An Alabama A&M soccer participant who suffered a head injury during a game last month has died, a coroner’s workplace official stated on Friday.
Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was harm Oct. 26 when the Bulldogs took on Alabama State in an annual gridiron recreation referred to as the Magic Metropolis Basic. The redshirt freshman linebacker played in seven games this season after transferring to Alabama A&M from Grambling.
Burnett was pronounced lifeless on Wednesday, stated AJ Clifton, a deputy coroner with the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner Workplace. Clifton declined to offer data corresponding to Burnett’s trigger and method of demise however stated officers have been planning on releasing a press release on Saturday.
College officers on Wednesday issued a retraction after erroneously declaring in a press release Burnett had died.
The college’s athletic division referred to as the preliminary assertion an “unlucky prevalence,” the college stated concerning the deleted announcement on-line after it was “initially suggested by an instantaneous member of the family of Burnett’s demise on Tuesday night.
Alabama A&M didn’t instantly reply to NBC Information’ request for remark.
Antonio Planas is a breaking information reporter for NBC Information Digital.
