Fraternity and Bar Sued Over 2021 Demise of College of New Hampshire Scholar

The mom of a College of New Hampshire pupil who died in an icy swamp two years in the past filed a wrongful dying lawsuit Thursday in opposition to the Durham bar and fraternity her son visited that evening.

Vincenzo Lirosi, 22, was discovered lifeless Dec. 5, 2021, partially submerged in a small physique of water within the woods. An post-mortem concluded the sophomore’s explanation for dying was drowning and acute intoxication.

Robin Lirosi, of Whitman, Massachusetts, filed the lawsuit in opposition to Scorpion’s Bar & Grill, the UNH chapter of Sigma Chi and its nationwide group, and a number of other particular person members of the fraternity.

“Scorpion’s, the frat, and the frat brothers have gone on with life as if nothing has modified, however Vinny’s household have been robbed of that luxurious,” legal professional Leah Cole Durst stated in an announcement.

The lawsuit alleges the bar served Vincenzo Lirosi “in a matter that was so steady and extreme” that it created a danger of dying, and that the fraternity violated quite a few security insurance policies and its obligation to forestall additional hurt.

The manager director of Sigma Chi’s nationwide workplace didn’t reply to a telephone message Thursday. Nobody answered the telephone at Scorpion’s Bar & Grill, and there was no response to a message despatched to the bar’s Fb account.

On the time of Lirosi`s dying, police stated he had been out ingesting with mates earlier than he went to a Sigma Chi fraternity get together and acquired right into a battle.

Citing a New Hampshire Liquor Fee investigation, the lawsuit states that Lirosi bought 17 alcoholic drinks on the bar and grill in lower than 4 hours and that he consumed no less than 9 of them. In keeping with the lawsuit, a good friend then invited him to the fraternity, although the fraternity stated on the time that he didn’t have permission to be there.

Lirosi resisted efforts by fraternity members to take away him, in accordance with the lawsuit. A “full-out brawl” ensued, and Lirosi was punched within the head, pushed to the bottom and kicked within the ribs, the lawsuit states.

“Lirosi was pressured to stumble into the woods, visibly intoxicated, battered, and dazed from repeated blows to his head and physique and not using a telephone,” the lawsuit states, “and no individual from Sigma Chi took any steps to make sure his security.”

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