Overview
- Officers responding to a disconnected 911 call just after midnight on Oct. 15 found a 19-year-old Rutgers student unresponsive at the off-campus Alpha Sigma Phi house.
- Authorities say the student appears to have come into contact with electricity in a dark basement, with police noting possible exposed wiring.
- The student remains hospitalized but is out of critical condition, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
- Alpha Sigma Phi’s national leader said its review found hazing, describing a lineup in which water became involved, and vowed to expel all members directly or indirectly implicated.
- New Brunswick officials have shuttered the property as unsafe and uninhabitable after multiple code violations, while investigators have not publicly identified any suspects or the student.