Sam Amico
The University of Georgia teenager who nearly died as the result of a hazing incident has spoken for the first time and promised that “justice will be served.”
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Trent Lehrkamp, 19, needed to spend time on a ventilator in the hospital after being forced to drink excessive amounts of alcohol and eat psychedelic mushrooms during a spring break fraternity party.
Lehrkamp was also spray-painted from head to toe and urinated on before being dropped off and left at an emergency room not far from the Athens, Ga., campus.
The FBI is involved in the investigation of the incident.
“I’m alive and doing well,” Lehrhamp told WSAV.
“Just know it’s going to be a long time for me to get over this, through the trauma, but one day hopefully within the next few months or so, I might be back.”
Trent Lehrkamp
His family said the group believed to be responsible are Lehrhamp’s friends, and it could be up to him if he wants to get the police involved. Again, he did tell WSAV that “justice will be served.”
So it appears he intends to indeed get legal authorities involved, and police are viewing the incident as an assault, per reports.
Glynn County Police Department interim chief O’Neal Jackson said in a press release that those tied to the incident have been identified and that the investigation is ongoing.
Video of the alleged hazing was shared on social media, leading to an outcry from the community, but greatly assisting authorities in their probe of the incident.
