BERKELEY — The parents of a UC Berkeley student who died last month after a pool party filed a lawsuit this week against the fraternity that hosted the function, court records show.

The parents claim UC Berkeley’s Alpha Delta Phi fraternity cut corners and ignored numerous safety measures during the Nov. 14 party that ended with fatal injuries to their 19-year-old son, George Mauricio Salinas, according to the lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court.

Salinas, an undeclared junior undergraduate student at the university, was found unresponsive at around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 after nearly drowning at the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house, which is on the 2400 block of Prospect St. in Berkeley. He was taken to a hospital, where he died three days later.

A cause of death has yet to be

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