{"id":291856,"date":"2025-10-10T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291856\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:49:10","slug":"fallout-of-fraternity-hazing-charges-dismissed-star-94-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291856\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout of Fraternity Hazing, Charges Dismissed | STAR 94.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal cases have been dismissed against\u00a0fraternity members who were charged with intentionally setting one of the defendants on fire during a skit.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors charged the four members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity following a party last year that involved lighting a fraternity pledge\u2019s clothes on fire. The act left the pledge with third-degree burns.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego State University students initially faced felony charges that included recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury, but a judge reduced the charges to misdemeanors earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcourt.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Superior Court<\/a>\u00a0Judge Dwayne Moring granted misdemeanor diversion for three of the students, which allows defendants to have their cases dismissed if they complete certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>He did so Tuesday after determining the defendants had completed a number of conditions that included volunteer work and maintaining full-time employment or school attendance. The defendant who set the fire was also required to take a fire safety course.<\/p>\n<p>The student who was burned did not have to complete a diversion program for his case to be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Larsen, the student who was set on fire, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the California State University system and two of his co-defendants in the criminal case, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen alleges in his complaint that after the skit, his fellow fraternity members provided \u201cinadequate first aid\u201d by putting him inside a shower, wrapping him in an aluminum blanket and waiting around three hours before contacting emergency personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the fraternity members allegedly instructed others to delete videos or group chats regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint states Larsen suffered burns to his legs and back that required skin grafts and long-term treatment for scarring and neuropathy.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the incident, the fraternity was on probation in connection with other hazing-related incidents and Larsen claims San Diego State failed to monitor the its activities and enforce sanctions. The lawsuit also alleges SDSU \u201chas a longstanding and well-documented history of dangerous fraternity-related conduct\u201d and cited the 2019 death of Dylan Hernandez, who consumed alcohol at a pledge party, then later fell from the top bunk of his dorm room bed and struck his head.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing in the civil case is scheduled for later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Criminal cases have been dismissed against\u00a0fraternity members who were charged with intentionally setting one of the defendants on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,149576,149575,3549,44636,44637,18711,36075,44635,7264,10055,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-291856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-fraternity","12":"tag-phi-kappa-psi","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-celebrities","15":"tag-san-diego-concerts","16":"tag-san-diego-events","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-san-diego-photos","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-sdsu","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115349721167857885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}