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Hazing Death of
Matthew Carrington Chico, CA
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Quick Description: Matthew Carrington
died at the Chi Tau fraternity house from
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water intoxication.
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 7/31/2008 2:46:50 PM
Waymark Code: WM4B2W
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From Wikipedia: 21-year old Matthew Carrington transferred to Chico State
in fall 2004 from Diablo Valley College. He was studying management
information systems, and was asked to pledge Chi Tau by friend Mike
Quintana. The two men began pledging that fall.
Toward the end of the pledge process, Carrington indicated to friends that
he was tired of pledging and his grades were beginning to suffer from it.
Chi Tau forced the pledges to spend the final week, known by the fraternity
as "Inspiration Week," or more commonly by the pledges as "hell week", in
the basement of the fraternity house. The 10 foot by 20 foot basement
room was a cold, damp place littered with cigarette butts and writing on the
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walls, including the phrase "In the basement, no one can hear you scream."
Day One
The week of living in the basement began on January 30, 2005. On that
same day, the sewer line in the house had burst, and the basement was
flooded with several inches of sewage contaminated water. Pledges were
forced to do push-ups and sit-ups in the sewage and sleep in small cubby
holes that had been cut into the basement wall.
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Day Two
"Pledge Olympics" got underway around 11 pm. Pledges were forced to run
up and down the stairs and play Wiffleball inside the house. Due to
extremely cold conditions, they were allowed to sleep in the main portion of
the house instead of the basement.
Day Three
The events of Tuesday, February 1 would last into the early hours of
Wednesday morning. Carrington and Quintana were instructed to stand on
one foot on a wooden bench, wearing only t-shirts, jeans, and socks, while
Chi Tau members quizzed them on fraternity history. If an incorrect answer
was given, they were told to drink as much water as possible from a fivegallon Alhambra bottle or do push-ups on the floor. Cold water was also
poured on them while being blasted by fans. They had to ask permission to
urinate on themselves and were eventually told to take their shirts off with
basement temperatures in the 30s. Near 2 a.m., active Chi Tau members,
Gabriel Maestretti, John Paul Fickes and Carlos James DeVilla Abrille,
arrived at the house after a night of heavy drinking. Maestretti passed out
on a couch in the basement, and at around 2:30 am, the pledges, already
in poor condition, were told they were done. However, Maestretti woke up
and decided he would take over the initiation event instead of allowing the
pledges to leave the basement or sleep. Fickes and Abrille joined in on the
events that would follow. They ignored other members of the fraternity who
came down to the basement on two occasions and told the three to stop.
At one point Carrington dropped the five-gallon bottle and spilled water on
one of the the three actives. He was forced to do more push-ups as
punishment.
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Carrington collapsed around 3:40 a.m. and went into a seizure that lasted
nearly one minute. Chi Tau members changed Carrington out of his wet
clothing and laid him on the couch after wrapping him in a sleeping bag.
Quintana noticed that Carrington had stopped breathing around 5 am. He
performed CPR on Carrington until paramedics arrived and transported him
to Enloe Medical Center, where he died soon after arrival. The official cause
of death was cardiac dysrhythmia and cerebral edema, or brain-swelling,
due to water intoxication. Hypothermia also contributed to the death.
Four young men pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the hazing death
of Matt Carrington. Media from all over the United States came to the Butte
County courtroom for the sentencing, including reporters and camera crews
from Dateline NBC and Inside Edition.
Date of crime: 02/02/2005
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