His brothers carried him, unconscious, to a couch and left him there. 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 PennLive.come reports State College Police Detective David Scicchitano was on the witness stand for nearly 10 hours during the hearing. I know; I sound callous, and my view is wayyyy different than other peoples'. 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. The new charges are based on surveillance footage that authorities managed to recover after a frat brother deleted it. Piazza appears lifeless for most of the video, rolling on the ground and holding his head in his hands. The Inquirer explains: "In September, Judge Allen Sinclair gutted the prosecution's case, throwing out the most serious felony charges against the fraternity members and saying prosecutors had not presented enough evidence to support them. In partnership with I cannot stress this enough. In May, a grandjury concluded fraternity members were indifferent to Piazza's condition as they deleted text messages andattempted to conceal evidence of hazing and underage drinking. Sucks that you have to come in basically bullying me because we disagree. 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. Former attorney Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial continues with closing arguments: Watch live. And what happened throughout the night was just careless disregard for human life.". First published on November 13, 2017 / 12:53 PM. before we start calling them 'kids' and letting them off the hook for killing people. The Centre County District Attorney announced on Monday that the FBI has recovered video footage from the night before 19-year-old Timothy Piazza's death. When Piazza was finally brought to the hospital on Feb. 3, he had a damaged spleen. Newly recovered security camera footage from inside a Penn State fraternity house showed a pledge had been given at least 18 drinks in less than 90 minutes, investigators said Monday in announcing dozens of new charges related to the pledges death. Because court recessed without a decision, all 16 men are expected to be back in court in the coming weeks. At this point normal people would call for medical help. He rolled off the couch again and curled his body, clutching his abdomen. "No parent wants to see what is apparently on this videotape.". He died two days later at a hospital. 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. They used this power not to keep him safe but to encourage him to drink to the point where even if he hadn't injured himself he would have almost certainly been hospitalized or died of alcohol poisoning. But until recently, that did not include the basement, where Piazza was found the next morning. He had ruptured spleen and was bleeding internally to the point that he was in class IV hemorrhagic shock (the worst level of shock caused by blood loss) by the time he made it to the hospital. Penn State Frat House Death: Fast Drinking, Slow Death, Frantic Coverup In Grand Jury Timeline, Frat House Death At Penn State: A Who's Who Of The Accused. Two of the defendants waived their rights to a hearing. 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. The reason why hazing works, and why hazing charges exist, is because peer pressure is an extremely powerful motivator. In September, following an unusually long, hard-fought preliminary hearing, a judge dismissed the most serious charges against the fraternity members. Twenty-six people now face charges in the case. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Frat member found dead at accused Idaho killer's former university, Bowling Green reaches $3.9M settlement over student's hazing death, University investigating hazing within football program, Virginia Commonwealth University to allow school-brand beer on campus after frat hazing death, died from injuries he sustained as one of 14 pledges at a bid acceptance party. His parents saying he was perfect, and making it sound like he was kidnapped and tortured is misleading, and could lead to unfair punishments for a number of kids who made a horrible mistake. Feel free to message us. The Beta Theta Pi house was shut down shortly thereafter and remains empty. This may actually explain why we disagree so much Edit 2: do you have a personal connect to this? The fraternity brothers who encouraged him to drink had power over him while he was, for several reasons, unable to effectively say no or fully understand his actions. Tim Piazza (center) is pictured with his parents, Evelyn and James. Let's look at the Wikipedia article about the incident. He was carried to a couch, where surveillance cameras captured the formation of a large and obvious bruise on his left abdomen. The fraternity was permanently banned from Penn Stateafter Piazza's death. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller charged 10 new defendants, reinstated charges against two people whose cases had been dropped and added counts against five who had previously been charged for actions surrounding the Feb. 4 death of Beta Theta Pi pledge Tim Piazza. ", As NPR's Bill Chappell reported at the time, Penn State Student's Hazing Death Was No Accident, Grand Jury Says, 'Horror' Of Student's Hazing Death At Penn State Sparks Change. Piazza's death "was the direct result of traumatic brain injuries," according to the forensic pathologist on the case. The revelation came on Day 4 of the preliminary hearing for the fraternity brothers facing charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to furnishing alcohol to minors. 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. Scicchitano described scenes where Piazza was unconscious. WebTimothy Piazza, 19, from New Jersey died after falling down a flight of stairs during a hazing ritual at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. I can only imagine the anguish of being a parent, and losing your child this way. At various points in between, fraternity brothers allegedly slapped Piazza several times in the face and stomach. For the time he was awake during those twelve hours he was in agony. 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. Prosecutors claim fraternity members I guess that is what has really skewed my opinion of this whole thing. What is he responsible for? Scicchitano testified in court that Piazza "looked like a corpse" the morning after the fall. All of the footage from a basement camera prior to Feb. 6 had been deleted before authorities had a chance to obtain it. Of the 17 fraternity members charged, five now face manslaughter charges. Also Thursday, an attorney for Luke Visser, one of the defendants charged in Piazzas death, revealed what he claimed to be new information indicating that Piazza may have tripped over a girl sitting on a stairwell leading to the basement suggesting it was more of an accident than the result of drunkenness. The prosecutors' case has not progressed evenly since May, as the accused have said Parks Miller is overreaching with her allegations. Twelve new fraternity members now face charges in the investigation. 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. Sure. In May, a grand jury revised that assessment, calling it "the direct result of encouraged reckless conduct." Video on a camera insidea Penn State fraternity house was erasedtwo days after a pledge died followinga night of hazing and heavy drinking, a detective testified Thursday, according to media reports. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. No average person would sit there, make the strange. personal nit picky digs that you were, trying to justify their blatant disregard for a humans life. It took nearly twelve hours for them to make the call for help. "I believe the charges will be bound over. Terms of Use | On Thursday, lawyerTheodore Simon saidduring the early morning hours before Piazza was found in the basement, he could be seen walking to a set of patio doors and closing them indicating the pledge wascoherent andfunctioning during this time, the Centre Daily Times reported. Another 11 frat members are already facing similar charges. Clearly, he is dead weight." "That's the evidence that the commonwealth now has.". From trying to beat him awake, to abandoning him, to covering up the evidence, everything about this shows criminal negligence. What they did was far worse than, say driving drunk and killing someone which would still be involuntary manslaughter. Gabe Gutierrez, an NBC News correspondent, said via Twitter that the courtroom was silent as prosecutors played video of Piazza dying. Fraternity members found him in the basement the next morning andcarried him back upstairs. WebPenn State sophomore Tim Piazza spent his final hours dragging his bruised and bloodied body across a beer-soaked fraternity house floor, stumbling down stairs into iron railings, / CBS News. 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. I don't think they're acting like assholes. On the night of February 2, 2017, while undergoing hazing rituals for the fraternity, Piazza, on an essentially empty stomach, drank large amounts of alcohol in a short time as part of an obstacle course called "The Gauntlet", which required each pledge to drink from a bottle of vodka, drink a beer, and finally drink from a bag of wine. Watch Live: Closing arguments begin in double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege, Watch Live: Garland testifies amid ongoing special counsel investigations, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which has since been barred from Penn State, is facing charges including involuntary manslaughter and hazing. I guess I have just been annoyed with the parents claiming that if it was someone else, Tim would have saved them and walked out. This is a footnote from the CMV moderators. Speaking of which, downvotes don't change views! Not every tragedy is a crime, said Ems lawyer, Bill Brennan. I mean, that's the whole point of this subreddit. Other security camera footage from inside the sprawling frat house shown during previous hearings depicted frat members alternatively holding Piazza down or strapping him to a backpack to keep from rolling over and choking while he appeared to be unconscious. 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. The results of an investigation into surveillance video of the fraternity And Ive had it with you, too.. PennLive.com reporter Christian Alexandersen was also at the hearing. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Piazza was at the Penn State University fraternity for a pledge event in February when he died after falling down a flight stairs. When you get somebody into an environment where they have seemingly no way out, where every authority figure is encouraging or forcing you to drink and nobody would help you, say, leave and go home safely, it is extremely difficult to turn down drinks. 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. The footage was collected by 12 cameras positioned throughout the house, the Inquirer reported. "She has asked that the case be reassigned to another judge, but she is working against the clock. 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. Privacy Policy | That video was shown in court on Monday. 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. Graphic video footage of the night Piazza That's just all manner of fucked up. This was men who intended to force-feed lethal amounts of alcohol into other young men. The district attorney's office in Centre County, Pennsylvania, has announced new charges in the death of Tim Piazza. He seems to want to use it that way, and is manipulating the media to do so. US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has defended giving about 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from the insurrection on January 6 2021 to Fox News host Tucker Carlson. I just wanted to have a conversation. I agree with both of those things. Security footage shows brothers slapping Piazza in the face, punching him in the stomach, and pouring beer on him, but he remained unconscious and unresponsive. "Not going to lie, this footage is pretty tough to watch," Alexandersen tweeted, around the same time Snyder reported the courtroom was silent. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Scicchitano replied he did not, saying the girls were not wearing name badges, and recommended that they come forward to police. WebDr. Investigators say his blood alcohol level was between .28 and .36. 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. There was no premeditation, no joy in his suffering, I see more evil in the dad who wants to take revenge on the men in the fraternity to be honest. A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Not calling 911 immediately is not Piazza fault. How is that murder? WebTim Piazza may have been somewhat complicit in the hazing. 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.. Join Vimeo 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. WebPiazza's family left the courtroom when surveillance video was played. "It really is difficult to watch.". Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Defense attorneys have challenged Scicchitano and claimedprosecutors are zeroing in onselect portions of the video. Host virtual events and webinars to increase engagement and generate leads. Upon arrival, Piazza was rushed into surgery, where he was discovered to have a ruptured spleen and class IV hemorrhagic shock. 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. The next morning at 10am (not a moment before), a search for Piazza led brothers to the basement where I see the frat members as stupid, not evil. 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. Even if they aren't and are just held to the standard of roommates look at the whole situation. Susan Snyder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, was at the hearing. Alexandersen said fraternity brothers were "intensely" watching the video of Piazza writhe in pain on the floor in the hours after his fall. 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's a horrible idea for any crime, this one included. Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Normal people would seeing this and immediately call for help. Doctors saidthesophomore from Lebanon, N.J.,suffered multiple traumatic brain injuries, including a fractured skull and a lacerated spleen. This isn't a mistake, it's murder. The fraternity was supposed to be alcohol-free after a suspension in 2009. Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. "A young man died unnecessarily," District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller (center) told reporters. Firstly, please read through our rules. Absolutely nobody around checking on him? I mean, this is a very speculative statement at best. 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. They left him for the whole night alone. How about the family cool it with the reactions? she said, before turning toward the defendants charged in the case and their attorneys. 2023 Vimeo.com, Inc. All rights reserved. He is estimated to have had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of nearly .40 on the night of the hazing incident. Beckers motive, wrote State College Police Detective David Scicchitano, was to conceal the worst of the drinking and hazing. We'd like to remind you of a couple of things. 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. Happy CMVing! His brothers. Tim was accountable to himself for over drinking, but the rest of the frat was accountable for essentially leaving him to rot and die, despite obvious symptoms of trauma and injury, and likely alcohol poisoning. Look at the definition of murder..I don't like over the top hyperbole and I think that's why this case has bothered me in terms of coverage. Not one person thought to take him to the hospital??? Prosecutors indicated that police would be filing additional charges in connection to the deleted video, PennLive.com reports. 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. Graphic video footage of the night Piazza died was shown for the first time in court Monday. His "brothers," could have handled it better, but it is clear his parents taught him no accountability, and have no idea what it is themselves. They have caused that condition," said Parks Miller. Piazza had consumed at least 18 drinks in less than an hour and a half, according to prosecutors. 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. They aren't assholes. (Abby Drey/AP). Lawyers for the victim's family described the video as "gruesome.". A response like yours is why I feared posting this. 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 They waited an additional 40 minutes before summoning help, police say. Piazzadied in ahospital Feb. 4, about 30 hours after a bid acceptance partyin which the former high school football player fell repeatedly. Piazza eventually staggered to the basement where he fell down a flight of stairs. "His eyes were closed. This story has been shared 102,156 times. Well, we beat him and slapped him, what more could we do? 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. 7:45 p.m. Piazza was seen on his hands and knees in One person even recommended that help be contacted but was ignored and he was left on a couch. He had to have more than half his skull removed to relieve the massive pressure built up from all those head injuries. Heated disagreements broke out while Parks Miller shared hours of evidence with the court, including surveillance video from cameras set up around the frat house. Penn State's former Beta Theta Pi fraternity house now sits empty. He's black out drunk and stumbling around, and he's just left alone? He did not reveal the name of the member in question. I don't think it's cool at all to launch a personal attack like that, in a sub reddit that is about changing view points. They did not call 911 until the morning of Feb. 3, about 12 hours after Piazza fell, the report said. WebSurveillance 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 Prosecutors filed charges against 12 members of Penn State's now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi chapter and added to the already-existing charges against five others. Prosecutors have filed new charges against members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State, alleging that newly recovered video shows them serving pledge Timothy Piazza excessive quantities of alcohol. Third, being stupid instead of evil is not a defense for a crime. Timothy is accountable for over consuming alcohol (under severe social pressure from his Brothers, which could easily be argued as coercion). I'm not involved in this situation, and I'm not a bad guy. In another tweet, typed after those in the courtroom watched footage of Piazza roll in pain on the floor in the early hours of the morning after falling 15 feet, Snyder said: "The courtroom is silent.". 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. Not only have you accused me if being involved in this or something like this, you have decided I am a sociopath. A fraternity is supposed to be like a second family. According to reporters at the hearing, Scicchitano said the fraternity brothers were acting like "drill sergeants" and yelling at the pledges to drink. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. That previous footage allegedly depicted Piazza, severely under the influence, falling head-first down the stairs at about 11 p.m. and falling again around 5 a.m., hitting his head against a metal railing. But the hazing was not the unconscionable part of what happened, and it wasn't what led to his death. Any one of these people could have stayed with him kept him from doing further damage to 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. He drank an incredibly high amount of alcohol and fell down the basement stairs and was unconscious. In this attempt he managed to hit himself in the head several more times and knock himself out again. 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. But, still, they pressured him into drinking too much. 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. He had no shirt on and no shoes on. Updated on: November 13, 2017 / 2:58 PM Meanwhile, tensions were high in the courtroom Thursday, with Centre County District Attorney Stacey Parks Miller turning her back on Judge Allen Sinclair to speak directly to the courtroom gallery, Philly.com reports. First of all, these are not kids, they are adults. 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. Sometimes to excess. 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 In the early morning of February 3, 2017, Piazza tried to get up, but once he reached a standing position, fell backwards. No defendants have entered pleas at this time. Parks Miller, whos leaving office at the end of the year, then refiled many of the charges. And again, we get back to taking responsibility for your actions. Power your marketing strategy with perfectly branded videos to drive better ROI. They are the sole reason he is dead. The 19-year-old staggered through the house, visibly in pain he fell head first several times. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. One fraternity member is accused of deleting the video as police were seeking the footage. Centre County Report. PSU/frat/Piazza? "The videotape is horrible, and it is gruesome," Kline said. Ousted Chicago mayor blames loss on racism, gender but not her tepid response to crime, Hoda Kotb's lengthy 'Today' show absence finally explained, Teacher says she did NOT confiscate student's Nintendo Switch before vile beating, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend film newborn babys first kiss sandwich, Larsa Pippen felt betrayed by Kardashians before apology: resurfaced clip, Fans troll Kim Kardashian for saving sexy two-piece look for kids prom, Heroic bus driver saves student from passing car, Gina Carano's Character Officially Written Out Of 'The Mandalorian' After Cancel Culture Backlash, King Charles evicting Harry, Meghan from Frogmore Cottage, giving to Andrew. They carried him back upstairs, but it was another 40 minutes before an ambulance was summoned. 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