Alabama high school football player dies of brain injury sustained during game
A high school football star has died after suffering a brain injury during a game on Friday night, his school and family have confirmed.
A high school football star has died after suffering a brain injury during a game on Friday night, his school and family have confirmed.
Quarterback Caden Tellier, 16, was injured during a tackle in the third quarter, playing for the John T. Morgan Academy, a private school in Selma, Alabama, versus Southern Academy.
His mother, Arsella Slagel Tellier, said in a Facebook post on Saturday: "Everyone who knows Caden has known kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he is giving of himself one more time."
"Lives have been touched by the way he lived and now lives will be saved through his passing," she said.
The specific details of what happened in the moment before and during the tackle are unclear. A GoFundMe page to cover funeral expenses, which has already raised $75,000 of its $100,000 target, said Tellier died from a “traumatic brain injury.” The GoFundMe page also mentions that Tellier was an organ donor.
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