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DailyMail.com can reveal the two fraternity boys being sued by the family of a 19-year-old University of Missouri student who was left blind and unable to walk or talk after being forced to down a family-sized bottle of Tito's in one of the worst hazing incidents to date.
Samuel Gandhi and Alec Wetzler have been named as defendants now by the family of Danny Santulli, a teenager whose family say was forced to drink until his heart stopped last October during pledge month at Phi Gamma Delta.
In an amended complaint filed this week, the family detail how Gandhi and Wetzler targeted their son and then left him passed out on a couch where he stopped breathing momentarily after a night of brutal hazing.
Eventually, he was taken to the hospital but by then, he had suffered severe brain damage.
Now, he is at home in the care of his mother - who quit her banking job to take care of him full time. Doctors say he is not likely to ever walk or talk again.
Wetzler has been charged with supplying alcohol to a minor but no one else has been criminally charged over the incident. It is also unclear if the university has expelled the two latest defendants.
Samuel Gandhi (left) and Alec Wetzler (right) have been named as defendants now by the family of Danny Santulli, a teenager whose family say was forced to drink until his heart stopped last October during pledge month at Phi Gamma Delta
Danny Santulli (shown before the incident) is now blind and cannot walk or talk. His lawyer says his prognosis is 'grim' as a result of the brain damage caused by the hazing night in October 2021
Gandhi is an architecture student who is due to graduate next year. Wetzler is studying a BA in business administration.
The amended lawsuit against them details how they and others - who were previously sued and who settled those lawsuits - force-fed Santulli beer and gave him a family-sized bottle of Tito's to drink.
'This is the worst fraternity hazing case ever in the US in terms of injury. You can't be any worse injured and still be alive
David Bianchi, attorney for the victim
When he passed out and went into cardiac arrest, they finally drove him to the hospital.
Now, he is unlikely to walk, talk or see again. His mother has quit her banking job to care for him full time.
According to the lawsuit, the pair wanted to make the night one 'the pledges wouldn't forget' so filled the frat house with 'cocaine, marijuana and alcohol'.
The new pledges had family-sized bottles of Tito's taped to their hands and were branded 'p*****s' if they stopped drinking, according to documents reviewed by DailyMail.com.
The lawsuit also claims the boys were under caution from the school for a previous hazing incident at the time.
Wetzler has been charged criminally with providing alcohol to a minor but Santulli's lawyer, David Bianchi, tells DailyMail.com the family wants him and others
