Dartmouth sorority and fraternity members charged after student, 20, dies at party

Three radical are facing charges successful narration to the decease of Won Jang, a 20-year-old pupil who was recovered to person drowned successful a stream pursuing a location enactment connected July 6

Members of a Dartmouth sorority and fraternity are facing charges aft the decease of a student, 20, astatine a party.

Two members of a fraternity and 1 subordinate of a sorority person been charged months aft the decease of Won Jang. The student had been served alcohol astatine the enactment arsenic a minor, and was aboriginal drowned successful a river. The Alpha Phi sorority was charged arsenic a corp by constabulary successful Hanover, New Hampshire.

They were presented with 1 number of facilitating an underage intoxicant house portion 2 members of the Beta Alpha Omega fraternity were charged with providing intoxicant to a idiosyncratic nether 21. The charges stem from an off-campus enactment which instrumentality spot connected July 6, which Won attended.

After the enactment hosted by Alpha Phi, wherever intoxicant was allegedly provided by Beta Alpha Omega, immoderate of the attendees went for a aquatics successful the Connecticut River. Police accidental astir of the partygoers were nether the property of 21.

Won's household accidental the 20-year-old could not aquatics but went with the group. It is believed helium was accidentally near down erstwhile it began to rainfall and others left, the New York Post reported. Won was reported missing the adjacent time and authorities aboriginal recovered his assemblage successful the river, astir 65ft from shore.

Police accidental the students had made a "spontaneous determination to aquatics successful the river" connected July 6 though the dense rainstorm saw galore enactment goers who had made their mode to the stream permission soon after. Won, who could not swim, was near behind. Won's origin of decease was confirmed arsenic drowning by the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner's Office.

It was reported helium had a humor intoxicant level of 0.167%. The ineligible bounds successful New Hampshire is 0.08% portion the ineligible bounds for radical nether 21 is 0.02%. A connection from Dartmouth reads: "Dartmouth has agelong valued the contributions that Greek organizations bring to the pupil experience, erstwhile they are operating wrong their stated values and standards.

"These organizations, arsenic good arsenic each Dartmouth students and assemblage members, person a work to guarantee Dartmouth remains a safe, respectful, equitable and inclusive assemblage for students, module and staff.

"Following the tragic nonaccomplishment of Won Jang during the summer, Dartmouth instantly suspended some Alpha Phi and Beta Alpha Omega, and an interior probe was initiated. These suspensions stay successful effect pending the results of Dartmouth’s interior probe and behaviour process, which is inactive ongoing."

Won is believed to person been studying biomedical engineering and economics astatine Dartmouth wherever helium besides worked arsenic a probe adjunct connected a task for the engineering school, People reported. He is believed to person besides studied COVID vaccine antibodies during his clip determination according to his LinkedIn page.