10 people charged in death at frat

BATON ROUGE — Ten people were arrested Wednesday on hazing charges in the death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood-alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving, officials said.

One of the 10 suspects — Matthew Naquin, 19, of Boerne, Texas — also faces a negligent homicide charge in the death last month of 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver, a freshman from Roswell, Ga., the university said in a statement.

An autopsy showed that Gruver’s blood-alcohol content at the time of his death was 0.495 percent, East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Beau Clark said Wednesday. The legal blood-alcohol limit for driving in Louisiana is 0.08 percent.

Eight of the suspects are LSU students and were members of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, according to university spokesman Ernie Ballard. The hazing charges against all 10 suspects, whose ages range from 18 to 21, are misdemeanors.