RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — It’s been three years since three James Madison University students were killed in a car crash after an unregistered fraternity event. Their families miss them every day.
Nineteen-year-old John “Luke” Fergusson of Richmond, 19-year-old Nicholas Troutman of Henrico, and 20-year-old Joshua Mardis of Williamsburg all died at the scene.
“We hope that remembering what caused their deaths leads to safer choices and meaningful changes, so no other family experiences this heartbreak,” Jessica Troutman, Nicholas’s mother, wrote. She called the crash “completely preventable.”
On Feb. 2, 2023, then 19-year-old Campbell Ryan Fortune of Henrico was driving the three men plus one surviving passenger back to JMU from an event at a gentlemen’s club in Hardy County, WV, with Pi Beta Chi, a fraternity not recognized by the university…