Police ticket 12 Chi Psi fraternity members

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Police ticket 12 Chi Psi fraternity members
Citations follow Sept. drinking death of Gordie Bailey
By Christine Reid, Camera Staff Writer
February 5, 2005

Nearly five months after a University of Colorado freshman died of alcohol poisoning in the Chi Psi house, 12 members of the fraternity have been ticketed in connection with providing alcohol to a minor.

Late Friday afternoon, attorneys for the 12 received the misdemeanor tickets issued by Boulder police. The young men are ordered to appear in Boulder County Court Feb. 16 on the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and one year in the Boulder County Jail.

They are Austin Brooks, 19; Frank Darden, 19; Charles Denison, 20; Matthew Goode, 20; John Guido, 20; Brett Herter, 19; Christopher Jones, 21; William Percy, 19; Daniel Rosenberg, 21; Thomas Tankersley, 20; Patrick Wall, 21; and Alan Williams, 19.

Lynn Gordon "Gordie" Bailey Jr., 18, was found dead Sept. 17, the morning after he and 26 other pledges were taken to the mountains near Gold Hill, given bottles of whiskey and wine and told that "no one was leaving until the whiskey was gone," according to a police affidavit.

Prosecutor John Pickering said the reason for the delay in issuing the tickets was because it was a "joint, ongoing" investigation between his office and Boulder police. Pickering would not comment on whether any more tickets, such as citations for hazing, were expected.

"The information we gathered concerning the conduct is more appropriately chargedas providing alcohol to a minor," Pickering said.

CU is conducting its own investigation into Bailey's death, and no student sanctions had been handed down as of Friday, CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said. She said officials in the university's Office of Judicial Affairs were waiting for police to finish their investigation to conclude theirs, and now that tickets have been issued they can proceed.

"Providing alcohol to a minor did not kill Gordon Bailey," his stepfather, Michael Lanahan, said from his Dallas home Friday night. "I have to learn more about where (police and prosecutors) are going or what they're doing."

He said the town of Boulder faces a large challenge because bars are serving minors "every night."

"Is someone going to have to die to ticket someone for providing alcohol to a minor?" Lanahan asked.

None of the students ticketed has a criminal history in Colorado, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.




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