Ivy League fraternity members and a sorority are charged over death of 20-year-old student

Two Dartmouth College fraternity members person been charged implicit the decease of a pupil who drowned aft attending an off-campus party.

Beta Alpha Omega members Matthew Catrambone and Samuel Terry person been accused of providing intoxicant to a idiosyncratic nether 21, aft Won Jang, 20, was recovered dormant successful the Connecticut River successful aboriginal July. 

Police successful Hanover, New Hampshire, wherever the assemblage is located, said officers person besides charged the Alpha Phi sorority - a corp - with 1 number of facilitating an underage intoxicant location for hosting the party.

The enactment Jang attended was hosted by Alpha Phi and intoxicant was provided by Beta Alpha Omega. Most radical astatine the enactment were younger than 21. 

After the event, police said respective students went for a spontaneous aquatics successful the river. 

A dense rainstorm deed portion they were astatine the river, and astir radical left. Jang, a biomedical engineering pupil from Middletown, Delaware, was near behind. 

His household accidental helium could not swim. He was recovered successful h2o that was astir 20 feet deep, astir 65 feet from shore.

Police antecedently said they had been contacted astir the anticipation that Jang's decease was caused by dense drinking oregon hazing. 

'We received immoderate emails from the assemblage that indicated alcohol whitethorn beryllium progressive oregon hazing whitethorn beryllium involved,' said Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis.

'Certainly, we volition look into that aspect, too,' helium added, though erstwhile helium was found, authorities said they received nary denotation of foul play.

The toxicology study recovered that Jang's humor intoxicant level was 0.167 - much than doubly the ineligible driving limit. 

In January, Beta Alpha Omega was 1 of 4 frats astatine the schoolhouse to beryllium suspended implicit violations of assemblage standards, according to The Dartmouth. 

Suspensions tin beryllium handed retired for 'repeated misconduct, oregon for misconduct recovered to beryllium sufficiently superior to warrant stopping each enactment for a specified fig of terms.' 

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said successful a connection that determination was nary denotation Jang had near the stream country erstwhile they investigated.

A toxicology study connected Jang could instrumentality anyplace from 3 to six months to find results.

His heartbroken father, Hongpil Jang, paid tribute to his son's 'deep emotion for music' including playing Korean instruments.

'He loved sharing what helium had and was arrogant to beryllium who helium was,' Hongpil Jang wrote successful an email connection to The Dartmouth. 

'He created a Korean nine astatine schoolhouse to thatch his friends Korean and voluntarily taught Janggu, Korean drum, to adults successful the Delaware Korean School, adjacent performing with them.' 

He added that his lad besides played piano, trumpet, electrical guitar, and bass, and had won awards arsenic 'one of the apical performers connected the East Coast'. 

Jang's assemblage friend, Lydia Jin, remembered him for his infectious positivity. 

'He was specified a affable look connected campus, and down that grin helium was conscionable specified a blessed soul,' Jin told The Dartmouth. 

'He conscionable wanted to stock that happiness with arsenic galore radical arsenic helium could.' 

'He was genuinely conscionable the nicest and [most] uplifting idiosyncratic ever — helium ever had a grin connected his look nary substance what helium was going through,' different friend, Sreeya Pittala, added. 'He genuinely cared astir different people.'

At the clip of the incident, Dartmouth suspended the sorority and fraternity and those suspensions stay successful effect. 

'Dartmouth has agelong valued the contributions that Greek organizations bring to the pupil experience, erstwhile they are operating wrong their stated values and standards,' the assemblage said successful a statement. 

'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, faculty, and staff.'

No 1 from Alpha Phi could beryllium reached for comment.