Robert was found dying on a band bus outside an Orlando hotel on November 19. He was only 26 years old.

Former members of Robert's marching band at FAMU have acknowledged that band members had their own system of discipline separate from anything that ousted band director Julian White had in mind.

Robert's death has been ruled a homicide. Orange County officials say that Robert died because of "hemorrhagic shock" - the result of excessive internal bleeding - "due to soft tissue hemorrhage, due to blunt force trauma sustained during a hazing incident."

According to some band members, who spoke on condition of anonymity, drum major Robert died after a rite of passage "crossing Bus C" involving a beating aboard a bus:

Students walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus backward while the bus is full of other band members, and you get beaten until you get to the back."

Four students are expelled from the school, and another 30 are dismissed from the band after Robert's death.

No one has been charged in his death yet, but the Orange County Sheriff's Office suggested that more action will be forthcoming.

The victim's family made clear they did not want to punish the school's famous marching band:

"We don't want to stop the music. We want to stop the hazing. (...) Our goal is that no other family will have to live through this pain."

Controversy has swirled around the Tallahassee university since Champion's death, including three arrests tied to the alleged hazing of a freshman band member a few weeks earlier.

2012 was supposed to be a big year for the university since it was founded in 1887, 125 years ago next year. But recent headlines about FAMU are all about deadly hazing and investigations.