One football player in northeast Ohio is playing with a heavy heart and a new purpose this fall after a tragedy befell his family just last month.

In early August, Mayfield (Ohio) rising senior Tyrone Tiggs was with his family in Myrtle Beach, S.C. It was on this vacation that Tiggs’ father drowned.

“My last moment with my dad, he was smiling at me,” Tiggs told the News-Herald after a recent practice. “I’ll always see that smile. That’s my memory, not the CPR they were doing on him at the beach.”

As the News-Herald reports, the trip to Myrtle Beach was somewhat of a spur-of-the-moment vacation plan for the Tiggs family. While Ty Tiggs didn’t want to take any time away from football, his father really wanted his son to come on the trip.

“Dad’s such a family guy,” Ty told the News-Herald. “He wanted us there. He kept asking me about it until finally he said I had to go.”

A weekend that was supposed to be filled with fun turned tragic on the second day. Ty, his brother Hadith and his brother-in-law had walked out to a sandbar of sorts, where the water would go from shallow to deeper to shallow again.

Ty’s father, Tyrone Tiggs, came out to the boys, walking in the water, then said he was going to go back to the shore to his wife and Ty’s mother, Rheaba, per the News-Herald.

After seeing his dad smile at them, he didn’t see him again.

“We went up to the beach and couldn’t find him,” Ty told the News-Herald. “Then I heard someone scream ‘Is anyone looking for a black man in white shorts?’

“I knew right then it was my dad. I was so shaken, I couldn’t move.”

Tyrone Tiggs had been pulled out to deeper waters by a strong current. He was pulled from the water facedown, suffering an apparent cardiac arrest.

It has obviously been a traumatic time for the Tiggs family, and the youngest child of the family in particular. He had had a sit-down conversation with his father before the year.

“He told me he wanted me to play Division I college football,” Ty told the News-Herald. “That’s literally the last conversation we had. We were sitting down and he said he wanted me to play on TV. We had a nice dinner, a nice talk, and he was telling me what he wanted for me.

“That was our last big conversation, and I’ll never forget it.”

The Herald-News reports that Tiggs has some Division II offers, from the likes of Ohio Dominican, Notre Dame College, Davenport (Iowa) University and Urbana. But he has his eyes on something bigger/

“I don’t care what I have to do — stay overtime, work, play any position,” Tiggs said. “I’m going to be that person you can change your program with.”

With memory of his dad on his mind, Tiggs forges ahead.

You can read more of the News-Herald story here.

The Georgia high school football player who died Sunday, two days after an in-game injury in Pike County’s game against Peach County, passed away as a result of a brain injury, per officials who spoke to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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The mystery now is determining what caused that brain injury, and how it slipped under the radar of coaches and trainers.

Pike County coach Brad Webber told the Journal Constitution that Thomas was wearing a Riddell SpeedFlex helmet manufactured this year. That helmet is worn by some NFL and college players. He was not involved in a tackling play immediately before collapsing on the sideline, adding to the mystery behind his injury and death.

“He was talking and (was) fine and then things went bad,” Webber told the Journal Constitution. . . . “He was the heart and soul of our team.… The sky was going to be the limit.”

What those at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., have been through over the past nine months almost defies comprehension. Some, like late assistant football coach Aaron Feis, gave their lives on the day of that horrific mass shooting in February.

Feis was among the 17 victims honored during a ceremony Thursday night at the school’s football game against Taravella High School (Coral Springs, Fla.). As the Sun-Sentinel reports, the Stoneman Douglas football program retired Feis’ No. 73 as part of a ceremony to honor Feis and the 16 other victims of the shooting.

“He’s deserving of that,” Stoneman Douglas head coach Willis May told the Sun-Sentinel. “It’s not because of what happened. If he lived and decided to quit the game, they should retire it just because of the person he was while he was here.”

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“He was Douglas football,” May told the Sun-Sentinel. “He’s been here a long time. He played here, he coached here. He loved Douglas football and everybody knew he loved Douglas football.

“He had nothing but the concern of the kids at all times, trying to make them better people, give them a chance to have a good life. And he changed a lot of lives while he was here. There’s a lot of kids that played here that will tell you that if it wasn’t for coach Feis, they wouldn’t have or be doing what they’re doing now.”

Per the Sun-Sentinel, the families of the 14 students and teacher Scott Beigel were given game balls. Former athletic director Chris Hixon’s family was given a framed gameday polo, and Feis’ family was given his framed jersey.

“We said we were going to do it, period,” May said of retiring Feis’ No. 73. “From the first day. Nobody needs to wear his jersey. That’s his jersey.”

A bus carrying a junior varsity football team as well as seventh- and eighth-grade teams in Alabama was involved in a deadly crash on Tuesday night.

Authorities told KTRK-TV and other outlets that the Handley High School (Roanoke, Ala.) JV football team was returning from a game Tuesday night when the bus collided with another car in Talladega, Ala.

Handley varsity coach Larry Strain told AL.com that the bus was also carrying the middle school teams and were returning from a game in Leeds.

Per WVTM, the wreck happened around 9:23 p.m. when a pickup truck  traveling westbound crossed the median and struck the school bus head-on.

Authorities said the female driver of the truck was killed. She’s been identified as 31-year-old Amanda Nicole Hubbard of Munford, Ala.

Per multiple outlets, eight Handley students and three adults from the bus were injured. The bus driver was also airlifted to a hospital.

As the Sacramento Bee’s Joe Davidson describes, Nevada Union High School (Grass Valley, Calif.) senior running back Dawson Fay is setting records at his school.

He has done all that this year with late friends Tyler Nielson and Justin Gardner at the front of his mind.

“I think about them all the time, it’s constant,” Fay told the Bee. “It’s still shocking. I miss them every day. I still have memories of what the car looked like.”

On March 26, the three teenagers were on their way to California’s Central Coast for spring break, following their parents, the Bee described. Fay, Gardner and Nielson were struck head-on by a drunk driver on Interstate 5, near Los Banos. Nielson died instantly. Gardner, who was sitting behind Nielson, died about four hours later in the hospital.

As for Fay, he suffered a fractured left hip and facial lacerations, which have since healed.

“How did I survive?” Fay asks himself often and again in this interview with The Bee. “What are the chances that this would happen? I wonder what would have happened if we left a moment later from where we had lunch? I have a lot of guilt.

“I was very close to death. Their side of the car was demolished, and my (passenger side) was barely touched. I know I’m super lucky. I absolutely think Tyler and Justin are looking down on me with pride.”

Fay has rushed for 1,811 yards this season, 121 shy of the school single-season mark, the Bee reports. He already owns the Nevada Union career rushing mark with a total of 3,599 yards.

Fay told the Bee he always has two brothers with him in spirit. He switched to No. 5 this year, Nielson’s number when he was a running back and linebacker as a senior last year. Gardner was slated to be a junior quarterback and linebacker.

“In my 25 years in coaching, there’s no football handbook that prepares you for this,” Miners first-year coach Brad Sparks told the Bee. “Dawson’s handled it all remarkably well. I’ve seen his low points and he always bounces back. He’s motivated, works hard, does well in the classroom, is involved in community service. I really respect him.

“He had every reason to step away but he keeps coming back.”

You can read the rest of Davidson’s heart-wrenching story here.

The Joliet (Mont.) High School football team steeled itself all preseason to overcome adversity. Now it’s dealing with more than it imagined, in a single powerful dose.

On Thursday morning, Joliet sophomore football player Paul McKay died in a head-on highway crash. As reported by Billings CBS affiliate KTVQ, the death was sudden and unexpected, but hours later his teammates were back on a field preparing for a playoff game on Saturday.

“Our coach has been teaching us about adversity this year,” Joliet senior lineman and linebacker Grant O’Rourke told KTVQ. “And it’s been a really good life lesson not knowing this is going to happen, but when it did happen, we were there and we were strong enough to handle it.”

The point: just because Joliet held a practice doesn’t mean it isn’t grieving for McKay.

There is a natural cycle of grief that anyone, let alone a teenager, should be expected to go through. McKay’s teammates haven’t had the time to work through that yet. But the team also knows that its season hangs in the balance Saturday when they take on Scobey.

If McKay would have wanted his team to continue, he would understand that they had to continue practicing in anticipation of the playoffs.

Come game time, Joliet will wear number 70 stickers on the back of football helmets and paint a large “70” on the 50-yard line. It’s just a small nod to the memory of a teammate gone far too soon, but one which also speaks to the importance he played within the team and how much he’ll be missed, practice or not.

“Paul McKay, I’ll tell you he had one of the brightest smiles that I’ve ever seen,” Joliet coach George Warburton told KTVQ. “Every time I’d see him, he’d tell me hello. He made it a point to say hi to us and to all the other adults and kids and so he was a bright spot in our community for sure.”

A high school football player at Delaware Valley High School (Delaware Township, Penn.) was killed in a tragic vehicle accident after attending the school’s football banquet Sunday night, leaving his teammates in a state of shock.

Kyle Pascoe, a 16-year-old junior, was driving home from the annual Delaware Valley High School football banquet when he lost control of his car, struck a pickup truck and died upon impact. According to ABC affiliate WNEP, the crash was the second for the Pascoe family in recent weeks after the teenager’s mother was previously involved in a frightening crash near the high school.

Meanwhile, the football program has struggled to come to grips with the loss of a beloved teammate just hours after he was celebrating the team’s senior night banquet.

“It’s tough, not easy. We had our banquet senior night, three hours later one of their teammates is dead,” Delaware Valley football coach Keith Olsommer told WNEP. “… (He was) really well liked. You can tell that in the school. A lot of people were in pain yesterday. Going to miss him, don’t want him to be gone and forgotten. He’ll be with us for a while.”

The Delaware Township community has rallied behind the Pascoe family, and a GoFundMe account has raised nearly all of its $20,000 goal to help the Pascoes with funeral expenses.

An Oklahoma community is in mourning after a horrific attack that left a star high school football player dead and his sisters wounded.

As KJRH and other outlets report, investigators were called to a home in Beggs, Okla., on Thursday morning following a reported shooting.

When deputies arrived, they found two teenagers suffering from gunshot wounds. They also found the body of 18-year-old Kayson Toliver.

Toliver was a senior and a star running back at Beggs High School. His sisters, a junior and a freshman at the school, were wounded in the shooting.

Officials with the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office told KJRH that the 16-year-old victim is in serious condition, while the 14-year-old victim is in good condition.

“In a small community, everyone knows the kids,” Beggs superintendent Bryan Terry told KJRH.

Toliver’s mother, Amy Hall, is accused in the shooting, per authorities. She has been arrested and charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill.

On Friday night, members of the Beggs football team played a game against Sperry (Okla.) with heavy hearts as they remembered their slain teammate. As the Tulsa World reports, on Beggs’ first offensive possession, the quarterback stood behind the line of scrimmage with his hands on hips, watching the play clock tick down.

From the Tulsa World:

Ordinarily, No. 27, Kayson Toliver, would have been lined up in the backfield. But his spot was empty. Beggs had only 10 players on the field.

The stands fell silent. No clapping. No cow bells. No fight songs. Just hundreds of people waiting for a play not to happen.

The referee threw a flag. The Sperry coach, as planned well in advance, declined the penalty. And Beggs sent a backup running back onto the field.

The game went on without No. 27. But not without his absence being deeply felt on both sides of the stadium.

Toliver had run for 580 yards and five touchdowns during his senior season. As the World reported, the pregame was a memorial of sorts in Toliver’s memory, with the coin toss held at the 27-yard line instead of at midfield, flowers decorating the spot.

Sperry fans wore white T-shirts with golden No. 27s and gave a standing ovation as Beggs playerstook the field.

“We are deeply moved by the Sperry community,” Beggs Athletic Director Justin Been told the World, “and what they’re doing for us.”

When the latest tragic American mass shooting unfolded early Thursday in Thousand Oaks, Calif., an entire community reacted with horror and revulsion. For one woman, there was also a strong tinge of deja vu.

That’s because the atrocities allegedly committed by Ian David Long, a U.S. Marines veteran, were foreshadowed by the way he treated Dominique Colell, his high school track and field coach at Newbury Park (Calif.) High School.

“He attacked me. He attacked his high school track coach,” Colell told Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL. “Who does that?”

Colell said she found a phone and that Long attempted to take it from her.

“Ian came up and started screaming at me that it was his phone. He just started grabbing me. He groped my stomach. He groped my butt. I pushed him off me and said after that — ‘You’re off the team.’”

While many have cited Long’s military service as a possible catalyst for his mental illness and, eventually, the shooting, Colell isn’t buying it. Instead, she’s insisting that he was always mentally unstable.

“There are hundreds of thousands of people with PTSD,” Colell said. “They don’t go around shooting people. This kid was mentally disturbed in high school. There were signs and the administration knew it.”

A Georgia man is accused of creating a fraudulent GoFundMe account to accept money on behalf of Pike County High School (Ga.) football player Dylan Thomas, who died after collapsing on the field in September.

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Justus Hughley, 22, of Upson County, Ga., was arrested and charged with computer theft for allegedly trying to steal monetary donations from people who believed they were sending money to the grieving Thomas family, the Pike County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

A 17-year-old linebacker, Thomas died Sept. 30 of cardiac arrest from a traumatic brain injury he suffered during a game against Peach County (Fort Valley, Ga.) two days earlier.

According to police’s post, Hughley allegedly used a bank account in Iowa to attempt to transfer the money from the GoFundMe to his personal account.

The post said that the transaction was reported as fraudulent and no money was received by Hughley. Computer IP addresses and banking information provided by the suspect to GoFundMe and a bank were used to locate the suspect in Upson County.

He remains in the Pike County Jail without bond, police said in the post.

A driver died after colliding with a school bus carrying a high school basketball team in western Wisconsin late Tuesday night.

As KARE and other outlets reported, deputies and first responders were dispatched following 911 calls reporting a crash shortly before 10 p.m. Per KARE, investigators believe 55-year-old Joy Tew of Rice Lake, Wis., crossed the center line on Highway 48 and struck a school bus carrying the Amery (Wis.) High School girls basketball team.

Per KARE, Tew was pronounced dead on the scene while 22 students, four coaches and the bus driver were treated and released.

Highway 48 was closed to traffic for five hours after the crash.

“I would like to thank all of our first responders that responded to this scene and assisted last night and a special thanks goes out to the Amery Girls team, coaches and parents who waited patiently with each other while everyone was checked out and reunited with family,” Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said, according to the Chetek Alert. “As the busiest travel day of the year please take your time, buckle up and never drink and drive so you can get home to your family for this holiday season.”

The day after a crash in that killed a 17-year-old Georgia high school student and injured three others, authorities identified the teenagers involved and said charges may be filed against the driver.

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, the single-car crash killed front-seat passenger Stephen Smith, a senior at Creekview High School (Canton, Ga.) and a member of the school’s track and field team.

Per the Journal-Constitution, the car’s driver, identified Wednesday as 17-year-old Fred Engamba, was taken to the hospital and released.

Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jay Baker said per the Journal-Constitution that“charges are likely” in the case, but “investigators will wait until they complete their investigation and until toxicology results return before determining what charges to file.”

The three injured were also Creekview students, a school district spokeswoman told the Journal-Consitution.

Back-seat passenger Chase Burr, 17, is also a track athlete and has serious injuries. The Journal-Constitution reports that a 15-year-old passenger was taken to the hospital and released.

Baker told reporters Tuesday that the teens were driving at about 2 p.m. when the vehicle lost control down an embankment and hit a tree. Investigators said speed may have been a factor in the crash.

The school’s track and field team remembered Smith on their Facebook page.

A letter sent to parents from Creekview Principal Mark Merges and shared with the Journal-Constitution said Smith was “an energetic student who was known as a friend to all.”

“He always came to class in a good mood with a smile on his face,” Merges wrote. “He was always willing to help out classmates and loved track and field, especially the jumping events.”

Two San Diego teenagers who took a Black Friday trip to Mexico were shot and killed execution-style in a triple homicide Sunday morning at a Tijuana apartment complex.

As the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, the victims were Christopher Alexis Gomez, 17, a football player in his senior year at O’Farrell Charter High School in San Diego’s Encanto neighborhood. and Juan Suarez-Ojeda, who graduated from Encanto’s Ingenuity Charter School earlier this year.

The third victim was an 18-year-old Tijuana man, Gomez’s cousin Katheryn Garcia told the Union-Tribune. According to the Union-Tribune, the trio had gone to a barbecue in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, on Friday and were supposed to return that night.

A Tijuana police detective told Gomez’s family the three teens were tortured before they were shot Sunday, Garcia told the Union-Tribune.

According to Tijuana media reports and relayed by the Union-Tribune, the deadly gunfire erupted around 5 a.m. Sunday at a housing complex in south-central Tijuana. When police arrived, they found three young men dressed only in their underwear strewn in front of an apartment door.

According to Tijuana news site Punto Norte, an initial investigation suggested a group of armed men had moved the three teens at gunpoint, made them kneel and shot them each in the head execution-style,

Garcia told the Union-Tribune that Gomez recently got his first job cleaning cars at a parking lot near the San Diego International Airport and was planning to graduate from O’Farrell Charter next year before joining the Marines.

“We’re all in disbelief that this happened,” Garcia said through tears to the Union-Tribune. “This was his first time going over to Tijuana or Ensenada.”

“It’s been pretty devastating for students and staff,” O’Farrell Charter Superintendent Jonathan Dean told the Union-Tribune Wednesday night. “It’s a tough situation.”

The high school’s senior class of about 135 students was planning to create a memorial Thursday.

The superintendent called Gomez a “really nice, good kid” who was a leader during this, the football team’s inaugural season.

According to the Union-Tribune, O’Farrell Charter faculty set up a GoFundMe site for both San Diego families, and Garcia also set up a GoFundMe to help her cousin’s family, who she said was struggling financially to bring his body back to San Diego.

Tragedy struck an Arkansas highway Monday when a youth football team from Memphis was involved in a bus crash as it traveled back home from a tournament in Texas.

As reported by our partners with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the bus in question was involved in a crash on Interstate 30 near Benton, Ark. One child was reported as dying in the accident, while some 45 other people were reportedly injured in the crash. It is unknown how many of those injured are children and how many are adult chaperones.

The team from the Orange Mound Youth Association — a football program in a historically black neighborhood of Memphis that has rallied around the youth football teams — was en route from Dallas, where it competed on Sunday. The youth football players were all elementary school aged, according to the Associated Press.

“On behalf of all Memphians, our hearts and prayers go out to the Orange Mound children and their families involved in this morning’s tragic bus accident in Arkansas,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland told the media in a statement.

Little Rock-based Arkansas Children’s Hospital, which is approximately 25 miles from the site of the crash, received 25 injured children, all of whom are currently listed as stable. Officials at Arkansas Children’s also moved quickly to establish a family reunification area, while state troopers have questioned the driver of the bus, which appears to have crashed near a highway exit with a sharp curve.

A bus carrying a junior varsity girls basketball team in Illinois crashed with a semitrailer truck Wednesday night as the bus was returning from a basketball game.

The accident, which took place near Downs, Ill., claimed the lives of two adults in the accident, while eight of the 11 students on the bus were transported to nearby hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, per the Associated Press.

The team hails from Normal (Ill.) West High School and had been participating in a game in Champaign against Champaign Central High School. The Pantagraph, an Illinois newspaper, reported that the team’s coach Steve Price was in fair condition Thursday after suffering multiple broken bones in the crash, while the bus driver remained in critical condition.

The two deceased have been identified as girls basketball volunteer Charlie Crabtree, a 72-year-old Normal resident, and the driver of the truck, Ryan E. Hute of Delmar, Iowa.

According to police the semi was traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate-74 Wednesday night, and an investigation is ongoing.

“People care about each other in this school and this community, and I think they just wanted to be together during this horrible tragedy,” McClean County Unit 5 schools spokesperson Dayna Brown told the Pantagraph and other assembled press Wednesday night. “We can’t thank this community enough for their support. We will be sure that everyone is supported in anything they need.”

A South Carolina community is mourning the death of a high school football player who was killed in a car crash.

Joshua Daniel Burgess, a 17-year-old senior at Wade Hampton High School (Greenville, S.C.), was pronounced dead on scene of the Wednesday crash in front of a Target shopping plaza, reported Greenville County Coroner B. Parks Evans, Jr., to The State and other outlets.

Additionally, three others have been hospitalized with serious injuries after the three-vehicle collision involving a stolen car, the Greer (S.C.) Police Department told The State and other outlets.

Burgess played wide receiver and cornerback for Wade Hampton.

According to a Facebook post from the Taylors Youth Association, Burgess was also a youth football coach.

“Josh was a great guy and will never be forgotten. He was a great coach and mentor to our players,” read a Facebook post on the association’s page. According to the post, there will be a candlelight vigil in Burgess’ memory Thursday night at the high school.

According to police, Burgess was driving a 2016 Toyota Corolla when the crash occurred just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night.

As The State describes, Burgess had two passengers in the car, which was stopped at a red light when it was struck from behind by a 2016 Honda Accord. Police reported that the Accord was stolen earlier that day.

Police told The State and other that witnesses claimed the Accord was speeding when it crashed into the Corolla.

The impact caused Burgess’ car to roll on its side after being hit from behind, and the Accord went into the median, “where it struck a 1998 Honda that was attempting to make a left turn,” according to what police said.

Both of Burgess’ passengers were taken to an area hospital, along with the driver of the stolen Accord, according to what police told outlets. Both Burgess’ sister and cousin were in the car with him as they were returning from church, according to WYFF.

According to a GoFundMe set up for the Burgess family, Joshua’s sister Lily needs “extensive orthopaedic surgery.” In one day, the campaign has raised over $18,000.

Per The State, there has been no update on the conditions of Burgess’ cousin or the driver of the Accord.

No charges have been filed, but the collision remains under investigation.

An Oklahoma school district is mourning the loss of a softball player who was killed when the team’s bus collided with a drunk driver after a game.

As reported by Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO, Konawa Junior High sixth grade softball player Rhindi Isaacs was killed when the school bus carrying members of her softball team collided head on with an SUV that was reportedly piloted by a drunk driver. The male driver and female passenger of the SUV were also pronounced dead on the scene, according to ABC.

The team bus, which was carrying six players and their coach, was returning from a game in Okemah, Okla. when it collided with the SUV, which was allegedly driven by a man who was charged with a DUI just a week earlier and also had two prior DUI convictions from prior decades.

On Sunday, Isaacs’ former schoolmates met at Konawa Junior High School for a prayer vigil in her memory, still trying to make sense of her sudden, permanent absence.

“Anytime one of your kids gets hurt, you feel it, just like it would be if it were yours,” Konawa Public Schools Superintendent Cory Ellis told KOCO. “At this point, it’s definitely going to have an imprint on everybody from here on out, and the best thing we can do is provide support.”

A high school wrestler in Florida was struck and killed by a driver while out for a morning run, leaving a community behind to grieve his loss and remember his spirit.

As reported by Jacksonville news network WJXT, Ponte Vedra (Fla.) High School wrestler Zander Laurin was hit and killed Wednesday after he was struck by a pickup truck while out on a run before school.

The sophomore was a key member of the school’s wrestling team and was training to attempt the entry test for the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets Corps, according to his mother.

“He would always pick everybody up. That was … his best quality. I mean, he, no matter, what the outcome of the match was, you know, (win) or lose he was right there with his teammates,” Laurin’s wrestling coach, Josean Gonzalez, told WJXT. “We’re really going to miss him.”

While classmates he left behind continue to memorialize Laurin in school, one of his friends has already been moved to help remember him outside school as well; per WJXT, a candlelight vigil will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Mickler’s Landing Beach Park in Ponte Vedra.

A Louisiana high school football player collapsed and died after his team’s practice.

As reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Louisiana NBC affiliate WDSU, Amite (La.) High School 15-year-old Terrance Allen collapsed and died after the conclusion of one of the team’s summer practices.

Per the Times-Picayune, the Amite Police Department was notified of an emergency at the school. EMTs and firefighters were quickly on the scene, before local police, but were unable to resuscitate the teenager before he was pronounced dead after arriving at a local hospital.

There has been no reason provided for Allen’s death to this point. In fact, all information about the incident remains limited, though his team posted a memorial image to its Facebook account shortly after Allen’s passing.

A Toledo (Ohio) Scott High School rising senior football player was shot and killed Sunday in broad daylight, raising concerns about public safety in the city and what caused such a promising life to end so early.

As reported by the Toledo Blade, 18-year-old Glenn Scurles, a soon-to-be Scott senior, was shot on Woodrow Boulevard in the city. He was aided with chest compressions from a neighbor who witnessed the shooting, but was later pronounced dead at the city’s Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center.

The youngest of seven children, Scurles went by the nickname Gezzy to his family and friends, who insist he was the farthest thing from a “gangbanger.”

“This is our little brother,” Jasmine Tucker, one of Scurles’ six older sisters, told the Blade. “This is something that’s unexpected. He wasn’t a gangbanger. He don’t be in the street. He don’t go to clubs. He don’t drink. He don’t do none of that.

“He was a mama’s boy, my mom’s only son. He was a real good football player, but he also loved spending time with his family, his nieces and sisters.”

Scurles’ loss is sure to be keenly felt across the Scott community. He was said to be greatly liked, and even a mentor to other Scott students.

Now, they’ll mourn his loss together with his family, wondering what might have been of such a promising life.