DeAntre Turman, top Georgia football prospect, dies after breaking neck in preseason scrimmage
 

Tragedy struck suburban Atlanta when a high school football player died during a preseason scrimmage after he made a tackle and suffered a broken neck.

As reported by CBS Atlanta, WSB-TV, the Associated Press and other sources, College Park (Ga.) Creekside High star DeAntre "Tre Tre" Turman was injured while being involved in a tackle during a preseason scrimmage against Bannecker (Ga.) High. According to Fulton County medical examiners, the junior cornerback suffered a broken neck, with a fracture of his third cervical vertebra.

Disturbingly, relatives and others who saw the tackle take place insist that the hit was a completely normal one, right up to the point where Truman didn?t get up off the turf.

"He tackled the guy," Turman's uncle, Kenneth Turman, told CBS Atlanta. "It was just a hard hit -- a regular hit that he?s made 1,000 times."

One of Creekside's football coaches, Glenn Ford, gave more details about the play to WSB

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That fucking sucks. Football has now killed 1 more person than pot.

Man I hate to see this. :-(

That's unbelievable... poor kid.