Alabama A&M Football Gamer Dead at 20 From Head Injury

A college football star has actually fulfilled an awful fate.

Weeks after sustaining a head injury throughout a football video game, Alabama A&M Bulldogs gamer Medrick Burnett Jr. was noticable dead Nov. 27, Jefferson County deputy coroner AJ Clifton validated to NBC News Nov. 29. Clifton did not elaborate on the linebacker’s cause of death, according to the outlet.

The 20-year-old professional athlete sustained a head injury Oct. 26 throughout a football video game versus Alabama State University in the Magic City Classic, NBC News reported.

” He had a number of brain bleeds and swelling of the brain,” Burnett’s sibling Dominece James discussed on a GoFundMe page produced to support his healing. “He needed to have a tube to drain pipes to ease the pressure, and after 2 days of serious pressure, we needed to select a craniotomy, which was the last option to assist attempt to conserve his life.”

2 days before Burnett’s death was validated, the university wrongly launched a declaration on their site stating he had actually passed away, pointing out an “instant member of the family” who had actually notified the professors of his death.