Prosecutor: At least 13 to be charged in FAMU band hazing case A Florida prosecutor says 13 people will be charged in the death of Florida A&M university drum major Robert Champion, who died after being beaten during a hazing ritual in November. The prosecutor announced the charges at a news conference Wednesday. The charges come more than five months after Champion, 26, died aboard a chartered bus parked outside an Orlando hotel. Champion was found unresponsive aboard the bus after the annual Florida Classic football game in Orlando. "No one would have expected that his college experience would have included being pummeled to death," Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar said during the news conference. I have come to believe that hazing is a term for bullying, bullying with a tradition. Lamar says 11 of the 13 people charged will face felony charges. The others will face misdemeanor charges. The medical examiner ruled Champion's death a homicide in the course of hazing by the university's celebrated Marching 100 band. Check back for details on this breaking news story.