Authorities say Foltz died of alcohol poisoning — « fatal ethanol intoxication » — during an off-campus fraternity initiation event last month.
Eight young men were indicted Thursday in connection with the death of Bowling Green State University sophomore Stone Foltz. Authorities say Foltz died of alcohol poisoning — “fatal ethanol intoxication” — during an off-campus fraternity initiation event last month. “I’ve often said that this office prosecutes things we would never want to have happen to ourselves — never more so than in this case,” Paul Dodson, the prosecuting attorney from Wood County, Ohio, remarked during a Thursday afternoon press conference. According to Dodson, the event which led to Foltz’s death was a “new member initiation process” for Pi Kappa Alpha’s Bowling Green chapter in which the new members, also called “little brothers,” were introduced to mentors known as “big brothers.” Prosecutors say that the new members, almost all of whom were under 21, were given a 750 ml bottle of “high alcohol content liquor” and told to finish it by the end of the night. “The rest of the event surrounded the watching of the littles attempt to do so,” Dodson said. “It is alleged that Stone Foltz consumed all or nearly all of the contents of his bottle and then was taken home by several other members, including his ‘big brother,’ 20-year-old Jacob Krinn.
