Parents of a 19-year-old who died after binge drinking at a Baylor frat party are suing the fraternity and the bar that hosted the bash. Megan Helal, a freshman at a nearby junior college, died in 2010 after being served between 10 and 17 drinks in two hours — despite being underage. Click below to read the rest of the story.
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She was reportedly dating a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, which was kicked off of the Baylor campus as a “direct result of a consistent failure to comply with University and student activity policies” shortly after the incident, according to the university.
Hours after the party, Helal’s boyfriend discovered her unconscious. She died later at a Waco Hospital, according to the report.
The lawsuit names several members of the fraternity, the fraternity’s national chapter, as well as the owner and employees at the bar where Helal was served liquor.
The lawsuit was filed two days before the statute of limitations was up on the case, KXXV-TV reports.
“They don’t want this to happen to another family,” the family’s lawyer, Linda Turley, told KXXV. “They don’t want another mother and father to get that call early in the morning that their child is in the hospital clinging to life because they’ve been overserved alcohol.”
