State Attorney Jeff Ashton “thought the proper charges in the case would be manslaughter and hazing with death,” Assistant State Attorney Nicole Pegues wrote in an e-mail sent to the defendants’ attorneys.
Champion died in Orlando. He
collapsed following a beating during a hazing ritual. It happened on a bus parked in a hotel parking lot after Florida A&M played Bethune-Cookman in their annual rivalry football game. He died of internal bleeding.Read more at CNN.