A wrongful death lawsuit was filed this morning against Western Kentucky University by the co-administrators of the estate of Katie Autry, a freshman who died after being raped, beaten and set on fire in her dormitory room. In addition to the university itself, the suit names the WKU Student Life Foundation that owns the residence halls, five resident assistants believed to have worked at Hugh Poland Hall the night of the incident and the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. I just feel that we need to do everything we can to make sure this never happens again to anyone, said Virginia White, Katie Autrys aunt. Donnie Autry, Katie Autrys mother, and White are asking for compensation for medical expenses, destruction of earning capacity, pain and suffering, funeral expenses and other damages for the personal injury and wrongful death of the Pellville student, according to the suit, filed in Warren Circuit Court. They are also asking for punitive damages and an award of costs and attorneys fees, according to the suit. The 18-year-old student died three days after a May 4 assault in her Hugh Poland Hall dorm room. Two Scottsville men, Stephen Soules and Lucas Goodrum, were indicted in July on charges of first-degree murder, rape, sodomy and arson, or complicity to commit those crimes. Soules was also indicted on first-degree robbery charges. The two men were not named in the lawsuit. Soules told police he and Goodrum were at a party at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Chestnut Street, as was Katie Autry, the night she was attacked. The three went to her dorm room in Hugh Poland Hall, where he said Goodrum beat and raped her, smothered her with a pillow, then sprayed hairspray on her breasts and pubic area, according to the affidavit. Goodrum also covered a sprinkler head in her room with a towel before the girls body was set on fire, the affidavit states. Autry received third- and fourth-degree burns on her torso and pubic area, according to a report from the Tennessee State Medical Examiners office, which performed an autopsy after she died from her injuries May 7 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. We believe that adequate security would have prevented the attack on Katie, said Ben Crocker, the familys attorney. (She was) in her own bed, in her own room. She should have been safe there. And she wasnt. Administrators at Western had been warned about security problems in the dorm, specifically that some resident assistants were not following proper security procedures, Crocker said. They were letting non-students into the dorm without escorts and without leaving identification cards at the front desk. Crocker believes Soules and Goodrum werent escorted to Katie Autrys room and they didnt sign in. In this case, it was a fatal mistake, he said. Pi Kappa Alpha is being sued because they held an invitation-only party that night, but allowed people including some who were underage to come without an invitation, Crocker said. We know that there was alcohol being used there, he said. A member of the fraternity took Katie Autry back to her room and Soules to the same general area, he added. Pike President Justin Perkins said he hasnt seen the lawsuit and will not comment until he does. Deborah Wilkins, general counsel for Western Kentucky University, did not return calls from the Daily News this morning.