At one point Carrington dropped the five-gallon bottle and spilled water on one of the three actives. He was forced to do more push-ups as punishment. Carrington collapsed around 3:40AM and went into a seizure that lasted nearly one minute. Chi Tau members changed Carrington out of his wet clothing and laid him on the couch after wrapping him in a sleeping bag. Quintana noticed that Carrington had stopped breathing around 5AM. He performed CPR on Carrington until paramedics arrived and transported him to Enloe Medical Center, where he died soon after arrival that early morning on Wednesday, February 2, 2005. The official cause of death was cardiac dysrhythmia and cerebral edema, or brain-swelling, due to water intoxication. Hypothermia also contributed to the death. Matt Carrington died a senseless, painful death, leaving his family shattered. Several other lives were ruined: young men who came from "good backgrounds" and who explained "they never meant things to go that far." These perpetrators spent hard time in jail. In response to this tragedy, California has passed sweeping legislation making it easier to hold perpetrators of hazing accountable, in Matt's Law. At the close of the trial, media from all over the United States came to the Butte County courtroom to hear the sentencing, including reporters and camera crews from "Dateline NBC" and "Inside Edition". News reports focused on the death, giving little attention to the nuanced distinction that this was a local, rogue chapter and not in any way part of a national fraternity. Hence, to the casual reader, this incident was a stain against the idea of "fraternities," generally. The perpetrators were sentenced to jail terms of up to one year. James DeVilla Abrille, 22, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor hazing, Jerry Ming Lim, 25, and John Paul Fickes, 20, both pleaded guilty to being accessories to involuntary manslaughter, and Gabriel John Maestretti, 22, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Previously adjudicated as a misdemeanor, these represent the first "felony charges" brought for hazing in the United States. The University placed all Greek recruitment on suspension while a committee sorted out how to respond. The rogue local chapter was shut down, the building was sold. News reports pictured it, boarded and taped off, as "a grim reminder" of what had transpired there. At his sentencing, Maestretti said, ""I did what I did out of a misguided sense of building brotherhood, and instead I lost a brother.