Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database

When Kappa Sigma brother Nick Pena traveled to New Orleans for a fraternity conference last weekend, he and his brothers probably had hardly anything on their minds but saving their fraternity’s chapter at UCF.

And they did.

But before he and his brothers finished their drive back to Orlando, they ended up saving something more than a fraternity chapter — they saved a man’s life.

“It was raining really bad,” Pena told the Daytona Beach News-Journal, after he noticed a vehicle crashed in a ditch through some trees on I-75, just south of I-10. “I stopped the car and ran over to the (crashed) car.”

When he arrived in those woods he found a horrific scene. A 2008 Ford Edge had smashed into a tree. An entire family inside was screaming, including a little baby girl.

“The first thing I did was I grabbed the baby and I told the mother to follow me as I took them to our car,” Peña told the paper.

But the worst injury appeared to be to the girl’s grandfather, Melvin Ascott. His teeth were knocked out, his face was covered in blood and his arm was severed above his bicep.

“He kept saying, ‘I need an ambulance. I am hurt,’ Pena told the News-Journal.

That’s when Pena grabbed his brother, Chris Dowda’s, belt and tried tying it around the man’s arm to stop the bleeding.

It didn’t work.
Like us to get news like this on your facebook feed, & possibly win an iPad! At that point, another Kappa Sig brother, Joshua Frost, 21, grabbed a t-shirt and another man grabbed a screwdriver. Pena used the tools to make a tourniquet around the man’s arm to slow the bleeding.

“We had a blanket over him because he was going into shock and I used part of the blanket to put pressure where the arm was severed,” Peña told the paper. “I kept telling the gentleman that everything is going be OK. I kept talking to him until the ambulance got there 10 minutes after the 9-1-1 call and the EMTs took over.”

The four UCF students even helped paramedics find the man’s missing arm 20 feet from where that SUV smashed into the tree.

Ascott was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainvesville. He survived.

Pena was called a hero in the Daytona Beach paper, but friends say he’s not asking for attention.

“Nicholas is very humble about it but he deserves the attention because what he did is so positive,” Frost told the paper.

As for Pena, he told the paper, “I am just glad we saw the car on the side of the road. Once we got to it, I was glad that I was able to do what I did.”

KnightNews.com is working to update this story with more information. Check back later for more details.

When Kappa Sigma brother Nick Pena traveled to New Orleans for a fraternity conference last weekend, he and his brothers probably had hardly anything on their minds but saving their fraternity’s chapter at UCF.

And they did.

But before he and his brothers finished their drive back to Orlando, they ended up saving something more than a fraternity chapter — they saved a man’s life.

“It was raining really bad,” Pena told the Daytona Beach News-Journal, after he noticed a vehicle crashed in a ditch through some trees on I-75, just south of I-10. “I stopped the car and ran over to the (crashed) car.”

When he arrived in those woods he found a horrific scene. A 2008 Ford Edge had smashed into a tree. An entire family inside was screaming, including a little baby girl.

“The first thing I did was I grabbed the baby and I told the mother to follow me as I took them to our car,” Peña told the paper.

But the worst injury appeared to be to the girl’s grandfather, Melvin Ascott. His teeth were knocked out, his face was covered in blood and his arm was severed above his bicep.

“He kept saying, ‘I need an ambulance. I am hurt,’ Pena told the News-Journal.

That’s when Pena grabbed his brother, Chris Dowda’s, belt and tried tying it around the man’s arm to stop the bleeding.

It didn’t work.
Like us to get news like this on your facebook feed, & possibly win an iPad! At that point, another Kappa Sig brother, Joshua Frost, 21, grabbed a t-shirt and another man grabbed a screwdriver. Pena used the tools to make a tourniquet around the man’s arm to slow the bleeding.

“We had a blanket over him because he was going into shock and I used part of the blanket to put pressure where the arm was severed,” Peña told the paper. “I kept telling the gentleman that everything is going be OK. I kept talking to him until the ambulance got there 10 minutes after the 9-1-1 call and the EMTs took over.”

The four UCF students even helped paramedics find the man’s missing arm 20 feet from where that SUV smashed into the tree.

Ascott was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainvesville. He survived.

Pena was called a hero in the Daytona Beach paper, but friends say he’s not asking for attention.

“Nicholas is very humble about it but he deserves the attention because what he did is so positive,” Frost told the paper.

As for Pena, he told the paper, “I am just glad we saw the car on the side of the road. Once we got to it, I was glad that I was able to do what I did.”

KnightNews.com is working to update this story with more information. Check back later for more details.

When Kappa Sigma brother Nick Pena traveled to New Orleans for a fraternity conference last weekend, he and his brothers probably had hardly anything on their minds but saving their fraternity’s chapter at UCF.

And they did.

But before he and his brothers finished their drive back to Orlando, they ended up saving something more than a fraternity chapter — they saved a man’s life.

“It was raining really bad,” Pena told the Daytona Beach News-Journal, after he noticed a vehicle crashed in a ditch through some trees on I-75, just south of I-10. “I stopped the car and ran over to the (crashed) car.”

When he arrived in those woods he found a horrific scene. A 2008 Ford Edge had smashed into a tree. An entire family inside was screaming, including a little baby girl.

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“The first thing I did was I grabbed the baby and I told the mother to follow me as I took them to our car,” Peña told the paper.

But the worst injury appeared to be to the girl’s grandfather, Melvin Ascott. His teeth were knocked out, his face was covered in blood and his arm was severed above his bicep.

“He kept saying, ‘I need an ambulance. I am hurt,’ Pena told the News-Journal.

That’s when Pena grabbed his brother, Chris Dowda’s, belt and tried tying it around the man’s arm to stop the bleeding.

It didn’t work.
Like us to get news like this on your facebook feed, & possibly win an iPad! At that point, another Kappa Sig brother, Joshua Frost, 21, grabbed a t-shirt and another man grabbed a screwdriver. Pena used the tools to make a tourniquet around the man’s arm to slow the bleeding.

“We had a blanket over him because he was going into shock and I used part of the blanket to put pressure where the arm was severed,” Peña told the paper. “I kept telling the gentleman that everything is going be OK. I kept talking to him until the ambulance got there 10 minutes after the 9-1-1 call and the EMTs took over.”

The four UCF students even helped paramedics find the man’s missing arm 20 feet from where that SUV smashed into the tree.

Ascott was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainvesville. He survived.

Pena was called a hero in the Daytona Beach paper, but friends say he’s not asking for attention.

“Nicholas is very humble about it but he deserves the attention because what he did is so positive,” Frost told the paper.

As for Pena, he told the paper, “I am just glad we saw the car on the side of the road. Once we got to it, I was glad that I was able to do what I did.”

KnightNews.com is working to update this story with more information. Check back later for more details.

When Kappa Sigma brother Nick Pena traveled to New Orleans for a fraternity conference last weekend, he and his brothers probably had hardly anything on their minds but saving their fraternity’s chapter at UCF.

And they did.

But before he and his brothers finished their drive back to Orlando, they ended up saving something more than a fraternity chapter — they saved a man’s life.

“It was raining really bad,” Pena told the Daytona Beach News-Journal, after he noticed a vehicle crashed in a ditch through some trees on I-75, just south of I-10. “I stopped the car and ran over to the (crashed) car.”

When he arrived in those woods he found a horrific scene. A 2008 Ford Edge had smashed into a tree. An entire family inside was screaming, including a little baby girl.

Sponsored Advertisement (Story Continues Below)

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“The first thing I did was I grabbed the baby and I told the mother to follow me as I took them to our car,” Peña told the paper.

But the worst injury appeared to be to the girl’s grandfather, Melvin Ascott. His teeth were knocked out, his face was covered in blood and his arm was severed above his bicep.

“He kept saying, ‘I need an ambulance. I am hurt,’ Pena told the News-Journal.

That’s when Pena grabbed his brother, Chris Dowda’s, belt and tried tying it around the man’s arm to stop the bleeding.

It didn’t work.
Like us to get news like this on your facebook feed, & possibly win an iPad! At that point, another Kappa Sig brother, Joshua Frost, 21, grabbed a t-shirt and another man grabbed a screwdriver. Pena used the tools to make a tourniquet around the man’s arm to slow the bleeding.

“We had a blanket over him because he was going into shock and I used part of the blanket to put pressure where the arm was severed,” Peña told the paper. “I kept telling the gentleman that everything is going be OK. I kept talking to him until the ambulance got there 10 minutes after the 9-1-1 call and the EMTs took over.”

The four UCF students even helped paramedics find the man’s missing arm 20 feet from where that SUV smashed into the tree.

Ascott was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainvesville. He survived.

Pena was called a hero in the Daytona Beach paper, but friends say he’s not asking for attention.

“Nicholas is very humble about it but he deserves the attention because what he did is so positive,” Frost told the paper.

As for Pena, he told the paper, “I am just glad we saw the car on the side of the road. Once we got to it, I was glad that I was able to do what I did.”

KnightNews.com is working to update this story with more information. Check back later for more details.
Four young Kappas from Florida help save a man’s life in an auto accident.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon expelled all members of the chapter in which pledge Carson Stuckey died.

story link
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/07/15/1217236/starkeys-approved-of-cal-poly.html

Excerpt:

Julia Starkey was in a sorority and Scott Starkey was in a fraternity at the University of Texas.

Julia jokes “it was a long time ago” but noted they had positive, safe experiences.

Scott and Julia said they talked openly with their son about the risks of sex, drugs and drinking before he left for college.

But alcohol poisoning wasn’t something they knew much about.

They hope other parents will inform themselves and their children about its dangers.

“I just don’t know how drinking has become almost competitive for some young people,” Scott Starkey said. “Now there are drinking games and a culture of pressure that puts lives at risk. College students need to find other outlets to have fun.”

Carson Starkey was given rum, beer, a Sparks alcohol beverage and Everclear, which contains 75 percent alcohol.

He consumed the drinks in a matter of minutes, following direction from fraternity leaders — some of whom encouraged pledges to vomit and keep drinking.

Tests after Carson’s death determined that he had a blood-alcohol level of between 0.39 and 0.44 — five times the legal limit for driving.

The so-called Brown Bag night that led to Carson’s death was a tradition at the Cal Poly SAE chapter, fraternity members said.

“He could have been saved if the fraternity brothers hadn’t been scared of the consequences of taking Carson to the hospital,” Julia Starkey said.

The call

The Starkeys learned of their son’s death after Julia received a midmorning call from the 805 area code on Dec. 2, 2008. She dialed the number back and reached the coroner’s office.

“I immediately went and got Scott and we spoke with (deputy coroner) Steve Crawford,” Julia Starkey said. “I don’t think there was any good way to receive the news.”

The Starkeys have flown to San Luis Obispo nine times for matters relating to their son’s death. They say the community here has been sympathetic and supportive.

And they’ve met frequently with San Luis Obispo Police Department officials as well as prosecutor Craig Van Rooyen.

Four members of SAE were charged criminally; the last two of the cases wrapped up last week.

Zacary Ellis, Haithem Ibrahim, Adam Marszal and Russell Taylor each pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing resulting in death.

Ellis was sentenced to 120 days in County Jail and three years of informal probation.

Ibrahim was sentenced to 45 days in County Jail, three years’ informal probation and cooperation in Cal Poly’s anti-hazing education efforts.

Taylor and Marszal each received 30 days in County Jail, three years misdemeanor probation and 40 hours community service or two presentations on hazing and alcohol.

“The most recent plea results in all four defendants admitting their responsibility for the death of Carson Starkey,” Van Rooyen said. “Hazing is a serious problem and, unfortunately, has resulted in the untimely death of a promising young man.”

The Starkeys have sued Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a move they hope will stop the kind of behavior that led to their son’s fatality.

Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/07/15/1217236/starkeys-approved-of-cal-poly.html#ixzz0tsXrtK2g

Looking at all the hazing assaults that have occurred on school buses made me do a little research into whether or not bus drivers have a duty to step in should their “routine” mirror inspections uncover an attack. This article makes me think a driver could face charges one day in a hazing assault.

VALPARAISO — The driver of a Portage High School bus where three juveniles allegedly terrorized and sexually assaulted other students has been charged in the incident.

Terry Burch, 68, of Portage faces felony charges of neglect of dependent, and could serve up to three years in prison if convicted.

According to court records, the parents of one of the girls, who had her head forced to one boy’s exposed genitals, confronted the bus driver at the bus stop.

Burch allegedly said he allowed such behavior because it was taking place after school and he had no authority

http://www.post-trib.com/news/1453351,p … 27.article