{"id":106322,"date":"2024-07-10T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dartmouth-fraternity-members-death-prompts-hazing-investigation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:04:58","slug":"dartmouth-fraternity-members-death-prompts-hazing-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dartmouth-fraternity-members-death-prompts-hazing-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth fraternity member&#8217;s death prompts hazing investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-09\/GettyImages_PoliceLights_100223.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HANOVER, N.H.) &#8212; The death of a Dartmouth College student and fraternity member has prompted a hazing investigation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Won Jang, 20, was reported missing Sunday afternoon, having been last seen the prior night by the docks of the Connecticut River on the school&#8217;s New Hampshire campus.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue teams found his body offshore Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death has not yet been determined, but police said they do not suspect foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Hanover Police Chief Charles Dennis said in an interview with New Hampshire ABC affiliate WMUR they are investigating whether hazing played a role in the student&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is some evidence of alcohol involved, certainly from witnesses and talking with things like that. Again, that&#8217;s all part of our investigation,&#8221; Dennis said. &#8220;We did receive an anonymous email this morning through the college that there may be some hazing involved, so we certainly will look into that aspect, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Jang said he had attended a social gathering by the river that night thrown by his fraternity and a sorority, and that alcohol had been present, according to student newspaper The Dartmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Jang, a biomedical engineering major from Middletown, Delaware, was a member of Beta Alpha Omega, according to the fraternity&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Beta Alpha Omega was subject to disciplinary action for an undisclosed incident, The Dartmouth reported.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the college and the fraternity did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>One of Jang&#8217;s friends, Kledian Marinaj, told WMUR he was an &#8220;amazing guy&#8221; who always had &#8220;a smile on his face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had just been talking to him to make plans to grab a meal sometime,&#8221; Marinaj said. &#8220;Of course, I was very upset when I first got the news, so I met up with friends around here, and we went on a walk, talking about all the great things about Won, about how he makes jokes and makes people laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images (HANOVER, N.H.) &#8212; The death of a Dartmouth College student and fraternity member has prompted a hazing investigation, police said. Won Jang, 20, was reported missing Sunday afternoon, having been last seen the prior night by the docks of the Connecticut River on the school&#8217;s New Hampshire<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dartmouth-fraternity-members-death-prompts-hazing-investigation\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}