WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas community college agreed under mounting pressure to an independent investigation into the heatstroke death last year of a football player who collapsed after the first day of conditioning practice.
Trustees for Garden City Community College voted Tuesday evening to authorize the outside probe into the death of 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth of Neptune, New Jersey. He was found unconscious outside his dorm room on Aug. 1 after practice and died that night at a hospital.
I am hoping that this will finally let me know my sons last moments, his mother, Joanne Atkins-Ingram, said Wednesday in phone interview from New Jersey. And I am hoping that through this investigation they will find out exactly what went wrong and how to correct it appropriately and to make sure that whatever changes need to be made, will be made.