On Feb. 2, 2017, 19-year-old Timothy Piazza walked into the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State, wearing a suit and tie. Others sat on his legs to prevent him from rolling over, or slapped him, fearing he might lapse into a coma. Visser pleaded guilty to hazing charges surrounding the 2017 death of sophomore engineering major Tim Piazza of New Jersey. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity and 18 fraternity brothers at Penn State University are facing hundreds of charges related to the hazing death of sophomore Timothy Piazza. Piazza's father, James Piazza, noted that witnesses and several accused members repeatedly claimed they didn't know what else happened to Tim "beyond what was seen in the upstairs video… For the first time, the public may see surveillance video showing what happened inside a Penn State fraternity house before a student died. Piazza, 19, died of his injuries after falling down the stairs in February at a pledge acceptance ceremony, CBS … Timothy Piazza died in Februrary after a hazing ritual at the Beta Theta Pi house. Piazza staggered down the hall, and he left toward the Dance Room and Bar Room. He went to the back, and put his arms around two girls. Piazza's death resulted in criminal charges against 28 members of Beta Theta Pi, in many cases the same young men who were sued on Thursday. In the last moments of footage recounted in the grand jury's report, fraternity members appeared to realize the fatal mistakes they had made. A total of 27 defendants now face charges in Tim Piazza’s death, which defense attorneys have described as a tragic accident. Watch CBS News anytime, anywhere with the our 24/7 digital news network. Hazing incident. Members would later testify that the strategy was one they had used so often with overly intoxicated students, they had a name for it: "backpacking.". Updated Jun 12, 2017 8:52 AM EDT. A pathologist said he had severe head trauma and a ruptured spleen. "How can I not?" Security footage described in the presentment shows him growing increasingly agitated in his discussions with his fraternity brothers. Piazza subsequently stumbled toward the … The criminal complaints for new defendants in the case detail how the deleted video was discovered. Twenty-eight members of the now-shuttered fraternity have faced charges. Yet no one called 911 for nearly 40 minutes. Last month the fraternity said it does not tolerate hazing or alcohol abuse, adding the defendants are entitled to the presumption of innocence. The video tracing Piazza's activities again vanished shortly after 7 a.m. the next morning, when Piazza staggered from the main room toward the basement stairs, out of the camera's view. Pledges showed signs of intoxication, and Piazza had to be helped to a couch. ", © 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC Terms of Use/Privacy Policy/California Notice California residents do not sell my data request. The grand jury that investigated Piazza's death, video footage and preliminary hearing testimony painted a disturbing picture of his final night inside the fraternity house. 10:39 a.m. "In response, [member] Jonah Neuman rose from the couch, shoved Davis into an opposite wall and instructed [him] to leave," the presentment states. "No parent wants to see what is apparently on this videotape," Kline said. Piazza staggered across the dance floor to the stage; he walked right behind Brendan Young, and he walked into Casey. 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. He stumbled out of the camera's sightline, but moments later cameras captured another fraternity member pointing agitatedly toward the basement stairs. Nineteen-year-old Timothy Piazza died … All the while, fraternity brothers did little to help him. It wasn't until three hours later that fraternity members Daniel Erickson and Kyle Pecci found the ailing pledge lying on his back with his arms clenched tight at his sides, breathing heavily and bleeding from a gash on his face. Piazza heads toward the basement steps, passing Jerry Coyne and Luke Visser on the way. A debate quickly broke out about what to do. At one point, the men can be seen trying to dress him, but struggling against the stiffness that had set into his limbs, grand jurors said. Nearly … Surveillance footage shows Penn State fraternity brothers gave Timothy Piazza 18 drinks in under 90 minutes on the night of his death. Who are the Penn State students facing manslaughter charges? At the highest point of his drunkenness, medical examiners would later estimate, his blood alcohol level was nearly 0.40 – almost five times the legal definition of intoxication. “This is the result of a feeling of entitlement, flagrant disobedience of the law and disregard for moral values that was then exacerbated by egregious acts of self-preservation.” Penn State hazing case: Tim Piazza’s final hours shown on video . He screamed for someone to call 911, but the others shouted him down. Timothy Piazza (Tim Piazza) died at the Penn State Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Grand jurors recounted other video footage from just after 5 a.m. showing a prone Piazza, clutching at his sides, as a fraternity member steps twice over his body – once on his way to grab a drink of water and again on his way back to his room. The death of Tim Piazza, above with his parents Evelyn and Jim, was preventable but his frat house brothers refused to aid the sophomore after he fell down stairs during a hazing ritual. By 10:30 p.m., Piazza was clearly drunk. Prosecutors “are claiming that my client [Ems] struck Tim Piazza in the abdomen area, and the video shows that he tossed a couple of canvas-like boat shoes on the sofa where Tim Piazza … Read Jim Piazza’s remarks from the … The Beta Theta Pi fraternity and 18 members face criminal charges following the death of a 19-year-old pledge. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-charges-in-the-hazing-death-of-tim-piazza Still, they did not call 911, the grand jury recounted. The next time Piazza is seen on the footage, the grand jury said, four young men had dragged his limp form back up the stairs, stripped off his shirt, and placed him on a nearby couch. Today's preliminary hearing will determine whether the 18 brothers, as well as their fraternity, should stand trial. They slapped, hit, and doused him with water, hoping to rouse him. Luke Visser, one of 18 defendants in the death of Timothy Piazza, arrived for his preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Monday. According 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 wine in a matter of minutes. Piazza staggered across the dance floor to the stage; he walked right behind Brendan Young, and he walked into Casey. Even as they argued over the drunk pledge, the presentment reports, another young man could be seen in the background of the video falling down a flight of three stairs. Davis turned elsewhere for help, but fraternity vice president Ed Gilmartin allegedly told him that he was crazy and that his opinion meant little against those of fraternity members majoring in kinesiology or biology. One, sitting on a couch nearby, documented his struggles for Snapchat. Shortly after, Piazza apparently fell head-first down the basement stairs. Penn 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, and lying drunk and unconscious as head injuries and internal bleeding slowly sapped his life away. He would later testify before the grand jury that he insisted that Piazza needed immediate medical attention. Read Jim Piazza’s remarks from the press conference on Monday: The video was deleted after fraternity members were made aware that an investigation into Piazza’s death was under way, and police planned to obtain the footage. Twenty-eight members of the now-shuttered fraternity have faced charges. Piazza would die the next day from a ruptured spleen and head injuries sustained during his bender. Timothy John Piazza (September 25, 1997 – February 4, 2017) died as the result of hazing at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania.The incident led to closure of the fraternity's chapter at the university and, as of November 14, 2017, at least 26 members of the fraternity face charges, including involuntary manslaughter. As the hours dragged on, the interest in Piazza waned. 10:34 a.m. Piazza staggered through the Home Bar Room and entered the Dance Room. Around 5 a.m., the cameras captured Piazza falling head-first into an iron railing. 10:39 a.m. Prosecutors have filed a variety of charges, including involuntary manslaughter, hazing, and tampering with evidence. Copyright © 2021 CBS Interactive Inc.All rights reserved. © 2017 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. California Privacy/Information We Collect. Attorney Rocco Cipparone Jr., who represents Michael Bonatucci (who faces eight charges in Piazza's death), said, "I know the Bonatucci family and Michael in particular, certainly feel empathy and sympathy for the Piazza family. ... on video, Tim Piazza … New charges have been filed in the hazing death of Penn State fraternity hopeful Tim Piazza. Tim Piazza died in February during an initiation activity for a fraternity at Penn State University. "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 the news release. Tim Piazza was shown before his death on a video played by prosecutors on Monday suffering from a fall during an alcohol-fueled Penn State fraternity pledging event as his friends failed to … At 4, Piazza tried to stand from his position curled up on the fraternity house floor, only to fall face-first into the hardwood floor. Collapsing into a seat, Young held his head in his hands. Some members sought to wake Piazza by pouring water over his face. Sometime after 7 a.m., Piazza fell down the basement stairs again. Concerned that he might suffocate in his own vomit, a few fraternity members flipped him on his stomach and pinned him to the couch with a backpack filled with heavy textbooks, to prevent him from rolling over. Nineteen-year-old Timothy Piazza died after several falls down the stairs at the Beta Theta Pi building. Eleven Penn State fraternity members will head to trial over the death of Timothy Piazza, according to a Monday ruling from Centre County, Pennsylvania, … Time Unknown: Timothy Piazza falls down the basement steps. With his head hanging low and his eyes closed, Piazza appeared unconscious and unmoving, a livid bruise growing on his side. Though the recording does not show the 19-year-old pledge's fatal falls down a flight of fraternity house steps during a Feb. 2 pledge initiation ritual just off campus, its depictions of the aftermath may be the most crucial piece of evidence in one of the largest hazing prosecutions in the nation's history. When Piazza fell off the couch, a group dragged him back up, slammed him down, and smacked his bruised abdomen hard, the presentment states. All the while, fraternity brothers did little to help him. “This didn’t have to happen,” Tim Piazza’s father, Jim Piazza, said during a press conference in May 2017. Another allegedly pulled out his phone to film the struggling Piazza before heading back to bed. They stepped over his body. In an exchange quoted in the presentment, a friend would later text him that he shouldn't blame himself for what happened. James Piazza and Evelyn Piazza, who were in the courtroom in the morning, left when prosecutors said they would be showing three hours of surveillance footage … With Piazza still on the couch and an ambulance on its way, chapter president Brendan Young and vice president Daniel Casey, both of whom now face charges of involuntary manslaughter, arrived to survey the scene. Shortly after 7 a.m., he apparently fell down the basement stairs again. Grand jurors described the young men as displaying less and less concern over the unconscious pledge. What to Know Trial begins over an allegedly deleted video in the death of Penn State student Tim Piazza during a fraternity hazing. Last STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania - New surveillance video from the basement of Beta Theta Pi shows that on the night of Timothy J. Piazza… The death of Tim Piazza, above with his parents Evelyn and Jim, was preventable but his frat house brothers refused to aid the sophomore after … Dressed in a blazer, a buttoned-down shirt and khakis, Piazza and the 13 other pledges expected to participate in a hazing ritual known as "the Gauntlet." After viewing a video showing Beta Theta Pi frat bothers feeding the … UPDATE:  On Monday a spokesperson for the fraternity told "CBS This Morning," "As these hearings begin, Beta Theta Pi International Fraternity has confidence in the judicial system that due process and justice can and will be served. According to the presentment, security footage shows at least two other fraternity members trying to assist him as he staggered through the rooms of the house. One member would later testify that pledges guzzled vodka, shotgunned beers, drank from wine bags, and played multiple rounds of beer pong at a series of alcohol stations, where they downed four to five drinks in two-minute spans. Trial begins over an allegedly deleted video in the death of Penn State student Tim Piazza during a fraternity hazing. Though the party began to die down by 3 a.m., security cameras kept rolling, capturing another four agonizing hours of the ailing Piazza struggling to move on his own. “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. A new grand jury report faulted Penn State University for enabling a fraternity culture that led to the hazing death of 19-year-old sophomore Tim Piazza in February.. Stream CBSN live or on demand for FREE on your TV, computer, tablet, or smartphone. Luke Visser, one of 18 defendants in the death of Timothy Piazza, arrived for his preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., on Monday. The fraternity -- along with 18 of its members -- faces criminal charges. Michael Bonatucci, Luke Visser and Joshua Kurczewski on Tuesday became the first defendants to receive jail time for roles related to the death of Timothy Piazza, a … A district attorney called Tim Piazza's hazing death preventable. 10:34 a.m. Piazza staggered through the Home Bar Room and entered the Dance Room. All 18 Beta Theta Pi fraternity members at Penn State University were charged for the hazing death of Tim Piazza in February. Penn 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, and lying drunk and unconscious as head injuries and internal bleeding slowly sapped his life away. "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 the news release. He reportedly drank a large amount of alcohol during a hazing ritual that night. Finally, at 10:48 on the morning of Feb. 3 -- 11 hours after Piazza's first fall down the staircase -- fraternity member Ryan McCann called an ambulance. Now 18 fraternity members are facing charges after the death of the pledge. More charges in Piazza hazing death at Penn State. Surveillance video of what happened at a Penn State frat party before a pledge died was shown in court on Monday. "These videotapes will undoubtedly show the various acts which are spelled out in the grand jury report," Kline said. A total of 27 defendants now face charges in Tim Piazza’s death, which defense attorneys have described as a tragic accident. By 1 a.m., Piazza was twitching and throwing up. He says the family hasn't decided whether they'll be in the courtroom when the surveillance videos are played. Piazza was a 19-year-old sophomore engineering student at Pennsylvania State University.He was a pledge of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the university. Piazza ended up dying from a traumatic brain injury, according to court records and testimony. What to Know. Piazza staggered down the hall, and he left toward the Dance Room and Bar Room. An hour later, he staggered into the lobby, stumbled, and hit his head on an iron railing before collapsing once more. All the while, fraternity brothers did little to help him. Piazza died one day later. Students charged with manslaughter in Penn State frat death, Penn State students charged in fraternity pledge's death, California residents do not sell my data request. Penn State student charged with Tim Piazza’s death accused of deleting surveillance video ... One of the 18 Beta Theta Pi members charged with the Feb. 4 death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza … “It seemed like he was having too much fun to be bothered,” Zarallo said. But nearly a half-hour after Piazza's fall, Kordel Davis, a newly initiated fraternity member, had had enough. On Feb. 2, 2017, 19-year-old Timothy Piazza walked into the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State, wearing a suit and tie. Young responded. The footage described in the presentment lays out a harrowing account of Piazza's final hours starting just after 9 p.m., when the fresh-faced sophomore arrived at the fraternity house for what was expected to be one of the final hurdles he would face before being granted full membership as a Beta Theta Pi brother. Eighteen men are facing charges relating to the Feb. 2 death of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza, who died after falling down a flight of basement steps in the Beta Theta Pi frat house. A former frat … Tim Piazza died in February during an initiation activity for a fraternity at Penn State University. Video was played from the night of the party, which showed Visser taking a photograph of Piazza on the couch. Miller says the new video is the basis for charges against 10 additional defendants, as well as seven who’d been charged previously. The grand jury that investigated Piazza’s death, video footage, and preliminary hearing testimony painted a disturbing picture of his final night inside the fraternity house. Lars Kenyon, 19, of Barrington, R.I., is seen on surveillance footage “assisting Timothy Piazza to walk from the area near the basement stairs to a couch in the Great Hall.” Piazza is staggering, while hunched over, “evidently in the care at that moment of Kenyon,” according to the report. “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. Parents speak out on 'The Story' after new charges are filed related to the Penn State fraternity pledge's death. Penn 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, and lying drunk and unconscious as head injuries and internal bleeding slowly sapped his life away. The fraternity brothers didn't find him for another three hours -- and then waited 42 minutes to call 911. "He looked f--ng dead. Video footage from the fraternity's extensive surveillance system has been crucial in the case and helped prosecutors construct a timeline of events that led to Piazza's death. But sadly, just because someone passes away doesn't mean that everybody in the room is responsible.". One of the 18 Beta Theta Pi members charged with the Feb. 4 death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza removed everything from the basement camera two days after his alcohol-related passing. "The dragging of a young man, failing to attend to him, punching him, and other acts which appear in the grand jury report to be indefensible.". For the first time, the public may see surveillance video showing what happened inside a Penn State fraternity house before a student died. The surveillance videos, which allegedly show Piazza's agonizing final hours at the frat house, are a key part of the prosecution's case. "We will continue to cooperate with authorities in all manners to make sure of it.". He went to the back, and put his arms around two girls. Piazza died Feb. 4 at Hershey Medical Center. The videos were recorded by security cameras inside the Beta Theta Pi house on February 2, and have never been seen publicly. Penn State student Timothy Piazza "looked like a corpse" by the time fraternity brothers came to his aid, a detective says. Those disturbing scenes – caught on security camera footage and described in agonizing, minute-by-minute detail in a grand jury presentment released Friday – now form the backbone of prosecutors' case against the 18 members of Pennsylvania State University's Beta Theta Pi fraternity, charged with complicity in Piazza's death. Shortly after Piazza's death, State College Police … Visser pleaded guilty to hazing charges surrounding the 2017 death of sophomore engineering major Tim Piazza of New Jersey. At one point, a fraternity member drunkenly tackled another, landing on top of Piazza's prone form. "It's unusual to have a crime captured from beginning to end," said Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller at a news conference announcing the charges last week. "The videotape is horrible, and it is gruesome," said Piazza family attorney Tom Kline. 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