Fraternity Brothers Acquitted on Most Serious Charges in Student’s Death

When paramedics arrived at Mr. Foltz’s house, his roommate was performing CPR, however Mr. Foltz was not respiration, they mentioned. He was taken to Wooden County Hospital and later transferred to Toledo Hospital, the place he died on March 7.

The county coroner dominated his demise an accident “as the results of a deadly stage of alcohol intoxication throughout a hazing incident,” based on Mr. Dobson, who mentioned that Mr. Foltz’s blood-alcohol stage had been 4 instances the authorized restrict.

In April 2021, Bowling Inexperienced, which is 20 miles south of Toledo, introduced that it had expelled the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity after inserting it on an interim suspension. That month, eight males, seven of them Bowling Inexperienced college students, have been indicted in reference to Mr. Foltz’s demise.

The opposite six defendants — Canyon Caldwell, Niall Sweeney, Jarrett Prizel, Aaron Lehane, Daylen Dunson and Benjamin Boyers — pleaded responsible to among the prices, and had different prices dropped.

Mr. Dobson, the prosecutor, mentioned that there have been “completely different plea agreements for various people, relying on the knowledge they may present in addition to their culpability.” A few of the males, he added, might be sentenced on June 16.

Mr. Foltz’s demise was among the many newest to underscore the risks of initiation rituals into school fraternities and golf equipment, which frequently contain extreme ingesting and different harmful actions. Typically, these have been deadly.

In 2018, an 18-year-old Ohio College pupil, Collin Wiant, died after inhaling nitrous oxide at a fraternity occasion. In 2017, Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore at Penn State College, died after ingesting massive portions of alcohol whereas pledging a fraternity. Maxwell Gruver, an 18-year-old pupil at Louisiana State College, additionally died that yr after aspirating vomit into his lungs following excessive ingesting at a fraternity initiation ritual.