American football player dies a month after head-on-head collision

An American shot subordinate has died a period aft suffering a head-on-head collision during a assemblage game.

Medrick Burnett Jr was playing for Alabama A&M University against Alabama State University connected 26 October - the time earlier his day - erstwhile the terrible wounded occurred.

His sister said connected his GoFundMe leafage that the 20-year-old linebacker had "several encephalon bleeds and swelling of the brain" pursuing the collision successful Birmingham, a metropolis successful the southeastern US state.

In a "last resort" to prevention his life, Dominece James said he'd had a craniotomy - the surgical removal of portion of the skull to exposure the brain.

Alabama A&M diversion section announced his decease connected Wednesday but aboriginal sent a retraction, saying the quality had travel via "an contiguous household member".

Jefferson County coroner confirmed connected Friday that Burnett Jr had died connected Wednesday evening.

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The freshman was from Lakewood, California, and joined Alabama A&M successful the summertime aft starting his assemblage vocation astatine Louisiana's Grambling State University.