UT student denies alcohol enema; police say bloodstains, injuries tell different story

Thursday, September 27, 2012

photo The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on the University of Tennessee campus. (Amy Smotherman Burgess/News Sentinel)

KNOXVILLE - A University of Tennessee student denied "butt-chugging" wine, but bloodstains, his injuries and eyewitness accounts told a different story, UT records released today show.

The members of fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha apparently chugged the wine - through one orifice or another - as part of a "blackout party," with one member posting pictures to Twitter, and tried to destroy evidence afterward, according to a UT police report.

Alexander P. Broughton, 20, of Memphis was treated for severe alcohol poisoning Saturday after he arrived at the University of Tennesee Medical Center unconscious with a blood-alcohol level of nearly 0.45, according to police - a potentially deadly concentration more than five times the legal limit.

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