Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A fraternity at Rutgers University in New Jersey is under investigation and has been permanently shut down after a student was critically injured in an alleged hazing incident.
The university issued a cease-and-desist on the Alpha Sigma Phi chapter, hours after the 19-year-old was found unresponsive last week in the basement of the fraternity's off-campus house.
Rutgers officials said the fraternity admitted the student was shocked with electricity and then came into contact with water. Authorities discovered the injured student after responding to a disconnected 911 call.
"Based on our investigation, hazing did occur and as a result, the fraternity made the decision to close the chapter," Gordy Heminger, a spokesperson for Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, Inc., said in a statement.
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