"He's just overheated ... and we've got water on him ... he's responsive and he's got a big rapid pulse but ..." Deacon said. "... He keeps going ... yeah he's awake ... we're trying to get him to open his eyes right now ... he's got a rapid pulse."
In the background, someone is urging Gilpin: "Come on get them eyes open ... keep them eyes open ... there you go ... get them eyes all the way up ... get them eyes open ... there you go."
His coach David Jason Stinson - in his first season as head coach with the team - was charged with reckless homicide meaning a grand jury did not believe that he had premeditatedly or maliciously killed his player but rather that any normal human being would have been able to prevent such a death from occurring.
From 1960 to 2007 114 people suffered heat strokes that resulted in death while playing various levels of football, making Max’s death just another sad precautionary tale for others to look at and learn from, hopefully preventing another young person’s death.
(source)
5 comments:
This is unreal. The boys FATHER was THERE. Why is it that he is not being held liable for his negligence! I feel that the FATHER has more of a responsibility to his child than that of a football coach! Why the heck didn't the FATHER pull the boy from the field? This story infuriates me!
Christine in New York
My son was on that field and played football with Max there is soooo much people arent hearing about. The weather was not that hot for football and if the soccer parents were so concerned about the heat why were they letting their daughters play a game on the field they shared with the football team They didn't have air conditioning going on them. It was 89 outside with a heat index of 94 come on people
My son was on that field and played football with Max there is soooo much people arent hearing about. The weather was not that hot for football and if the soccer parents were so concerned about the heat why were they letting their daughters play a game on the field they shared with the football team They didn't have air conditioning going on them. It was 89 outside with a heat index of 94 come on people
The only thing criminal going on here is charging the coach with murder. That is obscene. It is a tragedy the young man died, but the coach is not a killer, now this man's life and love is being taken from him? I saw him on t.v. - this is a broken man. He obviously loved Max and I don't personally know him, but I could tell. This is an absolute outrage. Leave the coach alone.
You guys just don't get it. I taught HS Science and coached for 30 years and something I've learned from living 65 years is this case has nothing to do with the coach or the dead player. It is always about the same thing - follow the money. Some sleazy lawyers are going to make a bunch of money out this. The coach's life is ruined, the kid is dead, his parents have been dealt a blow from which they will never recover, but some greasey, sleezy ambulance chaser is going to wind up with everything the coach owns, and probably the school district too.
John Gault - Atlanta
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