evelyn piazza grappling with the senseless alcohol-related death of her son tim after he was allegedly left dying for hours at a pledge event in a penn state university fraternity house. >> the nurse brought me forward and told me to kiss him good-bye. it was hard. and that's what when you close your eyes. >> it looked like he got hit by a car. he was in bad shape. he was on full life support. his eyes were half open. he wasn't there. >> reporter: piazza's death has once again raised serious questions across the country about the dangers of hazing in the greek system. tim's older brother mike is also a student at penn state. >> were you specifically worried about the hazing and drinking? >> i knew that there's kind of a culture of partying with penn state greek life, but i didn't expect anything like what happened. i had no expectation for any of that. >> reporter: friends and family remember tim as a caring and fun-loving 19-year-old. can you tell me about the wrist bands you're wearing? >> our family had wrist bands made that say live like tim and never stop laughing. >> this is tim'

<evelyn piazza/ mother of tim piazza> "they said the spleen was shattered." "it was chilling as a parent, it was chilling. he was, in my mind it was murder. they let him suffer for 12 hours. they let him die a very slow death. it's not any way anybody should ever be treated. there were people in that house that knew he was dying and when they knew that death was imminent, the next morning, they waited 42 minutes to call for help while they told people to clean up, cover up the evidence, get rid of it. this wasn't boys being boys. this was criminal activity."a grand jury found he was put through a hazing ritual at his fraternity house called the gauntlet, forced to drink dangerous amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time. prosecutors say surveillance video shows him unable to stand and repeatedly falling. first, down 15 feet of stairs, then hitting his head on a stone floor, on an iron railing and a door before falling down the stairs again. authorities say fraternity members waited 12 hours before calling 9-11, and then

<evelyn piazza/ mother of tim piazza> "they said the spleen was shattered." "it was chilling as a parent, it was chilling. he was, in my mind it was murder. they let him suffer for 12 hours. they let him die a very slow death. it's not any way anybody should ever be treated. there were people in that house that knew he was dying and when they knew that death was imminent, the next morning, they waited 42 minutes to call for help while they told people to clean up, cover up the evidence, get rid of it. this wasn't boys being boys. this was criminal activity."a grand jury found he was put through a hazing ritual at his fraternity house called the gauntlet, forced to drink dangerous amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time. prosecutors say surveillance video shows him unable to stand and repeatedly falling. first, down 15 feet of stairs, then hitting his head on a stone floor, on an iron railing and a door before falling down the stairs again. authorities say fraternity members waited 12 hours before calling 9-11, and then t

joined by tim's parents evelyn and jim piazza and older brother mike.the start this story has hit so many of us so hard because it seems so senseless. we are just sorry, all of our condolences and prayers and i see you're wearing that wristband, tim's friends had made, live like tim. never stop laughing. is that how you remember him? >> absolutely, yeah. it's who he was. always laughing, always smiling, just the nicest guy. >> what do you want people to know about your son? >> oh, he was great. he was an amazing guy. he was so funny, smart, the first one to be there for somebody, he was everybody's friend. best friend. >> and, jim, i know it's hard to come out on a day like this but talk about the action you're taking right now. your attorneys talked about filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the fraternity, the university, the members. who bears the most responsibility. >> i think the individuals involved clearly bear the most responsibility. if you read the time line of what happened, they set out to feed these guys lethal amounts of alcohol from t

now our emotional conversation with timothy piazza's parents jim and evelyn and his brother mike whowill be a senior at penn state next year. we began by talking about the disturbing timeline of the fateful night. >> it was horrific this wasn't boys being boys, matt. this was men who intended to force feed alcohol into other young men and what happened throughout the night was just careless disregard for human life. they basically treated our son as road kill and a rag doll. >> nobody should consume that much alcohol. that's -- that's torture. >> there are videotapes. that house has an internal video system that was pretty extensive. how much of the video have you seen? >> we haven't seen the video yet, matt and i don't really want to see it. but i will tell you this, if the board trustees and the president sit down to watch the video with me, i'll watch it. >> you don't want to see it alone as a parent. >> no. >> but you would watch it with someone who could make decisions to make a different. >> absolutely, i don't want see it as a parent because i feel like it will be incredibly p