Five football players at Wheaton College, an Evangelical school in Illinois, were charged with a string of felonies on Tuesday in connection with what prosecutors said was a hazing episode in 2016 in which another student was bound, beaten and left half-naked on a baseball field in the middle of the night.
Paul Darrah, a spokesman for the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, said arrest warrants had been issued for the five suspects: James W. Cooksey, Kyler S. Kregel, Benjamin W. Pettway, Noah R. Spielman and Samuel J. TeBos.
LaTonya Taylor, a spokeswoman for the college, said all five had been “deemed inactive for practice or competition” by the coaching staff and administrators, but they remained listed on the team roster online on Tuesday afternoon.