Police investigating hazing after Dartmouth student is found dead in river
Police are looking into whether hazing played a role in the death of a Dartmouth College student whose body was found in a river over the weekend.
Police are looking into whether hazing played a role in the death of a Dartmouth College student whose body was found in a river over the weekend.
Won Jang was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Saturday by docks on the Connecticut River, and he was reported missing Sunday afternoon, police in Hanover, New Hampshire, said.
His body was found at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the water about 65 feet offshore, police said.
Jang, 20, was a member of the class of 2026 and a biomedical engineering major from Middletown, Delaware, who "enthusiastically took part in the Dartmouth community," Dartmouth's dean of the college, Scott Brown, said in a statement offering condolences to the community.
Won Jang at his Middletown High School graduation in Middletown, Del., in 2022.via Appoquinimink School District Two of Jang's friends wrote in an email to The Dartmouth, the college's student newspaper, that he had attended a joint event Saturday night of his fraternity, Beta Alpha Omega, and Alpha Phi, a sorority. The event had involved alcohol, the two friends said.
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