta Theta Pi party.

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0:00.0	A national fraternity at Penn State University is suspended after the death of a student.
0:10.9	19-year-old Timothy Piazza, a sophomore at Penn State University, partied inside the
0:16.1	Beta Theta Pi fraternity house.
0:18.4	Left unconscious 12 hours after falling down a flight of stairs.
0:22.8	This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:25.8	Court documents a Piazza fell headfirst down a flight of stairs.
0:29.4	After he was forced to binge drink.
0:31.2	A former member now speaking out, claiming he wanted to call 911 and no one would let him.
0:36.4	I was screaming at the time of my lungs.
0:38.1	I was like, Tim needs hot right now.
0:40.4	Like, he should call 911 right now.
0:42.5	Prosecutors say a frat brother called 911 the next morning, 12 hours after the fall.
0:47.5	18 students charged, eight with involuntary manslaughter.
0:51.2	It seemed like they just wanted to make sure that they themselves were safe rather than Tim truly being safe.
0:58.0	Everybody was surrounding him, laughing and pointing.
1:03.0	A Penn State fraternity brother says he begged and begged to call 911.
1:09.4	For a young teen pledge, he dies after a hazing ritual.
1:14.6	And he was called crazy as all the party goers, the frat boys at Penn State mocked.
1:22.2	Made fun of the unconscious boy Timothy Piazza as he died.
1:28.7	He is dead after an alcohol fueled pledge night at Beta Theta Pi party at a private chapter house.
1:38.0	And one of the fraternity brothers, Cordill Davis says he begged and begged to keep saying we got to call 911.
1:44.8	We got to call 911.
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