When paramedics arrived at Mr. Foltz’s apartment, his roommate was performing CPR, but Mr. Foltz was no longer breathing, they said. He was taken to Wood County Hospital and then transferred to Toledo Hospital, where he died on March 7.
The county coroner ruled his death was an accident “due to a fatal degree of intoxication,” said Dobson, who said Foltz’s blood alcohol level was four times as high. statutory limits.
In April 2021, Bowling Green, 20 miles south of Toledo, announced that it expelled the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity after placing it on temporary suspension. That month, eight men, seven of them Bowling Green students, was prosecuted regarding the death of Mr. Foltz.
Six other defendants – Canyon Caldwell, Niall Sweeney, Jarrett Prizel, Aaron Lehane, Daylen Dunson and Benjamin Boyers – pleaded guilty to some of the charges and reduced others.
Mr Dobson, the prosecutor, said there are “different plea agreements for different individuals, depending on the information they can provide as well as their ability to commit a crime.” Some of the men, he added, will be sentenced on June 16.
Mr. Foltz’s death is one of the latest to highlight the dangers of initiation ceremonies for college clubs and fraternities, which often involve excessive drinking and activities. other dangers. At times, these have been fatal.
In 2018, an 18-year-old Ohio University student, Collin Wiant, died after inhaling nitrous oxide at a fraternity event. In 2017, Timothy Piazza, 19 years old, a sophomore at Penn State University, died after drinking a large amount of alcohol while pledging fraternity. Maxwell Gruver, an 18-year-old student at Louisiana State University, also died that year after sucking vomit into his lungs after drinking excessively at a fraternity initiation ceremony.
