List of hazing deaths in the United States
2010s

List of hazing deaths in the United States

Section Title: 2010s
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Date of death	Victim	Organization	University	Cause of Death	Notes

October 15, 2010	Samuel Mason	Tau Kappa Epsilon	Radford University	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.48)	According to his mother, Mason died of alcohol poisoning after taking part in the fraternity's "family drink" ritual, where pledges are given a large amount of alcohol and told to finish an allotted portion.

2010	Victoria Carter and Briana Latrice Gather	Delta Sigma Theta	East Carolina University	Traffic collision after sleep deprivation and fatigue	Carter and Gather died in a traffic accident around 6:30 am on the way to a hair appointment to prepare for initiation.

February 25, 2011	George Desdunes	Sigma Alpha Epsilon	Cornell University	Alcohol intoxication	Desdunes died of alcohol poisoning following a Sigma Alpha Epsilon ritual that is the reverse of traditional hazing rituals. Freshman pledges kidnap older members, blindfold them, and bind their wrists and ankles with zip ties and duct tape.

2011	Robert Champion	Florida A&M Marching Band	Florida A&M University	Collapse	Champion was a drum major in the university's marching band, the Marching 100. He collapsed after undergoing a ritual referred to as "Crossing Bus C", in which band members must walk from the front of the bus to the back while other band members kick, punch, and hit him with straps, drum sticks and other objects.

November 2, 2012	David Bogenberger	Pi Kappa Alpha	Northern Illinois University	Cardiac arrhythmia triggered by alcohol intoxication	Bogenberger died of a cardiac arrhythmia triggered by alcohol poisoning. "The event that night involved the pledges rotating between several rooms in the fraternity house, being asked a series of questions, and then being provided cups of vodka and other liquor to drink," police said in a statement.

February 17, 2012	William Torrance	Delta Gamma Iota	Vincennes University	Alcohol intoxication	Torrance died of alcohol poisoning after a bid night ceremony.

September 3, 2012	Philip Dhanens	Theta Chi	California State University, Fresno	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.36)	Dhanens died of alcohol poisoning after a hazing event in which 15 pledges were placed in a room where they were told they had to drink eight bottles of hard liquor in order to leave.

March 26, 2012	Robert Tipton	Delta Sigma Phi	High Point University	Oxymorphone overdose after brutal hazing	22-year-old Robert Eugene Tipton Jr. was pledging Delta Sigma Phi when he was found unresponsive in an off-campus apartment on March 26, 2012.

April 20, 2013	Marvell Edmondson and Jauwan Holmes	Men of Honor (local, unsanctioned fraternity)	Virginia State University	Drowning	Edmondson and Holmes drowned during an initiation rite for the underground fraternity known as Men of Honor. Seven students locked arms and attempted to cross the Appomattox River together.

December 8, 2013	Chun "Michael" Deng	Pi Delta Psi	Baruch College	Head injury	Deng died following a hazing ritual called "glass ceiling" while on a retreat in the Poconos. He was blindfolded and wearing a backpack filled with 20 pounds of sand.

July 1, 2014	Armando Villa	Pi Kappa Phi	California State University, Northridge	Heat stroke while hiking	Villa died following an 18-mile group hike with other pledges near Big Tujunga Canyon Road in Angeles National Forest. According to an attorney who represented Villa's parents, the group ran out of water at some point during the hike and Villa left the group in search of more water.

September 22, 2014	Tucker Hipps	Sigma Phi Epsilon	Clemson University	Head injuries after fall	Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge Tucker Hipps was participating in a group run with his fraternity around 5:30am when he fell from a bridge into shallow waters of Lake Hartwell.

November 14, 2014	Nolan Burch	Kappa Sigma	West Virginia University	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.493)	Burch, 18, died of alcohol poisoning following an initiation function referred to as "Big-Little" on November 12. Burch was taken back to the fraternity house following the function because of his "high level of intoxication." Shortly before midnight, another member of Kappa Sigma noticed that Burch's face had a blue coloration to it and was unable to wake him.

November 17, 2014	Trevor Duffy	Zeta Beta Tau (unaffiliated, unsanctioned fraternity)	University at Albany	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.58)	Duffy, 19, died of alcohol poisoning two days after a pledging ritual in which he was to consume a 60-ounce (1.8 litre) bottle of Belvedere vodka.

March 18, 2016	Raheel Siddiqui	United States Marine Corps	Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island	Polytrauma due to falling	Private Raheel Siddiqui, a twenty-year-old Marine recruit, died after falling from a 40-foot-high stairwell landing while running from Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix, a drill instructor who had previously hazed him by ordering him into an industrial clothes dryer several times, causing burns.

October 27, 2016	Ryan Abele	Sigma Nu	University of Nevada, Reno	Head injury while intoxicated with alcohol (BAC 0.30)	On October 16, 2016, Abele, 18, was a freshman pledge when he was woken up with the rest of his pledge class at 5:45am following a party.

February 4, 2017	Tim Piazza	Beta Theta Pi	Pennsylvania State University	Polytrauma while intoxicated with alcohol (BAC 0.40)	Piazza, a 19-year-old pledge of the fraternity, died two days after falling down the stairs while intoxicated. He suffered a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, and nonrecoverable brain injury following the fall.

September 14, 2017	Maxwell Gruver	Phi Delta Theta	Louisiana State University	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.495)	Gruver, an 18-year old pledge from Roswell, Georgia, was taken to the hospital after an alleged drinking game hazing ritual known as "Bible Study".

November 3, 2017	Andrew Coffey	Pi Kappa Phi	Florida State University	Alcohol intoxication (BAC 0.558)	Coffey, a 20-year old pledge from Pompano Beach, Florida was discovered unresponsive Friday, November 3, after a house party occurred the previous night.

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