Toxicologist: Pledge who chugged liquor ‘dead man walking’

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A toxicologist has testified that a fraternity pledge was a “dead man walking” after chugging liquor during a hazing event.
The Advocate reports that Dr. Patricia Williams told the court Tuesday there was no way Max Gruver’s 19-year-old body could have survived that level of intoxication. Gruver had a blood-alcohol level of more than six times the legal driving limit when he died in 2017 after a Phi Delta Theta event called “Bible study.&rdqu