NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (WABC) — A 19-year-odld Rutgers University student is in critical condition after something happened at a fraternity house. The fraternity says if any hazing is involved there will be consequences.
People who live inside the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity house at Rutgers University spent Friday -packing up their belongings and finding some place else to live following a city order.
Residents were also tight lipped about an investigation into what happened that left a teenager in the hospital.
Officials with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office say police rushed to a home on College Avenue in New Brunswick a little after midnight on Wednesday for an unresponsive 19-year-old student.
“There was like, five cop cars, like all around this place. There’s two ambulances. Two stretchers going in and out of the house,” said another student.
The 19-year-old was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in critical condition.
A source close to the investigation says the person someone came into contact with electricity, suffering a serious burn injury or shock.
While the university and police have not confirmed its hazing nor have they given specific details about who is involved In the investigation, the national chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi says it put the chapter on an interim suspension and is conducting its own investigation.
A statement reads in part,
“If it is determined by the Fraternity, the University or law enforcement that the undergraduate members hazed that evening, the chapter will be closed.”
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