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Alabama high school football player dies of brain injury sustained during game

Alabama high school football player dies of brain injury sustained during game

Quarterback Caden Tellier, 16, was injured during a tackle while playing for the John T. Morgan Academy in Selma, Alabama, on Friday.

A tall school football star has passed on after enduring a brain damage amid a diversion on Friday night, his school and family have confirmed.

Quarterback Caden Tellier, 16, was harmed amid a handle in the third quarter, playing for the John T. Morgan Foundation, a private school in Selma, Alabama, versus Southern Academy.

His mother, Arsella Slagel Tellier, said in a Facebook post on Saturday: "Everybody who knows Caden has known thoughtfulness, liberality and adore, and genuine to his nature, he is giving of himself one more time."

"Lives have been touched by the way he lived and presently lives will be spared through his passing," she said.

The particular points of interest of what happened in the minute some time recently and amid the handle are vague. A GoFundMe page to cover burial service costs, which has as of now raised $75,000 of its $100,000 target, said Tellier passed on from a “traumatic brain injury.” The GoFundMe page too notices that Tellier was an organ donor.

Morgan Institute superintendent Dr. Bryan Oliver said in a explanation to NBC associate WSFA of Montgomery that "there are no words to depict how we feel as a school community and family." Morgan Institute has approximately 350 students.

"It is with a overwhelming heart that I must educate you that Caden Tellier has gone to be with his Ruler and Savior. Caden cherished the Master with all his heart and was a sparkling light each day he graced the lobbies of Morgan Institute," he said.

Michael McLendon, official executive of the Alabama Autonomous School Affiliation said in a articulation that he sponsored the school's choice to cancel all classes and exercises this week, "giving their community time to come together, reflect, and back one another through this deplorable time."

"As a little school, Morgan Institute feels this catastrophe indeed more profoundly," McLendon said. The school has 339 understudies, agreeing to its website.

Tellier's passing is the most recent in a string of passings including tall school football players. A West Texas tall school player moreover passed on from a head damage in 2022, whereas a understudy kicked the bucket amid football hone in Florida in 2021 and a 15-year-old boy kicked the bucket after collapsing amid hone in Georgia the same year.


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