NORTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A local mother wants to end hazing on college campuses after it killed her son.
Max Gruver was just 18-years-old and a freshman at Louisiana State University when he died last September.
A group of family and friends came together to paint in Gruver's memory at a Painting with a Twist location.
With each brush stroke, they created a memory for a young man whose life was cut too short.
"At his funeral, when we were laying him to rest, a beautiful butterfly flew over," his mother, Rae Ann Gruver told Channel 2's Nefertiti Jaquez.
It was the first time she opened up about losing her son and the mission of the painting party, which was a fundraiser for a bigger cause.
“Hazing needs to change. It’s so pointless and so senseless. It is not what makes you a brother to somebody,” she said.
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