NEW ORLEANS ( WVUE /Gray News) - The parents of Caleb Wilson, a Southern University student who died in February after an alleged hazing, filed a civil lawsuit on Friday.

According to the lawsuit, the family is seeking wrongful death and survival damages from the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, more than a dozen of its members, and the university system.

The “Petition for Wrongful Death and Survival Damages” was filed by Urania Brown Wilson and Corey Wilson, Sr., in the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The lawsuit names Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and its local Beta Sigma and Lambda Alpha chapters, as well as the State of Louisiana, through the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and A&M College, as defendants.

The filing comes seven months after 20-year

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