His lifeless body was defaced with offensive remarks from head to toe. That's what an autopsy released Tuesday Jan. 9 2007 shows happened to Phanta "Jack" Phoumarrath, the University of Texas (Austin) fraternity member who died of alcohol poisoning in 2005.
It also shows his blood alcohol content was five times the legal limit.
Some members of Lambda Phi Epsilon have been indicted in his death.
The family's attorney says the suspects seem to have spent a considerable amount of time drawing on Jack, when they could have been helping him instead.
"They wrote a variety of things, most of which would be considered juvenile. Some of which were lewd. It was disappointing and certainly discouraging to the family that people who hold themselves out as fraternity brothers would do something like this," Phoummarath family attorney Randy Sorrels said.
UT suspended Lambda Phi Epsilon as a registered student organization until 2011, after determining that hazing had occurred. Source.
Many of the epithets scrawled on Jack's body were homophobic. Source.
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