Bowling Green fraternity pledge was "left alone on the couch to die" after alleged hazing, lawsuit claims

The parents of a 20-year-old fraternity pledge who died from alcohol poisoning after an alleged hazing ritual in March filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against the fraternity and several of its members. Stone Foltz, who was joining the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Bowling Green State University, and other pledges were blindfolded, taken into a basement and forced to drink to an entire bottle of alcohol - equivalent to about 40 shots, according to the lawsuit.

Foltz finished the bottle in as little as 18 minutes, and members of the fraternity took him to his apartment, where a roommate found him unconscious, the complaint said. He died three days later. Shari and Cory Foltz last spoke to their 20-year old son shortly before the fraternity initiation ritual was held.