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Tallahassee Police say Sean Hobson, Aaron Golson, and James Harris beat 18-year-old band mate Bria Hunter so severely that she had blood clots in her legs, deep bone bruising and a cracked femur.
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.....item 1)..... WCTV News ..... www.wctv.tv .... Updated: 10:35 PM Dec 13, 2011
Hazing Victim Linked to Red Dawg Order at FAMU
The group that police say Bria Hunter was participating in was started in Tallahassee. Reports show that the Red Dawg Order originated with the Marching 100.
Posted: 12:10 PM Dec 13, 2011
Reporter: Eyewitness News; CBS; Lanetra Bennett
Email Address: news@wctv.tv; lanetra.bennett@wctv.tv
FAMU Band Members Plan to Fight Hazing Charges 12-13 Noon
Hazing Victim Linked to Red Dawg Order at FAMU
Latest on FAMU Hazing Incident 12-13 5pm
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UPDATE by Lanetra Bennett: Tallahassee, Florida- December 13, 2011 - 6:42 P.M
A group called the Red Dawg Order is believed to have been behind a hazing incident that landed an 18-year-old in the hospital and three FAMU Marching 100 members in jail.
FAMU senior Joel McGuire says he was in the Marching 100 in 2008. He says while he never had any problems, he's not too surprised that three band members were arrested for hazing Monday.
"I didn't experience any type of hazing physically or mentally," McGuire says. "It's all about accountability. Somebody should be held accountable. That's the only way things are going to change."
Tallahassee Police say Sean Hobson, Aaron Golson, and James Harris beat 18-year-old band mate Bria Hunter so severely that she had blood clots in her legs, deep bone bruising and a cracked femur.
Our cameras were rolling when two of the three men were released on bond Tuesday.
Officers say the students are members of Red Dawg Order, which is a subgroup formed by students for band members who are from Georgia.
McGuire says there are several organizations, or "regional frats" within the band.
Red Dawg Order is even a registered incorporated company and has spread nationwide to colleges with large marching bands.
Joel says, "It's not anything that you have to do, they don't try to like put pressure on you, like oh you have to join this organization if your from this, or you have to join this organization if you're from that. Its all a choice."
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Tallahassee, Florida - December 13, 2011 - Noon -
Tallahassee police said the three men arrested were involved in hazing Hunter at an off-campus apartment because she tried to get out of a meeting and couldn't recite information about their clique of Georgia natives, known as the "Red Dawg Order."
Authorities said James Harris, 22, helped plan the hazing at his apartment and, at one point, he stopped the other two men from hitting Hunter further. He has been charged with hazing and his bond was set at ,500.
Harris' attorney, Eric Abrahamsen, insisted there was no evidence his client took part in the hazing and that he would fight the charges.
Sean Hobson, 23, and 19-year-old Aaron Golson, were charged with hazing and battery, and their bail was set at ,000. An attorney for Golson said he would also plead not guilty. Golson was released from jail and ducked into a car driven by his mother. He refused to answer any questions.
Hobson did not yet have an attorney.
Authorities said Hunter was targeted Oct. 31 by other members of the "Red Dawg Order" because she tried to get out of going to a group meeting. She was repeatedly punched on the tops of her thighs by Golson and Hobson, witnesses told police.
The following day, police said, Hunter was beaten with a metal ruler when she could not recite information about the "Red Dawg Order" properly.
Police said Hobson sent Hunter a text message Nov. 5 to say he was sorry.
"I apologize for the hurt I put you through. I apologize for the mental and physical strain you have endured," Hobson said in the message, according to police.
When authorities interviewed him, Hobson acknowledged he was a member of the "Red Dawg Order" but denied harming Hunter or sending her a text message.
Attorney Craig Brown, who is representing Golson, told the judge his client was a good student and should be released without bond because he was cooperating with police. Leon County Judge Ronald Flurry, however, required Golson to post a bond. The judge said if the charges were true, they were "egregious."
After the hearing, Brown said there was a "difference in the stories" of what actually took place.
Ricky Jones, director of the Center on Race and Inequality at the University of Louisville and an expert on hazing, said he had not heard of a case where a female had been beaten by males.
"This doesn't mean it's a first," he said. Since the band and its various groups admit men and women, mixed gender hazing might not be uncommon, Jones said.
Champion's death exposed a hazing tradition that has long haunted the university. Former clarinet player Ivery Luckey was hospitalized after he said he was paddled around 300 times in 1998. Luckey told Tallahassee police that it was mostly girls who hit him in an initiation to become part of "The Clones."
Three years later, band member Marcus Parker suffered kidney damage because of a paddle beating.
After Champion died, the university indefinitely suspended performances by the famed Marching 100. School president James Ammons has vowed to break what he calls a "code of silence" on the hazing rituals.
Last week, the board of trustees reprimanded Ammons over his job performance, including how the university has dealt with hazing. The panel that oversees the state university system has also called for a probe into whether school officials ignored past warnings about hazing.
"The board of trustees and president Ammons hope that through these arrests all involved in perpetuating this culture will really begin to view hazing as a serious matter," said university spokeswoman Sharon Saunders.
The school fired band director Julian White, who contends he tried to report problems with hazing to his superiors. He was reinstated and placed on administrative leave because the Florida Department of Law Enforcement asked the university to halt all disciplinary actions until the investigation is finished. Four students connected to Champion's death were expelled, but then also reinstated.
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Tallahassee, Florida - December 13, 2011 - Noon -
The group that police say Bria Hunter was participating in was started in Tallahassee. Reports show that the Red Dawg Order originated with the Marching 100.
This organization was founded on December 18, 1994 in Tallahassee. A website says the basis for the organization is to establish unity, sisterhood and brotherhood for band members from Georgia at many different colleges.
Red Dawg Order originated at Florida A&M University and spread from there.
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Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 14, 2011 at 09:39 PM
That just mean that they will go to other school and spread the problem
Posted by: Anonymous Location: Tally on Dec 14, 2011 at 04:41 PM
Just close FAMU down and rid our problems.
Posted by: Anonymous Location: USA on Dec 14, 2011 at 04:33 PM
I'm a member of Red Dawg Order Inc. I wanted to say that the action of these three member no way shape or form reflect the organization as a whole. I myself was shacked by the events that took place. RDO is a wonderful organization its an extension of my family.
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