A West Virginia University freshman who died at a fraternity house in November had a blood alcohol level of 0.49, police said Tuesday.
Nolan Burch, 18, was one of 20 Kappa Sigma pledges attending an initiation ritual on Nov. 12, 2014, when he was blindfolded and taken to another location where he consumed a large amount of liquor, according to a news release from Morgantown police.
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Only a week after Burch’s death, six Sigma Chi members were cited for hazing. Police said Sigma Chi took 19 under-age pledges to get drunk at a nightclub, dropped them off in another neighborhood, and then told them to work together to get back to the fraternity house. Police threatened obstruction of justice charges for pledges who initially identified themselves as members of another fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon.
In the 2012-13 year, WVU kicked Phi Kappa Psi off campus for hazing after a student said he suffered a concussion and needed stitches as a result of one incident.
