((HT: WCTV-TV))
Defense attorney Bill Sharpe says he got an email from the Florida state attorney's office telling him that the charges against his client, Rikki Wills, would be upgraded to manslaughter.
Prosecutors are charging ten Florida A&M band members and two other individuals in the 2011 hazing death of drum major Robert Champion.
Champion died in Orlando in November of 2011 at the FAMU-Bethune Cookman game after he collapsed on a band bus. Prosecutors maintain Champion was beaten so severely that he was substantially bruised and had internal bleeding.
Prosecutors maintain it was a hazing incident that ended up killing Champion.
Here's a story that Outside The Lines ran a year ago uncovering the culture of hazing at FAMU
((HT: ESPN))
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