• Hazing Deaths Database:
  • Blog
  • Storytelling
  • Bio
  • High School Sexual Hazing Incidents
  • Campus Speaker: Hazing & Binge Drinking
  • Hank Nuwer: selected media coverage
  • World Hazing Incidents
  • “Hazing,” “Sons of the Dawn,” “Legend of Jesse Owens”

Hank Nuwer's Hazing Scholarship Site

Follow me on Social Media

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Kappa Alpha Psi

April 27, 2007 By Hank Nuwer Leave a Comment

Excerpt:
One of five Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity brothers at the University of South Alabama embroiled in a hazing incident that injured one of their pledges was in Mobile County Circuit Court on Thursday, where he threw in the towel.

In legal terms, Derrick Greaves, 21, charged with hazing, “stipulated” in court that prosecutors could likely prove the accusations against him surrounding the fall 2005 incident.

In exchange for that stipulation, and with prosecutors and the victim in agreement, Circuit Judge Rick Stout placed Greaves on six months of unsupervised probation and ordered that he pay restitution to the victim.

If Greaves avoids getting into any trouble for six months, Stout said, the case against him will be dropped.

A fellow fraternity brother, Antwuan Lervoi Calhoun, 24, was originally charged with second-degree assault but recently pleaded guilty to third-degree assault instead — again with prosecutors and the victim in agreement.

Stout gave Calhoun a year’s suspended sentence with two years of probation, plus restitution and court costs, Mobile County Assistant District Attorney John Furman said.

The total amount of restitution to the victim, Furman said, will be about $1,000, to cover medical expenses.

A third fraternity member, Bryant Bradley, 25, recently received the same offer as Greaves — he stipulated to the state’s case in exchange for six months of good behavior.

Although only Bradley, Greaves and Calhoun were originally identified in news reports, Furman said Thursday that two others were indicted in the case.

Furman said Jamion Burney and Ricky Patrick were expected to appear in court in the next several weeks and, like Calhoun, will be offered arrangements in which each would plead guilty to third-degree assault and receive suspended sentences, plus be made to pay restitution.

All five were indicted at the same time in August 2006, Furman said, but Burney and Patrick — like Calhoun, charged with second-degree assault — were living and working out of state “and it took longer to get them served.”

Filed Under: Hazing News

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Contact Inquiries

Hank Nuwer

Correspondence: Hank Nuwer at Hnuwer@hanknuwer.com   Phone number upon request.  Available presentations USA, … Email to book a date.

Sons of the Dawn

Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey: Hank's novel is for teens 11-18 but also meant to be enjoyed by … Read More

Hazing Deaths Database:

… Read More

Tallahassee police label December FSU fraternity death an accident, not hazing. Deaths involve FSU SAE and Sig Ep.

Here is the story link The death of a popular Florida State University student found unresponsive inside the Sigma Phi Epsilon house in December has been determined accidental, according to an autopsy released late Tuesday. The District Two Medical Examiner’s Office said the death of William Eppes Proctor, 22, was due to “right epidural hematoma due to […]

Pullman Police Chief Jenkins drops the ball in Big-Little death.

The police chief missed the deadline to post hazing charges. Shame on Pullman Police and the Prosecutor for letting the one-year statute of limitations expire in the “Big-Little” death of Sam Martinez, a travesty, at Washington State’s Alpha Tau Omega house. “We had our eyes on a potential more serious offense, that was manslaughter, and […]

Death of a rookie at Lyon College

The bruised body of James Gilfedder is undergoing an autopsy at this time while his teammates continue to play.   Gilfedder’s parents told Arkansas media that their son’s body was battered, and he consumed a fifth of alcohol at a team “hazing party.”  Police are waiting for autopsy results before commenting.  Media said the house […]

Another 2020 close call — TCU

Moderator: This is the same university that had injured pledges in September 2020: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article218683030.html Benton McDonald  -INCIDENT #2.  So similar to death of Nicky Cumberland at University of Texas–Moderator January 28, 2021 TCU placed a fraternity on probation after a hazing investigation revealed that students involved in a car crash last November had been sent […]

Archives


Hank Nuwer's Hazing Scholarship Site is proudly powered by WordPress