The Charleston Daily Mail in South Carolina is reporting that a Clemson University freshman who died Sunday died of alcohol poisoning.

The body of 18 year old Benjamin Garrison Sprague was found "in the basement of an off-campus fraternity house," according to the Daily Mail. According to the paper, Sprague was already intoxicated when he showed up at a Sigma Nu fraternity party at 7 p.m. Saturday night. "Sprague had a blood-alcohol level of at least .38 when he died - almost five times the legal limit of 0.08," the Daily Mail reported.

Sikes Hall on the Clemson Campus

The fraternity has been placed on a suspension while both the university and the national Sigma Nu organization investigate.

Sprague was a graduate of Greenville High School, according to the Sanguine et Purpure blog. He was the grandson of South Carolina lawmaker T. Ed Garrison, a Democrat who served in both the state house and senate from 1959-1987.

Sprague was an engineering major. He had an older brother also attending Clemson.

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