Alcohol Poisoning Deaths
May
2004 - California State University-Long Beach student and President's Scholar
Jason Kirsinas dies after lapsing into a coma following a night of drinking on
his 21st birthday.
March 2004 - Jason
Reinhardt,
a former student of Minnesota State University-Moorhead, dies of alcohol
poisoning on his 21st birthday at the Phi Sigma Kappa house.
Reinhardt has 16 drinks
between midnight and 1 a.m. at a Moorhead, Minn., bar before going to the
fraternity house with friends. His blood-alcohol content was 0.36.
March 2004 - University of California-Berkeley student, Steve Saucedo dies after
an off-campus drinking contest with a group of friends.
December 2003 - South Dakota School of Mines and Technology student Tyler Loeb
dies of alcohol poisoning from drinking while driving with friends looking for a
Christmas tree in the Black Hills. An autopsy shows Loeb had a blood-alcohol
content of 0.55 percent.
December 2003 -
Pennsylvania York
College sophomore Andrew Stephen Hayes dies of alcohol poisoning after attending
a party with some members of the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity. His blood-alcohol
level was 0.35.
October 2003 -
Louisiana
State
University sophomore Corey James Domingue dies after drinking a bottle of rum in
his off-campus apartment. His blood-alcohol content was .43.
October 2003 - North Dakota University of Mary football player Dusten Gailey
dies of alcohol poisoning after consuming alcohol at a house party in Bismarck
with friends.
September 2003 -
Illinois
Bradley
University student Robert Schmalz dies after 12 hours of drinking at Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity celebration for the end of fall pledge. His blood alcohol level
was .33.
June 2003 - Friends find the body of University of Idaho student Nick Socorro
Cannon in the off-campus apartment he rents for the summer from the Sigma Chi
fraternity.
February, 2002 - University of Maryland-College Park freshman Daniel Reardon is
found in a lounge at Phi Sigma Kappa house in cardiac arrest caused by excessive
alcohol consumption. He dies after removal from life support.
October 2000 - California State University-Chico freshman Adrian Heideman dies
from complications of alcohol poisoning after drinking a bottle of brandy at a
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity pledge party.
April 2000 -
University of
California Davis
senior David Thornton dies after downing 21 drinks to celebrate his 21st
birthday.
November 1999 - Duke student Raheem Bath drinks too much, passes out and inhales
his vomit which leads to a fatal bacterial infection in his lungs.
August 1999 - Texas
A&M
University
student Michael Wagener dies of alcohol poisoning after celebrating his 21st
birthday. His blood alcohol level was .48.
November 1998 -
Michigan
State
junior Bradley McCue dies of alcohol poisoning after drinking to celebrate his
21st birthday. McCue drank 24 shots in less than two hours. His blood alcohol
level was .44 percent.
September 1997 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology sophomore Scott Krueger
dies of alcohol poisoning after binge drinking in the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
house where he pledged. His blood-alcohol level was .41.
August 1997 - Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge Benjamin Wynne, 20, dies of alcohol
poisoning at
Louisiana
State
University.
His alcohol-blood content was .588, equal to more than two dozen drinks.
February 1997 -
Clarkson
University
freshman Binaya Oja,17, dies of asphyxiation after drinking beer and liquor with
other new fraternity pledges until they vomit.
September 1995 -
Matthew Garofalo
dies after chugging from a bottle of whiskey during a Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity pledge ceremony at the University of Iowa.
October 1990 - Western Illinois University freshman Nicholas Haben dies of
alcohol poisoning after being forced to drink "rookie juice" - a concoction of
beer, Schnapps, coffee, tuna, eggs, and hot dogs - as part of his initiation
into a lacrosse club.
February 1988 - Rutgers University Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledge James
Callahan dies after being forced to drink "kamikazes," a potent vodka drink.
September 1986 -
University of
Texas
at Austin freshman, Mark Seeberger, dies after drinking up to 20 ounces of rum
during a Phi Kappa Psi hazing. He is found dead in his dormitory room the next
day.