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Band members' statements to investigators that a Florida A & M University drum major willingly got on a bus where he endured a beating with drumsticks, mallets and fists helps explain why the nearly dozen defendants charged in his death face felony hazing counts and not more severe charges such as manslaughter and second-degree murder, legal experts say.

Prosecutors Wednesday released hundreds of pages of evidence in the hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion.

Palm Beach County members of FAMU band tell of hazing horrors that led to student's death

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CHARLOTTE – Florida A&M’s president said Friday that the hazing death of a marching band member is tragic, but promised its alumni association Carolina that the celebrated band would return.

Victim was punched on legs with fists, smacked with metal ruler TALLAHASSEE — Two Florida A&M University band members, including one charged in the felony hazing death of drum major Robert Champion in Orlando, admitted Thursday to hazing a first-year female clarinet player who was treated at a hospital after being beaten last year.

The Associated Press -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Florida A&M University's president said Friday that the hazing death of a marching band member is tragic, but promised its alumni association in Carolina that the celebrated band would return.

CLINTON — A former member of what the prosecutor called a “death metal” band pleaded guilty this afternoon to repeatedly stabbing the band’s roadie in the chest.

Florida A&M University’s famed marching band will remain suspended through the 2012-13 academic year as the school continues to wrestle with the aftermath of the hazing death of a drum major last fall.

Florida A&M University has suspended its celebrated marching band indefinitely as it grapples with the beating death of a drum major and an ongoing probe into the band’s culture of violent hazing.