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The Piazza family with Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller during a May 2016 press conference with the DA's office announced charges against the Beta Theta Pi fraternity brothers.
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Probe into camera erasure in Penn State fraternity death completed

Abby Drey/Centre Daily Times via AP

Probe into camera erasure in Penn State fraternity death completed

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A prosecutor will announce next week the results of an investigation into the deletion of security camera footage at a Penn State University fraternity house where a pledge was fatally injured in February after a hazing ritual.

Fourteen former members of the now-closed Beta Theta Pi fraternity face criminal charges in connection with the death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza of Lebanon, New Jersey.

Piazza died of a fractured skull and other injuries two days after drinking a dangerous amount of alcohol at a pledge ceremony and falling down basement stairs.

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Footage retrieved from the frat’s extensive system of security cameras captured many of the events that day. But prosecutors say a fraternity member erased key footage from a basement camera.

The former Beta Theta Pi fraternity house on Burrowes Road in State College, Pa., where Timothy Piazza died while pledging. The fraternity has since been banished by Penn State University.
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District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller plans a Monday afternoon press conference.

First Published: November 10, 2017, 11:23 a.m.

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The Piazza family with Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller during a May 2016 press conference with the DA's office announced charges against the Beta Theta Pi fraternity brothers.  (Abby Drey/Centre Daily Times via AP)
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