Three men arrested in connection with the hazing death of Southern University engineering student Caleb Wilson have been expelled from Omega Psi Phi, according to the fraternity’s website.
Isaiah Smith, 28; Caleb McCray, 23; and Kyle Thurman, 25, were booked in March following an investigation into the Feb. 27 incident during what authorities have described as a hazing ritual inside a Baton Rouge warehouse on Woodcrest Drive.
Wilson, a former trumpet player for Southern’s acclaimed Human Jukebox marching band and a graduate of New Orleans’ Warren Easton High School, died after he was punched multiple times in the chest, law enforcement officials have said.
Omega Psi Phi pledges were brought to the warehouse and made to change into gray sweatsuits as part of the ritual. McCray and two others took turns punching pledges in the chest using a pair of boxing gloves, according to McCray’s arrest records…