Rutgers suspends Alpha Sigma Phi after injury at off-campus house

A Rutgers University fraternity chapter was suspended this week after a 19-year-old student was found injured and unresponsive early Wednesday morning at an off-campus fraternity house on College Avenue in New Brunswick and transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in critical condition, officials said. The local chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi is on interim suspension as university and national fraternity officials and Middlesex County prosecutors investigate the circumstances.

Rutgers police responded to a disconnected emergency call at about 12:26 a.m., according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. Officers located the unconscious student at the Alpha Sigma Phi residence and emergency personnel took him to the hospital. The prosecutor's office has not publicly disclosed the cause of the injuries. Rutgers University issued a cease-and-desist on chapter activities the same day, placed the organization on organizational disciplinary probation until May 18 and on social probation until November 3, and the city posted a notice declaring the house an unsafe structure.

Middlesex County prosecutors said they are investigating whether hazing or unsafe living...