The mom of a College of a New Hampshire scholar who died in an icy swamp two years in the past filed a wrongful loss of life lawsuit Thursday towards the Durham bar and fraternity her son visited that night time.
Vincenzo Lirosi, 22, was discovered useless Dec. 5, 2021, partially submerged in a small physique of water within the woods. An post-mortem concluded the sophomore’s reason for loss of life was drowning and acute intoxication.
Robin Lirosi, of Whitman, Massachusetts, filed the lawsuit towards 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.
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The lawsuit alleges that the bar served Lirosi excessively, posing a danger of loss of life, and that the fraternity breached security protocols by permitting a brawl to happen.
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“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,” lawyer Leah Cole Durst stated in a press release.
The lawsuit alleges the bar served Vincenzo Lirosi “in a matter that was so steady and extreme” that it created a danger of loss of life, and that the fraternity violated quite a few security insurance policies and its obligation to stop additional hurt.
The chief 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 loss of life, police stated he had been out ingesting with pals earlier than he went to a Sigma Chi fraternity occasion and obtained right into a battle.
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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 buddy 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 line 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 with out a telephone,” the lawsuit states, “and no individual from Sigma Chi took any steps to make sure his security.”
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