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Terrifying Scenario Transforms Into Beautiful Moment During Elizabeth Football Game
Chase Young was on track to play his best game of the season.
It was the first game all year that the senior St. Thomas Aquinas running back had run 100 yards, Head Coach Tarig Holman said of the game at Elizabeth on Friday, Sept. 27.
But then, with about 2.5 minutes left of the third quarter and a score of 25-8, St. Thomas Aquinas in the lead against Elizabeth, Young went unconscious.
"I was getting ready to call a play. I looked at my play sheet, looked back up, and [Chase] was on the ground," said Holman, in his third season as head coach.
"At that point, it was much larger than footba…
Maryland Nurse Believed Killed By HS Football Coach Boyfriend Mourned By Loved Ones
Friends and loved ones are mourning the loss of the Maryland woman strangled by her boyfriend, a high school football coach.
Patrina Best, 38, was found by police on Saturday, Feb. 17 during a welfare check at her inside of her Accokeek home, and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Carl Kearney, Jr., 43, a high school football coach, was charged with murder after turning himself in at the Prince George's County Police Department, and saying he'd strangled his girlfriend earlier that day, county police said.
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ON Video: Bergen Footballer, 17, Stabbed In Heart By Long Island Killer, DA Says
A surveillance camera recorded a Long Island man stabbing a 17-year-old New Jersey high school football player dead and slashing his older brother during a fight in downtown Manhattan on Thanksgiving, city authorities revealed.
An autopsy revealed that a 6-inch stab wound pierced the heart of Rocco Rodden in front of an ax-throwing bar on Lafayette Street around 1:50 a.m., Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eun Bi Kim said on Saturday, Nov. 25.
The accused killer, Gianluca Bordone, 19, of Oyster Bay, was wearing a black sweatshirt with the word "courage" on the back when he was brought …
Air Force Hopeful, Virginia's Robert Martinez Inglis Dies, 17
Seventeen-year-old Roberto A. Martinez Inglis, of Falls Church, died on Saturday, Aug. 12.
A rising high school senior, Roberto hoped to join the Air Force, his obituary says.
"Roberto was a good teenager who constantly tried to impact the lives of those around him positively in his own unique way," his obit reads. "Well known in the football community, Roberto made sure that those closest to him were happy at all times."
A cause of death was not listed.
Roberto is survived by his brother, Lorenzo; parents, Stephannie and Anthony Inglis; along with a host of aunts, uncles, grandparents, c…
Football Star, 24, Dies Of Injuries From Trenton Shooting: Prosecutor
A 24-year-old man from Mercer County died of injuries suffered in a shooting in Trenton earlier this month, authorities said.
Justin Prescott Reed, of Ewing, died on May 22, as a result of injuries he sustained in the May 14 shooting on Brunswick Avenue, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said on Wednesday, May 31.
No arrests had been made in the shooting as of press time, authorities said.
Reed was a star football player at Ewing High School. He later played football at Delaware Valley University, Monroe College and Mercer Community College, his obituary said.
He enjoyed eat…
Standout NY College Football Player ID'd As Man Struck, Killed By Train
Authorities have identified the man who was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road train.
The incident happened at around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, west of the Wyandanch station, near the intersection of Long Island Avenue and Straight Path.
On Thursday, May 25, the victim was identified as 30-year-old Demetrius Houanche, of Deer Park, an MTA spokesperson told Daily Voice.
Earlier Report: Person Struck, Killed By Train Near LIRR Station In Wyandanch
Houanche had been on the tracks illegally and was struck by an eastbound train, the spokesperson said.
The incident halted servi…
