After 48 hours in the hot, dusty Southern California desert, Camilo Losada just wanted to call his mom, get back into his friend’s 1998 Toyota 4Runner and drive home.
“The second I got my phone back, I wanted to call my mother super bad,” Losada said. “I just wanted to let her know I was OK.”
Losada and his friends Preston Obeidin and Diego Collins, all 19 at the time, were in the final phase of pledging CSU Long Beach’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. First, Losada claims they had to endure a weekend of non-stop hazing before driving nearly four hours back to the university…