Charges filed in SU band hazing incident
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Prosecutors filed felony and misdemeanor charges Wednesday against seven former Southern University marching band members accused of hazing three band members with beatings last fall.
District Attorney Hillar Moore III said the men are expected to plead no contest and be placed on probation.
They are charged with criminal conspiracy to commit second-degree battery, and misdemeanor hazing.
The hazing incident was part of a Nov. 25 initiation into the marching band’s unofficial French horn fraternity, “Mellow Phi Fellow,’’ before the Bayou Classic football game, according to arrest records.
The defendants are:
- Lagarian Bridgewater, 22, of Baton Rouge.
- Clifton Taylor, 20, of Baker.
- Harvey Harrison, 19, of Atlanta.
- Carlo-Andres Carter, 19, of Stone Mountain, Ga.
- Joseph Webb, 21, of Columbus, Ga.
- Jeremy Dixon, 22, of Natchez, Miss.
- Aubrey Harris Jr., 20, of Canton, Miss.
The case has been assigned to state District Judge Chip Moore.
The seven defendants are not students and remain suspended, Southern spokesman Ed Pratt said.
The marching band is active again after being suspended late last year and through much of this semester, Pratt said.
Just as before the hazing incident, Pratt said the marching band and fraternities and sororities continue to attend anti-hazing workshops. Also, band members will again have to sign a formal anti-hazing pledge in the fall for the new academic year, he said.
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