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An Alabama A&M football player who suffered a head injury during a game last month has died, a coroner’s office official said on Friday. Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was hurt Oct. 26 when the Bulldogs took on Alabama State in an annual gridiron game known as the Magic City Classic. The redshirt freshman linebacker played in seven games this season after transferring to Alabama A&M from Grambling. Burnett was pronounced dead on Wednesday, said AJ Clifton, a deputy coroner with the Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner Office. University officials on Wednesday issued a retraction after erroneously declaring in a statement Burnett had died.
Persons: Medrick Burnett, Burnett, AJ Clifton, Clifton, Organizations: Bulldogs, Alabama State, Magic, Alabama, Office, Saturday . University, NBC Locations: Alabama, Grambling, Jefferson
An Alabama A&M linebacker who suffered a head injury in an October football game died Wednesday night, a Jefferson County, Ala., deputy coroner confirmed Friday. Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old redshirt freshman for Alabama A&M, sustained the head injury in the Magic City Classic on Oct. 26 against in-state rival Alabama State, according to the Associated Press. Alabama A&M announced that Burnett had died Wednesday morning but withdrew its statement hours later after learning that he remained alive. The school said it was “originally advised by an immediate family member on Tuesday evening” before it heard from a representative of UAB Hospital. Statement from Athletics We retract the news of the passing of Medrick Burnette Jr, that was originally advised by an immediate family member on Tuesday evening.
Persons: Medrick Burnett, AJ Clifton, Burnett, , Medrick Burnette, Michael Wade Organizations: Alabama, Magic, Alabama State, Associated Press, UAB Hospital, — Alabama, Lakewood, Grambling State, Getty Locations: Alabama, Jefferson County, Ala, , Lakewood Calif
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