by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
July 20, 2025
Wife Of NY Man Fatally Sucked Into MRI Machine By His Chain Recalls Horrifying Medical Tragedy
The man died after being sucked into the MRI machine.
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
July 20, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard Calls For Obama’s Prosecution, Claims He Falsified Intel On Russian Election Interference
Gabbard wants the former president and his then-security officials prosecuted for the 'treasonous conspiracy.'
Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. Director of Natural Intelligence, wants Barack Obama and several security officials prosecuted over claims that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win stemmed from Russian interference.
Gabbard believes Obama and the U.S. security officials “[laid] the groundwork for … a years-long coup” against Trump. She insists this started after Trump’s win against Democratic contender Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“The information we are releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government,” Gabbard said.
Senator Mark Warner, Democratic vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, strongly challenged Gabbard’s claims.
“Tulsi Gabbard is not competent to be the director of national intelligence,” Warner said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on July 18, the Hill reported. “I believe she is trying to politicize the workforce and work product, and that makes America less safe.”
Warner emphasized that a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation had “reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure.’” He argued that Gabbard’s allegations of a “treasonous conspiracy” by Obama-era officials are baseless and pose a risk by undermining intelligence credibility.
According to The Guardian, Gabbard cited the collection of documents complied by British intelligence analyst, Christopher Steele. The former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii claims that Obama and the fellow accused individuals knew the documents held unverifiable information. (Gabbard joined the Republican Party in 2024.)
Her assertion lists several high-ranking officials, including Obama’s own director of intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director John Brennan, and then-secretary of state, John Kerry.
Gabbard added, “Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the President from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people.”
Gabbard intends to pass along her supporting documents to the Department of Justice. She hopes the moves will result in the launch of a federal case against Obama and the former officials. The documents include an intelligence community assessment on 2016 cyber threats, created during the Obama administration and formerly classified memos from Clapper.
“The Obama administration shares the unclassified ICA [intelligence community assessment] with the public. It falsely alleges, based in part on ‘further information’ that had ‘come to light’ since the election, that Putin directed an effort to help President Trump defeat Hillary Clinton,” detailed accompanying papers titled “The Russian Hoax” published by Gabbard’s office. “This ‘further information’ is later confirmed to be the Steele dossier.”
Gabbard wants the former president and high-profile officials prosecuted to the “fullest extent of the law” for the alleged crimes.
This news, however, may intend to divert attention away from Trump’s current political scandal regarding Jeffrey Epstein. Pressure from his supportive base has grown for Trump to release the files on the sex trafficker’s client list. However, Trump has continuously denied the papers’ existence.
He also called the Russian election interference claims a “hoax.”
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by Daniel Johnson
July 20, 2025
Wrongfully Convicted Man Finally Receives Compensation—15 Years After His Release
More than a decade after his release for a wrongful conviction, Tyrone Jones has finally been officially declared innocent.
Although Tyrone Jones has been a free man for the last 15 years, a technicality kept him from receiving wrongful incarceration compensation. But that was remedied when, earlier this month, a judge officially declared Jones innocent of the 1998 murder of 16-year-old Tyree Wright in East Baltimore.
According to The Baltimore Banner, Jones, now 48, maintained his innocence from the very beginning. Initially, he told the police that he was playing pickup basketball at a nearby park before walking to a restaurant called CC’s at the time Wright was shot and killed.
After Jones was arrested and became the only suspect in the murder, prosecutors claimed Jones was guilty by proximity, that because he allegedly accompanied the actual shooter that he may as well have pulled the trigger himself.
Despite a lack of hard evidence connecting Jones to the murder of Wright, Circuit Judge John N. Prevas gave Jones a life sentence on the charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. But Prevas said he was open to new evidence should it be presented because he found the case “extremely vexatious.”
Jones was still sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
It was not until 2010 that the Baltimore State’s Attorney Office argued that Jones deserved a new trial because of evidence that had been concealed: a police report where the state’s star witness admitted that he did not actually see the shooting or who did it.
The Baltimore State’s Attorney Office dropped the case later that year, making Jones a free man. But because the crime Jones was originally charged with was still considered a misdemeanor and not a felony, he was ineligible for compensation under the Walter Lomas Act.
In 2024, the law was revised to include situations like Jones’. Instead of admitting that the office was wrong when it originally charged Jones for the crime, state prosecutors opposed his petition for reparations.
As Neel Lalchandani, one of Jones’ lawyers, told the Banner, “We had always left the door open for communication with the State’s Attorney’s Office to try to reach a resolution that would save everyone a lot of time and energy and, most importantly, save Mr. Jones from having to go through another legal proceeding. But we weren’t getting any traction.”
So she dug in her heels and forced the state to relitigate the case, during which point she and her team of lawyers exposed the flawed criminal justice process that resulted in her client’s initial conviction.
Due to findings that highlighted issues such as unreliable eyewitness testimony, questionable forensic evidence, and possible official misconduct in the original trial, the administrative judge declared Jones legally innocent and approved the compensation he had requested.
Michele Nethercott, formerly the director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said that Jones’ case illustrates the resistance of the justice system to admitting and fixing their mistakes, even when they affect an innocent man’s life.
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by Daniel Johnson
July 20, 2025
Sports And Legacy Go Live: Southwestern Athletic Conference Streaming Platform Debuts Aug. 1
The new streaming platform will feature not only intra-conference athletic events, but original programming.
On July 16, Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland announced SWAC TV—a new streaming platform that will feature not only intra-conference athletic events, but original programming highlighting the people and moments that have shaped the history of the SWAC.
McClelland announced the streaming service during SWAC Football’s Media Day, and hailed the service as a potential gamechanger for the conference.
The service will launch on August 1, and will be carried by most major streaming app stores, including Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Google Play, and Android TV.
“For the first time in history, our fans and supporters will have a high-quality, technologically advanced streaming platform solely dedicated to broadcasting live events and delivering high-definition on-demand league content. We look forward to utilizing SWAC TV as a catalyst to tell the impactful stories and legacies—both past and present—that have helped shape the SWAC into what it is today,” McClelland said.
McClelland is looking to the platform—which will bring with it its own central studio show—to boost the conference’s exposure, enhance fan experience, and raise the level of officiating at all athletic events. The SWAC TV platform, the result of a collaborative effort between various digital platforms, allows for fans to watch any sporting event on demand.
As McClelland told HBCU Gameday, “The beauty of it is now we don’t have to choose which games we think are going to be significant. All of them are going to be shown. We think our fans deserve it…it’s finally here.”
Long-term, McClelland envisions something similar to ESPN or the NFL Network, where games are archived and broadcast as part of a programming package.
“We’re looking for our games to be archived for a significant amount of time. A part of our strategic plan is to get it right here on all of these platforms, then move to some form of free TV like Pluto, where we have our own channel and some televised network on linear TV,” McClelland told HBCU Sports. “We want to be able to go back and show the 1984 game with Mississippi Valley State vs. Alcorn State.”
He continued, “The level of exposure we think it’s going to bring will be highly significant, and it’s going to be more than just football and basketball. We’re going to broadcast all of our sports. Olympic sports, women’s sports. It’s going to be an expanded opportunity.”
According to a press release from the Alabama A&M Athletics Department, McClelland believes deeply in the platform’s potential to fundamentally transform how fans, alumni, and supporters of the SWAC engage with the conference.
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by Daniel Johnson
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NFL Players Union Chief Lloyd Howell Jr. Steps Down Amid Mounting Controversies
Howell assumed his post in 2023.
On July 17, Lloyd Howell Jr., the executive director of the National Football League’s Players Association, the union responsible for collectively representing the interests of the league’s athletes, announced that he would be stepping down due to multiple controversies that have surrounded his relatively brief tenure.
According to The Athletic, Howell, who assumed his post in 2023, has been dealing with a number of complaints about him and the process itself, which led to his appointment following the departure of former executive director DeMaurice Smith. Smith held the post from 2009 until 2023, when concerns were raised over his handling of collective bargaining agreements; the players voted him out.
A search process ensued following Smith’s departure, however, this process has been heavily criticized for its lack of transparency, and the result of that search process was hiring Howell for the role, a few months after Howell joined The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm group that the NFL utilizes to vet prospective minority stake owners in its franchises.
In Howell’s announcement, he noted that he believed the questions around him threatened to distract from the necessary work of the NFLPA, and thus tendered his resignation, which became effective upon his announcement.
“It’s clear that my leadership has become a distraction to the important work the NFLPA advances every day,” Howell wrote in the statement. “…I hope this will allow the NFLPA to maintain its focus on its player members ahead of the upcoming season.”
He continued, “I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish at the NFLPA over the past two years. I will be rooting for the players from the sidelines as loud as ever, and I know the NFLPA will continue to ensure that players remain firmly at the center of football’s future.”
The questions surrounding Howell only intensified after it was revealed earlier in July that the NFL and the NFLPA entered into a confidentiality agreement to conceal information about an arbitration agreement that all but confirmed the NFL owners engaged in collusion to keep players from receiving too many guaranteed contracts.
Officially, the arbitration judge ruled that there was not enough evidence that the owners colluded, but somehow, when perennial MVP candidate Lamar Jackson indicated in 2023 that he wanted a better deal than the Baltimore Ravens were offering, suddenly, quarterback poor franchises like the Atlanta Falcons decided he wasn’t worth the fully guaranteed contract that he was reportedly seeking.
It is worth noting that the NFL is the only major American sport that does not award players fully guaranteed contracts. Generally, this is a point of contention in most CBA negotiations between the players and the owners.
In his ruling, arbitrator Christopher Dorney noted that although the evidence did not support a clear ruling of collusion, “by a clear preponderance of the evidence,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s lawyers did encourage owners to restrict guaranteed money in player contracts.
Despite Howell’s resignation, however, subsequent reports, including one from ESPN, indicated that in 2023, he had expensed the NFLPA for a car service at the popular Miami-area gentlemen’s club Tootsie’s Cabaret. At another point, Howell allegedly itemized $2,426 in charges, including cash withdrawals from an ATM in the club ranging between $200 and $525.
Howell has not addressed this latest round of allegations, and the NFLPA itself is looking to turn the page on the Lloyd Howell-era quickly; currently, the leading candidates to replace Howell are J.C. Trotter, a former center, former union president and the current NFLPA chief strategy officer; and Don Davis, but whichever of the two men is named the interim executive director, neither will ascend to the permanent role as the NFLPA weighs its next steps following the tumultuous leadership of Howell.
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Roll Academy Duo Share Their Journey And Celebrate National Ice Cream Day With Sweet Scoops
Bariangela Segovia shares with BLACK ENTERPRISE how she and childhood friend Maliyah Bass turned a spring break idea into a hands-on rolled ice cream experience.
Founded by Bariangela Segovia and Maliyah Bass, The Roll Academy provides an immersive experience for its customers. Participants are walked through the process of creating the popular treat. The women started as childhood friends and have grown into entrepreneurs offering a one-of-a-kind experience found nowhere else in the country.
Segovia spoke with BLACK ENTERPRISE about the evolution of Roll Academy, initial business challenges, and giving back to their Tennessee community on National Ice Cream Day, July 20.
What first inspired you to pursue such a niche business?
We went on a spring break trip to New York. At the time, rolled ice cream was trending. The experience was just super captivating. We had never seen anything like it, and the line was wrapped around the building. As we were eating our ice cream, we were like ‘this is so cool, but we can make it better.’
After graduating from Belmont and Middle Tennessee State and finding the corporate world unfulfilling, you and Bass decided to revisit a business idea born during spring break—launching a rolled ice cream truck with just a $1,500 investment and a van from a local church. What were some of the biggest challenges you faced in those early days as first-time entrepreneurs?
We have specific ice plates that we use that were not easily accessible for us to purchase. We had to contact someone in China to get this machine. So, there was a language barrier. Once we finally got the machines, we didn’t know how to work them. We quickly got on YouTube and Google. We watched the technique of others and how they did it and just kind of mimicked it.
How did you determine where your market is and which areas were prime?
Maliyah’s parents have been in the food truck industry for a while. They helped us with the ropes of everything. Also, Nashville is a city that has a high presence of food trucks. We went around to different popular parks. We searched online for different festivals to enter into.
You branched out from the bus and opened a physical location in 2020? Was it a smooth transition?
One of the biggest challenges was funding, construction, different contracts, and the right permits. You have to have money to do those things.
When did you realize that beyond providing rolled ice cream, you should also provide a hands-on experience?
Customers were very intrigued by the process; they had cameras out videoing the entire process. They asked, ‘How is this even possible?’ ‘What type of cold plate is that like?’ ‘Is it nitrogen?’ All the questions and the curiosity from our consumers led me to think that they would love to have that hands-on, face-to-face experience themselves.
The first iteration of the Roll Academy was created in your, now-closed, Germantown storefront. It is now a full-service academy that includes instruction on technique and education.
It was a hit. Date nights, birthday parties, girl night out; everyone wanted to do it.
How do you ensure that this experience is accessible and enjoyable for all ages?
We try to keep the experience down to a minimum when it comes to difficulty level. We have non-diary options people can come to if they’re lactose or gluten free. It’s a broad spectrum of accessibility, from the actual physical activity to the actual product. We make sure that it fits your needs for who you are as an individual.
How do you envision scaling The Roll Academy in the next 3–5 years?
There’s definitely plans to branch out. However, right now, we are trying to create and build on the foundation we have and get as many people as possible into our current location.
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To celebrate National Ice Cream Day, Rolled4Ever partnered with Grammy-nominated record producer Tay Keith to give away free ice cream to Tennessee residents. The Roll Bus will be parked at the Nashville Farmers Market from Noon to 2:00 P.M. Additionally, for those interested in the Roll Academy experience, the physical location is also within the Nashville Farmers Market.
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LeBron James And Naomi Osaka Team Up To Showcase How Athletes Spend Their Day Off
The project, entitled 'Off Day,' released its first episode showcasing Osaka giving a guided tour of her native Tokyo, Japan.
NBA superstar LeBron James and tennis star Naomi Osaka have joined forces to explore how professional athletes utilize their days away from competing in their home cities. James’ Uninterrupted platform, Osaka’s Hana Kuma production company, and UltraBoom Media, best known for “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” are collaborating on the bi-weekly project.
According to Variety, the project, entitled “Off Day,” released its first episode on July 16. That episode showcases Osaka taking the crew with her on a guided tour of her native Tokyo, Japan. As is appropriate given the gravitas of both James and Osaka, the guest list is filled with stars from the MLB, NBA, and the WTA.
Toronto Blue Jays superstar first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Houston Rockets franchise centerpiece Alperen Şengün, and the world’s No. 1 tennis player on the women’s circuit, Aryna Sabalenka, will be featured in subsequent episodes, with the former pair touring their native cities of Toronto and Istanbul, while Sabalenka, who is Belarusian, tours New York City.
According to Variety‘s report, the series is the first of its kind. The show, which features high-profile athletes traveling in various world cities, functions as a kind of travelog, based on its partnership with The Infatuation, Chase Travel, and Chase Sapphire as well as comments from UltraBoom co-founder Erik Osterholm in a press release.
“’Off Day’ sits at the intersection of two of our most celebrated universal languages, food and sports. Two things that transcend borders, languages, and cultures. The show reflects the kind of storytelling we set out to create when launching UltraBoom Media, leaning into our diverse global production and creative experience,” Osterholm said.
He continued, “We love that ‘Off Day’ hands the storytelling baton to the athletes, immersing us in their POV and is designed for a new world of entertainment and audience engagement. ‘Off Day’ is a show, but it’s also a limitless brand that we’re excited to share with the world.”
Osaka revealed she felt honored to be the featured athlete for the debut episode.
“As both an executive producer and someone featured in the first episode, ‘Off Day’ is really special to me. We created Hana Kuma to tell layered, honest stories like this — ones that go beyond the game and show the person. I’m proud to kick it off and to collaborate with Uninterrupted and UBM, who share our vision of showing athletes in a fuller, more human light,” Osaka said.
The project is the second collaboration between James’ Uninterrupted and Osaka’s Hana Kuma production company, following “The Second Set,” a documentary that followed Osaka as she prepared to make her return to tennis after the birth of her first child. That film, produced by Nike, will forgo a premiere on more established streaming networks and will instead come to Tubi in August.
Like Osaka’s documentary, Uninterrupted’s Vice President Elyse Kellogg noted in her comments that the series is a reflection of the company’s “commitment to creative storytelling from the athlete’s point of view by giving fans a deeper look into the culture and lifestyle of their favorite athletes. It also marks a broader effort to grow our storytelling and distribution through strategic partnerships — in ways that feel personal and relatable.”
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British Royal Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Alleged Naming Black Pet Sheep ‘Venus’ And ‘Serena’
The claim is tied to Princess Michael of Kent, who allegedly named her black sheep after Venus and Serena Williams.
Author Aatish Taseer recently revisited claims about casual racism within the British royal family during a brief conversation on the “Tell Me About Your Father” podcast, hosted by Matt Phillips. The interview, which was also discussed on the podcast’s Substack, touched on an anecdote Taseer previously shared about Princess Michael of Kent, specifically, that she once named two black sheep “Venus” and “Serena,” after American tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams.
Taseer first made this claim in a 2018 Vanity Fair article, in which he described his experiences while dating Lady Gabriella Windsor, a cousin of King Charles. The recent mention has brought renewed attention to his earlier comments and sparked further discussion online about the royal family’s relationship with race.
According to The Daily Beast, while Taseer’s comments on the podcast were brief, they were consistent with his earlier written account. British media outlets, including The Daily Mail, have since picked up on the renewed attention.
In 2021, following Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle’s public revelation that unnamed members of the royal family had made racist remarks about their son Archie’s skin tone, The Guardian investigated the monarchy’s history and uncovered documented evidence of institutional racism within the royal household.
According to their reporting, which, unlike the claims from Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, or Taaser, is not based on anecdotes or personal experience, but on documents in the British National Archives.
Those documents, per their reporting, depict an instance of the royal family using its power and influence to sidestep legislation enacted in the United Kingdom to prevent discrimination in the workplace, including hiring people based on the color of their skin, an exemption known as “Queen’s consent,” which they noted at the time of their reporting was still in practice.
The royal family took exception to the newspaper’s use of conversations between the Queen’s Chief Financial Officer, James Callaghan, and a number of civil servants in 1968, but issued no official apology for enacting “Queen’s consent” in a statement it issued after the bombshell report was published.
“The Royal Household and the Sovereign comply with the provisions of the Equality Act, in principle and in practice,” the palace told CNN in a statement. “This is reflected in the diversity, inclusion, and dignity at work policies, procedures and practices within the Royal Household.”
Despite this, Kehinde Andrews, a professor of Black studies at Birmingham City University, noted at the time that the story published by The Guardian was unlikely to shift the majority opinion of the royal family.
“These debates are not about rational thinking or evidence. People will probably put it into the context of it being historical and of its time,” Andrews told CNN. “The royal family has a terrible record on race, but no incident has radically changed thinking before, so why would it now?”
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by Mary Spiller
July 19, 2025
50 Cent Sues Ex-Girlfriend Over Explosive Instagram Videos–Claims He Owns Her Life Rights
50 Cent is suing his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins for allegedly violating a life rights agreement she signed nearly two decades ago.
Rapper and entrepreneur Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is taking legal action against his ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, claiming she violated a nearly two-decade-old agreement regarding the rights to her life story.
According to a lawsuit filed by Jackson’s publishing company, G-Unit Books, Tompkins breached a “life rights agreement” she signed in 2007. The deal, reportedly worth $80,000, gave Jackson exclusive rights to publicize Tompkins’ life story, including her past relationship with him. The couple dated during the 1990s and early 2000s and share a son, Marquise Jackson.
The lawsuit argues that Jackson entered into the agreement not only to secure potential biographical or autobiographical projects but also to prevent Tompkins from profiting off their relationship.
“Jackson purchased these rights to preserve them for use in future biographical or autobiographical projects, but also in part because he was concerned that Tompkins would attempt to monetize their history and his name,” the complaint states. “His concerns were ultimately proven correct.”
The complaint alleges that Tompkins posted social media content that draws on personal details of their relationship, allegedly violating the exclusivity of the agreement.
G-Unit Books claims her videos have harmed the value of the rights they obtained, stating the posts are “diminish[ing] the value of the exclusive rights it acquired and undermin[ing] its ability to develop and market future works based on those rights.”
The publishing company is now seeking $1 million in damages and has requested a court order that would require Tompkins to remove the existing posts and prevent her from sharing similar content in the future.
While Tompkins and Jackson have not issued formal public comments, the rapper reacted to the lawsuit in an Instagram post. Sharing a screenshot from TMZ, Jackson mocked Tompkins’ appearance, writing, “I didn’t realize how much she looks like me, girl you handsome with them baby hairs.”
This case is Jackson’s second legal battle in recent months. In April, he filed a lawsuit against the producers of the upcoming horror film, Skillhouse, claiming that he had never been paid for his performance. Jackson alleges he filmed his scenes before the contract was finalized, assuming compensation would follow—but no agreement was ultimately reached.
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Southern University Expels Omega Psi Phi Fraternity After Hazing Death Of Student Caleb Wilson
A university investigation found the fraternity responsible for Wilson’s death during a violent initiation ritual.
Southern University has officially removed the Omega Psi Phi fraternity from its campus following the hazing death of student Caleb Wilson. The expulsion was made public on July 18, although university officials stated that the decision had been in effect since April 24.
According to a university spokesperson, the school’s Division of Student Affairs found the fraternity responsible for the incident that led to Wilson’s death and took disciplinary action against the Beta Sigma chapter.
As a result, the fraternity is no longer recognized as a student organization at Southern University and must remove all associated symbols from campus. That includes fraternity plots, benches, monuments, trees, and any other items marking Omega Psi Phi’s presence.
According to WAFB, the move follows the death of 20-year-old Caleb Wilson, a mechanical engineering major and talented trumpet player in Southern’s renowned Human Jukebox marching band.
Wilson collapsed during a hazing ritual at a Baton Rouge warehouse and later died from his injuries.
Initially, fraternity members told authorities that Wilson had been hit while playing basketball at a park. They dropped him off at the hospital wearing only socks and sweatpants. However, the truth later emerged that Wilson had been repeatedly punched in the chest during a fraternity ritual.
Three fraternity members — Caleb McCray, 24; Kyle Thurman, 25; and Isaiah Smith, 29 — were arrested in connection with the hazing. All three face charges of criminal hazing, while McCray also faces a manslaughter charge for allegedly delivering the fatal blows.
Police say the pledges were lined up and punched four times in the chest while wearing black boxing gloves, which were later recovered from the warehouse.
Isaiah Smith, who was the chapter’s dean of pledges, was responsible for organizing the recruitment events, including the ritual that led to Wilson’s death. His father, Todd Smith, was leasing the Woodcrest Drive warehouse where the hazing took place for his business, California Hardwood Floors.
The university has not issued further comments but confirmed that the fraternity has lost all privileges and must completely dismantle its presence on campus.
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