{"id":465825,"date":"2026-09-16T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465825\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:50:08","slug":"18-year-old-cal-state-fullerton-student-dies-after-frat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465825\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old Cal State Fullerton student dies after frat party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An 18-year-old Cal State Fullerton student died Sunday after an off-campus frat party, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Joseph Blas was pronounced dead shortly after someone dropped him off at Providence St. Jude Medical Center around midnight, the Fullerton Police Department said. Blas had been at a function at a fraternity just north of campus that is unaffiliated with the university. <\/p>\n<p>Alcohol appeared to be a factor, police said, though the precise cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Blas graduated from Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights earlier this year and was accepted to attend 17 other universities before he chose Cal State Fullerton, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LosAltosHS\/photos\/congrats-to-lahs-senior-anthony-blas-who-will-be-attending-csu-fullerton-in-the-\/1580484497411029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a post<\/a> on the high school\u2019s Facebook page. <\/p>\n<p>Cal State Fullerton said in a statement that it was aware of the death and is providing students with psychological services. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with the student\u2019s family and the campus community during this incredibly difficult time,\u201d university spokesperson Amy Blumenthal said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Cal State Fullerton student died Sunday after an off-campus frat party, police said. Anthony Joseph Blas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[183425,7,9,8,2791,339,89970,7770,183423,101483,94876,183424,31373,236,183426,183427,3025,1816],"class_list":["post-465825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-blas","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-campus","tag-death","tag-facebook-page","tag-factor","tag-frat-party","tag-fraternity","tag-hacienda-heights","tag-los-altos-high-school","tag-manner","tag-police","tag-precise-cause","tag-psychological-service","tag-statement","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}