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Penn State tragedy: John “Jack” Schoenig

October 23, 2019 By Hank Nuwer Leave a Comment

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Penn State issued an interim suspension to a fraternity Tuesday until more information is known about the death of a 17-year-old visitor in a West College Avenue house. (Autopsy results will be in six weeks: Moderator)

State College police and Centre LifeLink EMS were called to 522 W. College Ave. about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, and found John “Jack” Schoenig in full cardiac arrest.

Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful and the senior Cathedral Preparatory School hockey player from Erie was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no signs of trauma and several others were present when he had become unconscious, police said.

The university does not yet know how many fraternity members were present, or in what manner they may have been involved, Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims said.

“Penn State offers deepest sympathies to the family and friends of this young man,” the university said Tuesday in a news release.

The off-campus house was “allegedly” occupied by members of the Alpha Delta chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity, the university said in a news release. The building is not the fraternity’s official house.

“We don’t yet know what the arrangement was in this instance. The investigation should reveal more,” Sims said. “However, fraternity members who choose not to live in a chapter’s official house do, at times, choose to live together in other houses or apartments. The ongoing investigation should reveal if that was the case here.”

The decision to issue the interim suspension was made by the student conduct office, which consulted with the university’s fraternity and sorority life office and Sims. The discussions were thoughtful, fair, urgent and “informed by the seriousness of a young man’s tragic death,” Sims said.

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