In a statement after the verdict, Mr. Foltz, Shari, and Cory Foltz said they mourned not only their son but also the men on trial. They said that these deaths would continue until the Greek organizations and the universities that support them “finally put an end to the hacking”.
“We will not rest until the hacking is eradicated on all university campuses,” they said.
On March 4, 2021, Mr. Foltz, a major business in Delaware, Ohio, attended a Pi Kappa Alpha event at an off-campus home, prosecutors said. Attendance, they added, was considered mandatory.
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The new members, the so-called “little ones” or “little brothers” (mostly minors), each received a bottle of about a liter of liquor, which was expected to be consumed at the end of the event, according to the prosecution. , who said Mr Foltz consumed “almost all” of his bottle of bourbon.
When paramedics arrived at Mr. Foltz, his roommate was doing CPR, but Mr. Foltz was no longer breathing, they said. He was transferred to Wood County Hospital and later transferred to Toledo Hospital, where he died on March 7.
The county forensic officer said his death was an accident “as a result of a fatal level of alcohol poisoning during a hacking incident,” according to Mr. Dobson, who said that Mr. Foltz had been four times the legal limit.
In April 2021, Bowling Green, located 20 miles south of Toledo, announced that it had expelled the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity after putting it on probation. That month, eight men, seven of them Bowling Green students, were charged in connection with the death of Mr. Foltz.