The criminal case in the death of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza was scheduled to continue in Centre County.
The death of a 19-year-old Hunterdon County man at Penn State University is one of 15 in Pennsylvania linked to hazing since the 19th century, pennlive.com reports.
Pennlive, a sister site of lehighvalleylive.com, published Wednesday a look at the deaths compiled by investigative journalist and author Hank Nuwer.
The retrospective comes as the criminal case is set to resume this week in the death of Timothy Piazza in February at a Penn State fraternity. Piazza, who was from Readington Township, died after drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol and falling down stairs at the Beta Theta Pi house, authorities have said.
The preliminary hearing for 16 of 18 frat members charged in the incident is scheduled to continue Thursday and Friday in the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. Two of those charged waived their right to a preliminary hearing.
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Of the 18, eight face the most serious charges of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. The rest face charges ranging from hazing to providing alcohol to minors and tampering with evidence.
A golf outing Tuesday in Piazza's memory is expected to draw hundreds of participants.
Pennsylvania logged its first hazing-related death in 1885 in Hazleton, pennlive.com says, citing Nuwer's reporting: "Edward Turnbach ... was made to run through a gauntlet of schoolmates in which they punched him with their fists, according to the Chicago Tribune. He was punched in the kidneys severely and died several days later."
Piazza's death was the 218th in the United States cataloged by Nuwer but not the nation's most recent, pennlive.com reports; Conor Donnelly, a student at the State University of New York, died in March after a fall linked to alcohol abuse.
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