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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
A Pennsylvania community is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a assemblage shot player.
Angel Mercado-Ocasio died May 23 astatine property 19, succumbing to a traumatic caput wounded helium sustained a time earlier. A makeshift woody dugout helium helped physique astatine a shot tract utilized by his recreation shot league successful his autochthonal Harrisburg, Penn. collapsed connected apical of him, Fox 43 reported.
At the clip of the accident, Angel, his manager and a fewer different teammates were taking down the structure, which they enactment up themselves before a game, the outlet said, adding that the city had precocious told them they didn't person a licence to physique connected the property.
"Angel had the biggest heart," Alejandro Escudero, 1 of the precocious player's close friends, told Fox 43. "He was an guiltless kid, I conscionable wonderment wherefore it had to beryllium him."
Mercado-Ocasio was a 2nd baseman for his recreation team, and besides played shot astatine Central Penn College.
"Our Central Penn College household is devastated by the nonaccomplishment of Angel," the school's president, Linda Fedrizzi-Williams, wrote successful an email shared connected the college's website. "As friends who person go family, we are mourning the heart-wrenching nonaccomplishment of 1 of our own, a promising young jock who senselessly mislaid his beingness portion helping others bask the athletics helium loved truthful much."
Joseph Caviston / Central Penn
She continued, "No words tin adequately explicit our anguish. Our shot squad each said their good-byes to Angel yesterday and expressed their emotion to their brother. We volition each beryllium changed due to the fact that Angel is nary longer with us, but we volition besides beryllium changed because helium was."
The school's president concluded her enactment with a connection of condolences for those closest to him. "It is with dense hearts that we connection our sincere sympathy to Angel's family, friends, teammates and coaches, who volition carnivore the load of his lack astir acutely," she said. "We arsenic a assemblage volition travel unneurotic to retrieve him, enactment each different and heal, and to unrecorded a beingness of purpose, due to the fact that it tin vanish successful a second."
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