New Particulars have emerged concerning the dying of UNLV soccer switch Ben Christman, together with that the senior offensive lineman had complained of chest pains in the future earlier than he died.
A police report seen by the Las Vegas Assessment-Journal stated responding law enforcement officials on Feb. 11 — the day of his dying — had been instructed by one among Christman’s teammates that he had suffered chest pains throughout a crew observe the day prior.
One among his coaches then had Christman, 21, bear an EKG at a crew facility.
The outcomes had been despatched to the crew’s cardio physician, in keeping with the police report.
A day later, Christman was discovered useless.
The report additionally described the scene Las Vegas Metropolitan Law enforcement officials walked into once they had been dispatched to his off-campus residence at 10 a.m. native time on Feb. 11.
When officers arrived, two unnamed UNLV teammates of Christman had been already on the residence and stated that they’d come to examine on him after he missed a morning observe.
One participant instructed authorities that they arrived shortly earlier than 10 a.m. and located the 21-year-old mendacity “face up on his bed motionless with what appeared to be foam coming out of his mouth and his face and hands purple,” in keeping with the report.
The gamers known as 911 and the emergency dispatcher instructed one participant to start out CPR.
Christman had appeared to have been useless for a “few hours” and had purple coloration to his proper arm, the report stated.
Christman’s dying got here a day shy of his twenty second birthday.
A explanation for dying has not but been launched.
“Our team’s heart is broken to hear of Ben’s passing,” UNLV head coach Dan Mullen stated in an announcement after the participant’s dying. “Since the day Ben set foot on our campus a month ago, he made the Rebels a better program. Ben was an easy choice for our Leadership Committee as he had earned the immediate respect, admiration and friendship of all his teammates. Our prayers go out to his family and all who knew him. Ben made the world a better place and he will be missed.”
Christman, a four-star recruit popping out of highschool, started his faculty soccer profession at Ohio State, redshirting in 2021.
He made one look in 2022 after which spent the previous two seasons enjoying for Kentucky.
