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.
"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.
With each brush stroke, they created a memory for a young man whose life was cut too short.
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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