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STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania college fraternity president says he and four others charged in a pledge's death during a hazing ritual in the Poconos tried to "cover it all up" when they met weeks later.
Daniel Li is cooperating against four Baruch College fraternity brothers charged with third-degree murder in the beating death of 18-year-old Chun Michael Deng.
Li testified Monday at a preliminary hearing when a judge ordered all five men held for trial.
Li says the Pi Delta Psi brothers gathered in New York afterward to decide what to tell police and their attorneys.
Defense lawyer Steven Brill, who represents co-defendant Sheldon Wong, says no one initially thought the injuries to Deng were life-threatening. Brill calls the 2013 death accidental.
Other defendants are Charles Lai, Kenny Kwan and Raymond Lam.
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This story has been corrected to show that Daniel Li a former fraternity president, not current president.
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