BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama A&M soccer participant who suffered a head harm throughout a sport in October has died.
Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was enjoying his first season as a linebacker with Alabama A&M when he sustained the harm through the annual Magic Metropolis Basic towards in-state rival Alabama State on Oct. 26, the Jefferson County coroner stated in a press release Friday. The coroner listed his official time of loss of life as Wednesday night.
The Alabama A&M athletic division introduced Burnett’s loss of life Wednesday morning after which despatched out a retraction later that day. The second assertion stated the preliminary information of Burnett’s loss of life got here “from an instantaneous member of the family on Tuesday night.”
The redshirt freshman from Lakewood, California, joined Alabama A&M over the summer time after beginning his school profession at Grambling State, based on the athletics division.
A spokesperson for the division couldn’t be reached by telephone Friday morning.
