Wetzler allegedly forced Santulli to drink excessive amounts of booze by putting a tube into his mouth and pouring beer down his throat, according to the lawyer’s complaint. Two fraternity members have also been charged in the incident. The petition, which Judge Joshua Devine approved, alleges negligence against the two defendants.
“We didn’t know about them when we filed the original lawsuit,” the lawyer said Monday. Wetzler was allegedly an organizer of the event, according to the probable cause statement. The family’s lawyer settled a lawsuit with the fraternity. Sister Meredith Santulli said she was “sick to my stomach seeing the people involved that harmed Danny walking around campus acting like they did nothing wrong.”īianchi - who has settled a lawsuit against the fraternity, known as Fiji, and 22 other defendants - on Monday sought in a court motion to add fraternity brothers Samuel Gandhi and Alec Wetzler to the lawsuit. Santulli’s dad, Tom, said the family is “100 percent” sure the student was hazed and calls for felony charges against some of the students. “He’s still not talking or walking, he’s in a wheelchair … he lost his vision, but he hears us and he knows we’re there,” she said, breaking down in tears and adding that they “will not give up hope.” Santulli was allegedly forced to guzzle beer and vodka until he passed out. She said doctors told the family that the young man will need “care for life.” It’s like, I don’t know, I mean a 6-year-old calls 911,” Santulli’s mother, Mary Pat, said on the show. “Just the fact that nobody, they knew he was in distress and his lips were blue and nobody called 911. And that’s an image that will probably never leave my head,” his brother Nick Santulli said on “GMA.” Surveillance footage shows the fraternity brothers struggling to move Danny after he passed out. And it’s just a bunch of tubes everywhere.
“I saw Danny in the medical ICU at the hospital at Mizzou. Several minutes later, his fraternity members scramble to carry Santulli toward a door, but drop him to the floor in the process before finally driving him to the hospital, “GMA” reported. Santuli FamilyĪfter being carried to a couch, he is seen slipping onto the floor, seemingly unresponsive, while another person sits nearby. Daniel Santulli has been left unable to walk or communicate from the alleged hazing at an Oct.
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