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Alabama A&M University announced Nov. 27 that pupil jock Medrick Burnett Jr. died aft suffering captious injuries successful an October shot game. But, according to his family, he’s inactive alive.
By Bentley Maddox Nov 28, 2024 1:44 AMTags
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College football subordinate Medrick Burnett Jr. is inactive alive, contempt his assemblage releasing a connection stating helium had died.
The Alabama A&M pupil jock is connected beingness enactment pursuing injuries helium sustained successful an October shot crippled against Alabama State University, his household told NBC affiliate WAFF.
However, Alabama A&M athletics manager Dr. Paul A. Bryant said successful a now-deleted Nov. 27 connection that Burnett had died.
"Today, our Bulldog household is heartbroken by the nonaccomplishment of Medrick Burnett Jr.," the connection shared to the university’s website read, according to WAFF. "Medrick was much than an exceptional athlete; helium was a singular young antheral whose affirmative energy, enactment and compassion near an indelible people connected everyone who knew him.”
Emphasizing the school’s “deepest condolences,” Bryant continued, "While words cannot adequately explicit our grief, we are humbled by the spot of his family, who stood by his broadside passim this unimaginable ordeal.”
Hours aft the mendacious report, the assemblage worked to close their mistake.
“We explicit our regret for disseminating mendacious information,” an Alabama A&M spokesperson shared successful a connection to AL.com. “We clasp implicit joyousness successful knowing Medrick remains successful unchangeable condition.”
The assemblage aboriginal explained that "an contiguous household member" told them Nov. 26 that Burnett had died.
"Our unit acted accordingly to the wishes of the household subordinate to pass the A&M assemblage and beyond of this unfortunate occurrence," the assemblage said successful the 2nd Nov. 27 statement, per ESPN. "Upon proceeding from a typical from UAB Hospital this afternoon, we learned that helium remains alive.”
Though Burnett is alive, helium remains successful the infirmary warring done complications from a head-on collision helium suffered during the Magic City Classic connected Oct. 26, according to WAFF.
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“He had respective encephalon bleeds and swelling of the brain,” Burnett’s sister Dominece James wrote connected a GoFundMe fundraiser for her younger brother. “He had to person a conduit to drain to relieve the pressure, and aft 2 days of terrible pressure, we had to opt for a craniotomy, which was the past edifice to assistance effort to prevention his life.”
Amid the mendacious study of his passing, Burnett’s parent Denise Burnett told WAFF, “When the clip comes, we volition contented a connection astir what we person been through.”
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