New Jersey high school football player died from lacerated spleen

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:55pm EDT

New Jersey high school football player died from lacerated spleen

NEW YORK | BY DANIEL BASES

A New Jersey high school football player's death on Saturday was the result of massive internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen, the medical examiner said in a statement on Monday.

The autopsy showed Evan Murray, the quarterback of the Warren Hills Regional High School, had an abnormally large spleen, thereby making it more susceptible to injury.

"The autopsy determined that the cause of death was massive intra-abdominal hemorrhage (massive internal bleeding) due to a laceration of the spleen," Morris County, New Jersey Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Suarez said in a statement published by local media.

Suarez said there was no evidence of head trauma or heart disease and ruled the death accidental.

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[Dorian Gray]

1. I just read this story

at another site, and it made me so sad for him and his family. He sounds like a good kid who had a lot going for him, and this is such a terrible tragedy.

I am thankful that I don't have a son who might want to play football. It would be very difficult to say yes to such a sport with all the tragedies.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Raises questions, too, though.

Wonder why his spleen was so enlarged to begin with? Mononucleosis? There is more here we don't know. As a clinically curious person this kind of thing drives me batty. His poor family.