Alabama A&M soccer participant Medrick Burnett Jr. is alive, regardless of the varsity saying his loss of life.
The college introduced the information on Wednesday in a press launch solely to have to drag it down later within the day and retract the assertion by athletic director Dr. Paul Bryant.
The confusion got here to gentle when members of Burnet’s household informed native retailers that the varsity put out incorrect info, TMZ reported.
Alabama A&M later mentioned in an announcement that they had been basing their authentic assertion off info from “an immediate family member.”
“We retract the news of the passing of Medrick Burnette Jr, that was originally advised by an immediate family member on Tuesday evening,” A&M sports activities info director Brian Howard mentioned. “Our employees acted accordingly to the desires of the member of the family to tell the A&M neighborhood and past of this unlucky incidence.
“Upon hearing from a representative from UAB hospital this afternoon, we learned that he remains alive. We express our immediate regret for disseminating false information however, we hold complete joy in knowing that Medrick remains in stable condition.”
Burnett is a linebacker at Alabama A&M and had been significantly injured in the course of the Maig Metropolis Basic on Halloween.
He had suffered a extreme head harm from a collision and was taken off the sector on a stretcher.
Burnett had appeared in seven video games this season and had transferred to Alabama A&M from Grambling State.
He had celebrated his twentieth birthday on Oct. 27.
Burnett’s sister, Dominece James, wrote on a GoFundMe that he had “several brain bleeds and swelling of the brain.”
In an replace on the web page on Wednesday, she wrote that he was “having a tough time.”
“But we are holding on til the very end. God give us strength so we can keep the faith,” James wrote.
