Asian-American frat boys get jail sentences for hazing death of student Michael Chun Deng
Deng was killed after being blindfolded and repeatedly tackled during the 2013 hazing incident; 37 people were charged, and four sentenced on Monday
Four “brainwashed” members of a US-wide Asian-American college fraternity were jailed for up to two years on Monday in the killing of a 19-year-old student during a hazing ritual.
Kenny Kwan, Charles Lai, Raymond Lam and Sheldon Wong pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, hindering apprehension and other charges in connection with the death of Baruch College freshman Michael Chun Deng in 2013.
Deng was blindfolded, forced to wear a heavy backpack and then repeatedly tackled as part of the fraternity’s Crossing Over initiation ceremony in a rented home in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains in 2013.
He was knocked unconscious and later died at a hospital – but not before the boys attempted to cover up the crime while he lay dying, a grand jury later heard.
Police charged 37 people at the New York university with crimes ranging from aggravated assault to hazing to third-degree murder.
“Not one person out of 37 picked up a telephone and called an ambulance. I cannot wrap my head around it,” Monroe County President Judge Margherita Patti-Worthington said.
