He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in the early hours of Feb. 4. Now it's not just the prior negligence, but further abuse of an injured, unconscious person. Prosecutors claim the former fraternity brothers at Beta Theta Pi waited to get Piazza help in an attempt to cover up their drinking and "coordinate a story.". It would be nearly another six hours before an ambulance was called for Piazza, who died with traumatic brain injuries and a ruptured spleen. WebAccording to the grand jury presentment, around 9 p.m., the videos show Piazza and other pledges in a ritual called "the gauntlet," consuming large amounts of beer, vodka and What these people chose to do was make it worse and try to hide the fact they were breaking campus rules at the cost of a fellow members well being. An example should be made of that chapter, so I would say his parents are more like the dicks that are trying to fuck the assholes that just want to shit all over everything, IMO. WebReporters inside the Centre County Courthouse live tweeted the proceedings as the prosecution played the surveillance footage from the Beta Theta Pi fraternity party on And to answer your last questionno I would not file charges or sue. I see the frat members as stupid, not evil. Penn State's former Beta Theta Pi fraternity house now sits empty. You are asking them to think and act rationally about this, and that is something that is very difficult for grieving people to do. A detective testified in court Thursday that surveillance video had vanished. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? While I don't disagree with your overall premise, rationality largely goes out the window at the death of a loved one - particularly when it's a child. Flanked by Piazza's parents, Centre County district attorney Stacy Parks Miller told reporters that 12 new defendants, as well as five old ones, are facing new criminal charges, including involuntary manslaughter, hazing and giving alcohol to minors. Tim then woke up the following morning still alone and attempted to move. And all colleges and fraternities are supposed to have anti-hazing rules in place. Beta Theta Pi fraternity house at Penn State. He said it was one of the fraternity members facing charges in connection with Piazza's death, but he did not reveal the name in court andsaid the footage disappeared before police could collect it. Lawyers for the victim's family described the video as "gruesome.". Again, these are people who WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM BEING IN THAT CONDITION who were more concerned about the possible consequences for themselves than saving the life of a badly injured pledge. WebPiazza, a 19-year-old sophomore at Penn State, fell down the stairs at the Beta Theta Pi house during a night of drinking for a pledge ceremony there on Feb. 2. The charges filed Monday which range from involuntary manslaughter to aggravated assault and hazing rely on surveillance footage taken during the pledge event connected with the 19-year-old's death. Sucks that you have to come in basically bullying me because we disagree. Piazza, who was left on a first-floor couch overnight, made severalattempts to get up but fell multiple times,in some cases hitting his head and falling down the stairs. Maybe he didn't need to go to an event where he knew there would be drinking, but it's doubtful he expected to be forced to drink as much as he was or that he could have possibly been making rational decisions a few drinks in. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Mystery Surrounds Mom-of-3 Found Dead After Failing to Pick up Children from School, Police Ask for Patience, Missing Nevada Woman Stopped Contact with Family, Police Seek Tips, Unknown Man Seen Using Missing Georgia Mans Credit Card in Baton Rouge. "A young man died unnecessarily," she said. Piazza, a 19-year-old engineering student from Lebanon, New Jersey, suffered a fractured skull, shattered spleen and other injuries, likely during a series of falls inside the house. This might not be as bad as consciously deciding to delay medical treatment, but this is still something the fraternity brothers should be culpable for. He did not reveal the name of the member in question. He rolled off the couch again and curled his body, clutching his abdomen. I posted here because I realized my opinion on the incident is different then just about anyone elses. But the hazing was not the unconscionable part of what happened, and it wasn't what led to his death. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Prosecutors allege Piazza was forced to drink excessively before falling and hurting himself. One of the 18 fraternity members facing charges in the death of a Penn State pledge deleted footage from a basement surveillance camera two days after the 19-year-old sophomore died, a detective testified Thursday. Scicchitano said Piazza had a visible bruise on his abdomen on the footage while being carried by brothers after the fall. 16 students face judge in Penn State hazing death of Timothy Piazza, 'He looked like a corpse': Video shown of Penn State pledge after fatal injuries, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. The hearing, which is expected to enter a fifth day Friday, will determine whether there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. I cannot stress this enough. FULL STORY: Video surveillance from Pennsylvania State University fraternity house shown in court - WNEP. A court affidavit said one of the brothers, Braxton Becker, purposely deleted the basement footage two days after Piazza died but the FBI was able to recover it. Sign up to receive breaking True Crime Daily news, exclusive stories and behind-the-scenes info. WebSurveillance video played in court reportedly shows Piazza repeatedly falling, passing out and tumbling head-first down a flight of stairs, and no one called 911 for hours. Pledges showed signs of intoxication, and Piazza had to be helped to a couch. WebPiazza staggered on his feet down the hallway and turned right into the Away Bar Room. One brother tried to convince the others that Piazza needed immediate medical help, but was ignored. "When law enforcement initially evaluated the video footage, fraternity brothers led police to believe that the basement cameras had been inoperable on Bid Acceptance Night," Parks Miller's office said in a statement. He was carried to a couch, where surveillance cameras captured the formation of a large and obvious bruise on his left abdomen. "The visions of him lying in a hospital bed battered and bruised and on life support make no sense. No other parents have acted like this when they have lost their child in similar fashion. you are trying to grasp onto and shred of bullshit in a weak attempt at creating an underdog hero out of these narcissistic assholes. Reach him at: justin@cbsnews.com. And you actually say that "people need to take responsibility for their actions" yet excuse these animals? Not calling 911 immediately is what changed that story, from a crazy night where he drank too much and a lesson for future endeavors to his death. WebDetectives may have discovered crucial new evidence in the death of Penn State student Timothy Piazza. In fact, on video, Tim Piazza does not obtain his own alcohol at any point rather, every drink consumed was provided to him by a fraternity brother, she said. In September, following an unusually long, hard-fought preliminary hearing, a judge dismissed the most serious charges against the fraternity members. He was pronounced dead less than 24 hours later. WebThe Discovery of Timothy Piazzas Unconscious body is disturbing. The footage, as outlined in the grand jury presentment, shows an inebriated Piazza fall down the stairs. How about the family cool it with the reactions? she said, before turning toward the defendants charged in the case and their attorneys. Where Piazza is not at fault, where the parents have a right to be upset, and why this is a major issue at all is that the fraternity didn't seek timely medical attention that could have saved his life. The reason why hazing works, and why hazing charges exist, is because peer pressure is an extremely powerful motivator. He later tried once more to descend the basement stairs, but fell down again, and remained at the base of the stairs until several of the fraternity brothers discovered him several hours later behind the bar in the basement, cold and breathing rapidly. Surveillance footage from inside the frat house shown during previous hearings depicted Piazza looking like a corpse after his first drunken fall in the house, according to another detectives testimony. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views! It's a horrible idea for any crime, this one included. Advertisement "However, after later examining one of the DVR surveillance boxes, State College Police uncovered evidence that the basement camera footage had actually been manually deleted just as State College Police were poised to take possession of the recording equipment.". Time goes on and he falls off the couch and when he is found off the couch still unconscious he is thrown back on the couch, slapped around and punched him in the abdomen while completely unresponsive. "It really is difficult to watch.". I don't think it serves anyone to blame the other fraternity members and act like Timothy piazza had no involvement. Her successor Bernie Cantorna has not said whether or not he intends to proceed with the prosecution.". He too live-tweeted. It took nearly twelve hours for them to make the call for help. Make me see why the Piazza parents are not complete assholes. The video includes Piazza consuming nearly 20 drinks in 90 minutes. What led to his death was the negligent behavior of the fraternity members after Tim was first injured. "Not going to lie, this footage is pretty tough to watch," Alexandersen tweeted, around the same time Snyder reported the courtroom was silent. The grand jury concluded that, after Piazza was taken to the hospital, there was an active attempt to conceal evidence of the hazing and underage drinking, from deleting text messages to admitting to discussing erasing surveillance video. Scicchitano replied he did not, saying the girls were not wearing name badges, and recommended that they come forward to police. I sincerely doubt you know his parents or knew Timothy enough to espouse his lack of accountability. Graphic video footage of the night Piazza — -- A detective testifying in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday regarding the death of Penn State student Tim Piazza said some surveillance footage from the Beta Theta Pi house appears to have been deleted. WebDuring Mondays hearing, prosecutors showed three hours of video from the fraternitys surveillance cameras of Piazza before and after he became intoxicated, the New York Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. I can only imagine the anguish of being a parent, and losing your child this way. This is a footnote from the CMV moderators. That little rant you went into wasn't cool at all. Piazza was carried to a couch where frat brothers poured beer on him, hit him, and eventually propped him on his side. Now we get into our first example of negligence, when they blew off the brother who could tell something was wrong a short time after the accident. WebSurveillance video inside a Penn State frat house showed a student who looked like a corpse by the time fraternity members came to his aid, a police detective said on What happened to him after that, is entirely on the willful and blatant negligence of his frat brothers. The bombshell revelation by State College police Detective David Scicchitano came during a hearing to determine if theres enough evidence to send the case to trial. I know; I sound callous, and my view is wayyyy different than other peoples'. Piazzadied in ahospital Feb. 4, about 30 hours after a bid acceptance partyin which the former high school football player fell repeatedly. Well, we beat him and slapped him, what more could we do? If you don't think 18-21 year olds should be legally responsible for their actions, fine, but we're also going to have to take away their rights to vote, drive, hold a job, etc. After consuming a lethal amount of alcohol, Piazza fell down a flight of stairs head first. We've received your submission. Second of all, yes, victims of horrible crimes often did something stupid or unwise, which is why they were preyed upon instead of someone else who was more cautious and more difficult prey. He can't protect himself from the alcohol and the injuries, and it goes on and on until he dies, and then they don't render aid at that point. Privacy Policy | Piazza appears lifeless for most of the video, rolling on the ground and holding his head in his hands. A fraternity is supposed to be like a second family. They left him for the whole night alone. Scicchitano testified in court that Piazza "looked like a corpse" the morning after the fall. He was estimated to have had a blood-alcohol level several times the legal limit for adult drivers. This is very true, they really have no good options here. At this point normal people would call for medical help. His brothers. Prosecutors indicated that police would be filing additional charges in connection to the deleted video, PennLive.com reports. Attorney Rocco Cipparone Jr., whose client Michael Bonatucci was accused of new counts of furnishing alcohol to minors and liquor code violations, said he hopes the next district attorney will take a fresh look at the case and some of the charging decisions that have been made.. Two of the defendants waived their rights to a hearing. You know what, if somebody falls down a flight of stairs because they're blackout drunk, you should probably make sure that nothing bad happens to him. The prosecutors' case has not progressed evenly since May, as the accused have said Parks Miller is overreaching with her allegations. WebThe attorney general's office has new evidence: surveillance video from the basement of that frat house on Penn State's main campus. Beckers motive, wrote State College Police Detective David Scicchitano, was to conceal the worst of the drinking and hazing. Everybody so far has been talking about either how the parent's actions are justifiable in their grief, or that the fraternity is responsible for intentionally trying to cover up his injuries and delaying medical treatment after he fell. I can honestly say that would not be how my mind would work. His tragic death made national headlines after it was revealed that frat members didn't alert authorities until about 12 hours after he fell down the stairs. Reporters inside the Centre County Courthouse live tweeted the proceedings as the prosecution played the surveillance footage from the Beta Theta Pi fraternity party on Feb. 2, the night of Piazza's fatal injury. Ok, so they are already violating the alcohol-free provision. But he didn't die because he got knock out drunk; he died because of the head trauma and later mishandling of the situation by people who had claimed to be there to look out for and support him. from Piazza died Feb. 4 at a hospital after consuming what authorities said was a dangerous amount of alcohol, as well as sustaining severe injuries to his head and abdomen. i have to say, if this were just a random person from the general public, they seriously wouldnt be this invested to make a throwaway account to make someone change their simpleton mind and then it results in you fighting to hang onto every tooth and infected hang nail (points which are not at all logical, and seriously only are one a sociopathic, guilty person would be rationalizing) Youre throwing shit to a wall and hoping it sticks, desperate for a new defense to use in court since the basement footage has now been released. He seems to want to use it that way, and is manipulating the media to do so. WebVideo Shows Penn State Fraternity Pledges Final Hours Before Hazing Death. He was just trying to join an organization. WebVideo deleted from Penn State fraternity camera in Timothy Piazza case, police say Susan Miller USA TODAY 0:00 1:58 Video on a camera inside a Penn State fraternity house At the news conference Monday, Piazza's father said he is committed to pursuing the charges against the members of the fraternity, which has been shut down by Penn State. One fraternity member is accused of deleting the video as police were seeking the footage. The results of an investigation into surveillance video of the fraternity Police have said Piazza fell head first down 15 basement steps at around 11 p.m. on the night of Feb. 2, but no one called 911 until the next morning. Scicchitano described scenes where Piazza was unconscious. Three brothers picked him up and "slammed" him back onto the couch. I see the frat members as stupid, not evil. Nonetheless, we d not typically try to blame the victim in order to exonerate the perpetrator in these cases, because that just perpetuates a climate in which those crimes are allowed to happen and perpetrators feel secure that they won't be blamed. Not calling an ambulance for an unconscious, dying person, and instead beating that person up, sounds pretty evil to me. Gabe Gutierrez, an NBC News correspondent, said via Twitter that the courtroom was silent as prosecutors played video of Piazza dying. Parks Miller said in a written statement that the basement video clearly depicts a continuation of the hazing activity previously captured upstairs, including giving pledges beer, wine and vodka. I mean, this is a very speculative statement at best. Let's look at the Wikipedia article about the incident. PennLive.com reporter Christian Alexandersen was also at the hearing. I feel bad for the victims that they have to come back another day," said Parks Miller. Fraternity members referred to the pledge ceremony as an "obstacle course" in text messages, according to a report on the grand jury's investigation. But the hazing was not the unconscionable part of what happened, and it wasn't what led to his death. Piazzas father, Jim Piazza, said his family was making plans for the holidays without the son. Brothers [in the fraternity] were coming up to him and giving him those drinks.". Detectives also found a text from Becker the day after the party, saying Piazza was technically hazed into drinking that much. In another text, Becker used an expletive to say someone had argued against getting the pledges very drunk but no one listened.. I guess that is what has really skewed my opinion of this whole thing. However, I'd also like to argue that the fraternity is also legally and morally responsible for his initial intoxication. After 40 minutes of debating on what the next step should be, the conclusion was made that Piazza's injuries were indeed serious, and that he would require medical attention. Ok, you are right. (Patrick Carns/Patrick Carns). "I believe the charges will be bound over. PSU/frat/Piazza? More than a dozen members of a Penn State University frat are facing additional charges in the highly publicized hazing death of Tim Piazza after investigators were able to retrieve deleted surveillance footage, prosecutors announced Monday. Piazza died as a "direct result of the extremely reckless conduct of members of the Beta fraternity," aided by the permissive atmosphere fostered by Penn State's Interfraternity Council, the grand jury found. Over the course of 42 more minutes, the video footage shows them hauling Piazza back upstairs, shaking him, and attempting to prop his limp body up on the couch. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. Updated on: November 13, 2017 / 2:58 PM "This is about Tim Piazza, and Tim Piazza died, and there should be an absolute reverence in that courtroom," said Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller. Fraternity members found him in the basement the next morning andcarried him back upstairs. Piazza was a freshman taken in by the frat, the senior frat members are both stupid and evil. That's just all manner of fucked up. Susan Snyder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, was at the hearing. "In all," The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, "25 Beta Theta Pi members now face charges.". Authorities based the new charges on the Beta Theta Pi basement surveillance footage deleted by a fraternity member following the 19-year-old's death. He got up and tried to reach the front door but fell head first into it, knocking himself unconscious again. They waited an additional 40 minutes before summoning help, police say. As NPR's Bill Chappell reported at the time, charges were pressed against 18 members of the fraternity, including eight who were charged with involuntary manslaughter. The preliminary hearing for the Penn State fraternity brothers accused in the hazing death of a 19-year-old student has been continued to a to-be-decided upon date, according to reports. "His eyes were closed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Again, letting people off the hook for being stupid is a dangerous precedent, because it encourages criminals to maintain as much ignorance as possible and act stupid in front of the jury. It was estimated that he had .40% BAC and a lethal BAC is roughly .30%-.40%. First of all, these are not kids, they are adults. Happy CMVing! Some time later, Piazza regained consciousness and rolled off the couch. Each fraternity brother faces charges after Piazza had a deadly fall at the Beta Theta Pi house at Penn State back in February. "He falls, gets injured, spleen, head, repeatedly. Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore at Penn State, fell down the stairs at the Beta Theta Pi house during a night of drinking for a pledge ceremony there on Feb. 2. According to several reporters live-tweeting the surveillance footage from that night and early morning, it was hard to watch. Piazza had consumed at least 18 drinks in less than an hour and a half, according to prosecutors. Normal people would seeing this and immediately call for help. The footage, by all accounts, is disturbing. everything that happened after he regained consciousness (although it sounds like he may have already been in debilitating pain by this point) could have been prevented if they had just given 2 shits about a person that they called a brother. He fell down drunk, which initially knocked him out so that much is his fault. Again normal people would have called for medical assistance seeing as he is still unresponsive or at least have a person watch over him but they left him. Terms of Use | His brain had swollen to the point that roughly half of his skull had to be removed to relieve the pressure. Pledges showed signs of intoxication, and Piazza had to be helped to a couch. Timothy is accountable for over consuming alcohol (under severe social pressure from his Brothers, which could easily be argued as coercion). Piazza subsequently stumbled toward the basement steps, then fell down them. Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore from New Jersey, died after tumbling down a flight of stairs and fracturing his skull during an alcohol-fueled pledge ritual at the Beta Theta Pi house on Feb. 4. The surgeons attempting to save his life deemed the injuries to likely be nonrecoverable, and Piazza was pronounced dead in the early morning of February 4, 2017. A lawyer for Joseph Ems, who had previously faced a reckless-endangerment charge that was dismissed by the district judge, said he plans to seek dismissal of the three fresh charges against his client: hazing, furnishing alcohol to a minor and an alcohol violation. This is especially true when the victim is a minor who was not used to binge drinking, and even more especially true after he's already too drunk to make good decisions. Investigators say the frat brothers waited 12 hours to call 911. One of the main revelations from the footage: Fraternity brothers gave Piazza at least 18 drinks in one hour and 22 minutes. Upload, livestream, and create your own videos, all in HD. Former attorney Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial continues with closing arguments: Watch live. This wasnt boys being boys. The new allegations mark a significant escalation in a case that has taken several twists since the Dauphin County coroner initially ruled Piazza's death an accident. Not every tragedy is a crime, said Ems lawyer, Bill Brennan. Web237K views 5 years ago There are new developments in connection with the case of the fraternity hazing ritual at Penn State that allegedly caused the tragic death of 19-year-old I agree with both of those things. Twelve new fraternity members now face charges in the investigation. after reading this entire thread and especially all of your answers OP im getting the impression you are either someone (a brother/pledge) who was there that night, or someone with some type of intimate frat involvement to the case and timothy. The grand jury that investigated Piazzas death, video footage and preliminary hearing testimony painted a disturbing picture of his final night inside the fraternity house. Sure. Edit: Btw, your comment completely justifies me using a throwaway. 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