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Disturbing story, my God. She was used and discarded like a piece of trash. Hopefully, changes come from this.
UPDATE: Reggie's bar has liquor license suspended after death of Madison Brooks >

They'll be back. It's not their first rodeo. They will pay some fines and follow so newly imposed rules but nothing fundamentally will change. >

Normally I'd agree with you (I'm familiar with Reggie's and its history) but this is high profile enough that I don't know if they can recover. >

Their owners need to be dragged into court as well. >

I would be happy with seeing them lose their liquor license here permanently and forcing them to go bankrupt. >

What sane girl will want to go into that rape/murder den now? >

Sadly it’s not the first incident at Reggie’s and still maintains its popularity >

Her poor parents.  I don’t know if I could live knowing my child died in such a way, or anyway actually, but this is horrific. >

Totally agree. They are victims here too. If it were my daughter, my current life would effectively be over. The only thing that would keep me from offing myself is my other kid. >

I'd have to take the rapists with me. >

Why don't we hear about more vengeance from broken parents? I know how I'd spend my free time
edit in case I sound like some r/iamverybadass dbag:
I have no idea what it must feel like to go through what these parents go through. I'm just saying, I'm shocked you don't hear about them losing their shit and getting revenge. I just picture them having all the time in the world and devolving and spiraling. Like where would you go from there? >

I have to imagine because the bloodlust people have in hypotheticals is pretty hard to act on when you have so many other things to concern yourself with after losing a child. >

Well that and if they have another child….  I wouldn’t give a fuck though.  Sometimes there truly is a time to kill. >

Poor kid. What a terrible way to go. Rip. >

I can’t imagine how the parents feel, that’s a helluva heartbreaking phone call to receive >

Then to learn that her last moments alive were a brutal gang rape. 
I don’t know how I could possibly go on after that. 
It’s just too much. >

I know it is terrible to say but I hope with her BAC being that high she wasn’t aware of what was really going on.  I honestly hope she was not conscious for those last terrible hours of her life.  Poor girl. 
How the hell were people as young as 17 at a bar drinking.  How could her friends leave her, how could other people at the bar fail to see how drunk she was and let her leave with four random guys.  So many people let her down. >

How could the rapists parents raise boys who thought that was ok.   
It’s not like she got attacked by wolves when she was out late in the woods—   Her rapists were people just like the people at the bar.  Which parents raised their sons to be  monsters? >

Man raising a boy. This is in the forefront of everything I do parenting. >

As a man raising 2 girls, thank you. >

I don't know where to put this comment, I guess. But here I go. I went to Homecoming with a dude my Sophomore year of HS. I was new to the school as usual (as an Army brat), and didn't know hardly anyone when homecoming rolled around. He was a kid in my Spanish class. Quiet....but just seemed shy to me at first. 
It was until the "date" happened that I got the creepy vibes from him. The way he looked at me was just....off. I don't even remember what he said, but he made comments that made me very uncomfortable. I was so relieved when the night was over. I avoided him after that. 
This kid was Nicholas Holbert. He went on to murder a young female soldier in Fayetteville NC a few years later.
Edit to add.... I would also go on to become friends with Chris Watts for the next two years at that school. Ugh. >

Jesus that’s a horrible story >

Not a lawyer but I don't know why these kids aren't getting hit with some kind of homicide or manslaughter charge also. Dropping someone in the middle of the road who is borderline comatose sounds like negligent homicide to me. The whole story is so horrific. >

I know they've said they don't plan to charge the rapists with any other crimes related to her death, but there's a chance they're waiting for one of them to give testimony that implicates the position/condition she was left in. >

Yeah, I’m the furthest thing from an expert of the law, and certainly not in Louisiana’s specifically, but I feel I’ve definitely seen people get felony murder charges for a lot less (in terms of directly causing one’s death). 
Assaulting a girl and then dumping her on the road that drunk, don’t think you could try any harder to indirectly kill someone. >

They may even try to pin kidnapping on them if she was too drunk to consent to anything. And I have to imagine dropping somebody off somewhere is part of that act. >

Did they catch the driver who hit her or was it a hit and run? >

That's what I'm unclear about too. It seems like you need a whole another article to figure out how she died and what's going on with that part? >

So the only person in this story who willingly did a single decent thing is the poor soul who has to live with actually killing her.
What a wonderful world we live in. >

Wow. Hard to believe that they’re actually the best person in this whole scenario. >

I wouldn't go that far. Sometimes some poor drunk asshole wanders into traffic and gets hit because they're too wasted to know better. That's not the driver's fault and it happens more often than you'd think.
We usually assume the driver is at fault when they hit a pedestrian, but legally speaking they're not at fault if they had no way to predict the pedestrian or no time to stop. >

I had a conversation with a cement pumping truck driver. On 2 occasions he has had people commit suicide by jumping in front of his truck. He said they see it and know it’s heavy and can’t slow down and will 100% kill them. I think after two I’d be looking for a new job. >

My cousin drove a train.  Same thing.  He had 3-4 people jump in front of him over the years.  He also had a wide array of junk thrown off bridges hitting his train.  His locomotive had a cage welded over the windshield to deflect hurled objects. >

Man that is messed up. I used to have nightmares about shit like that. 
Then I saw a train that was crushed by a collapsed overpass and the same train tip over into another lane not long after. Train collisions are rare so that particular spot must have high insurance rates 
I grew up with someone who's job is to clean trainwrecks up. But they stay sitting "crashed" for so long after while the NTSB investigates.  I wonder if they must have to do it in waves to get any human remains up first. He said he's had to pick up a foot still in its sneaker >

I know a spot in the Appalachian mountains where a train derailed and fell down into the valley.  You can see the cars from the interstate when the trees lose their leaves. >

That Reggie’s place needs to be immediately shut down, too.  Letting anyone get to a 0.319 BAC, let alone a 19 year old… >

It's known as the freshman bar where they can go to get fucked up. As long as you are 18 you can get in. It is the shittiest bar in Tigerland and always has been. It was actually shut down a few years ago because of an underage drinking sting.
Tigerland is just an awful place in general. Frequent murders and shootings. Kidnappings are not uncommon and LSU students just can't stay away from it. Good things don't happen in Tigerland >

It really is a blight on the community and I used to go there all the time. Dumb and young. I have seen some of the worst fights I have ever seen in my life at Reggie’s and I grew up in New Orleans going out. I watched a dude get straight stabbed in the parking lot as a freshman. >

I knew a guy who tried to calm a fight there. He ended having literally all of his teeth kicked out and his skull and jaw fractured. Had to have loads of reconstructive surgery. >

Yeah, man unfortunately it’s pretty common place. I think many ppl would be surprised if they walked by there at 12:30/1am. Most parents would be Fucking appalled lol. It’s dystopian and disturbing now that I have grown up and looked back. >

I'm just glad I was too nerdy to even consider it an option. I brewed my own until I was 21 and then spent my nights at the cove until I skipped town.
If the choice is between chugging natty in rapemurder alley or quietly sipping a stout with my fellow pirates, well... The choice always seemed obvious. >

This is the problem with zero tolerance drinking laws and having the highest drinking age in the world.
Only a fool thinks that makes the kids go "oh ok I guess I won't drink til I'm 21 now."  
What it actually does it drive it underground and to the seediest parts of town where you are more likely to encounter serious problems if you drink too much. >

Except this place ain't really underground, minutes away from campus and well known for serving minors...... It's almost as if the government agency in charge of regulating the liquor license is failing. >

Louisiana had to be dragged kicking and screaming into raising their drinking age to 21. They were denied Federal highway funds for years. Makes sense that their enforcement would be lax >

I’m from a town with a notorious party school. There are so many bars down town, like SO many. I was a bartender from ~2004-2010. We had many crazy nights, especially after football games. What we didn’t have was tons of underage drinking in those bars. It is my best guess that prevention was due to local business codes and a very active police force. Police would often come in plainclothes with an underage guest and try to coerce you into serving the person with the fake ID or no ID. It happened to me more than once and the cop was always really pushy like “C’mon, just serve my ‘GF’ a drink, I swear she’s over 21”, shit like that. We would always complain that this tactic felt a little too much like entrapment. Another thing that kept us from serving underage was the fact that you could go to jail for serving someone alcohol who later went on to get a DUI, in a wreck, cause a crash, etc. I was always wary of over-serving or accepting a fake ID because the repercussions would be massive. >

The drinking culture at big state schools is out of control.  It’s a shit show every weekend.  Frats are the worst. >

The school I’m talking about is in the SEC. The drinking culture is part of the reason I moved away in 2011. >

alabama? i’m from tuscalooosa and you are exactly on the mark, but it’s sad it applies to pretty much every southern school. >

"This was not a crime."
My brother in Christ, it is a crime to rape a woman while she is unconscious in the back seat of a car. >

How the fuck did a real life lawyer say this >

He said it about his client...who sat in the front seat while she was being raped in the back seat, not the guy who did the rape itself.
Apparently saying he was uncomfortable with the rape absolves him /s >

How do you sit in the front of a car while a rape is happening in the back of the same car, and then claim your innocent >

Step 1: be a coward >

Step 2: make deplorable friends >

What's weird is the front seat dudes were upper 20s and the back seat rapists were teens.
How are you 28 with an 18 year old friend? Smash bros tournament? >

When you can’t make friends your own age, only the teenage rapists will hang out. >

Was a dude like this in my hood who just kept hanging out with year after year of high school kids in his 20s
Was known as Peter Pan >

“Alright alright alright…that’s what I love about high school…I keep gettin older and they stay the same age”
He played the part of a genuine creep soo damn well >

What a sad story. Seems the bar has a troubled history with underage drinking and more,  which happens in college towns. But 17?  I'd imagine this incident finally closes their doors.

Madison Brooks, a 19-year-old sophomore at LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication from Madisonville, had been drinking at Reggie’s, a Tigerland bar, where she met the 17-year-old, and left with him and the three other suspects, deputies said. >

I believe Reggie's has been operating since before I started LSU in the mid 2000s. As far back as when I was there, that entire area (there's like 6 bars over there, some apartments and a bomb burger joint that used to sell fake bake) has been rough.
Living in some apartments in that area, I saw a dude get stabbed and another shot while I was on my porch. It's always been rough. 
I guess all that is to say, that if all the shenanigans that have occurred over the past 2 decades hasn't been enough to close down Reggie's, I unfortunately don't believe this will. Cops there would much rather park at the red light at Nicholson and tigerland and give kids an inspection sticker ticket in the morning (after picking up their vehicles) than root out anything that is happening in that area. >


Cops there would much rather park at the red light at Nicholson and tigerland and give kids an inspection sticker ticket in the morning

Classic Louisiana cops. Surprised they didn’t try to harass the kids to find other reasons either. >

.31 BAC is straight up coma level drunk, like surgical sedation type drunk. These people raped a person who had the potential to go into a coma and die. Absolutely unforgivable >


Absolutely unforgivable

Agreed.
Also knowing that she was drunk they abandoned her on the side of a road, leading to her likely stepping in front of traffic  - too drunk to be fully aware of her surroundings.
In my view they should also be charged w/involuntary manslaughter (I think it is) as their actions led to her death. >

.319 and the lawyer said she was able to consent? I disagree >

What's the drinking age there? They serve teenagers?? >

Dives and older college campuses will serve you regardless