ID’d: TX Summer Creek Middle School Student Collapses Dies During Crowley Football Practice

CROWLEY, TX. (THECOUNT) — Kyrell McBride-Johnson, has been named as the 13-year-old who died after collapsing during football practice Wednesday night, officials said.

McBride-Johnson was a student at Summer Creek Middle School, which is part of the Crowley Independent School District.

In a district-wide letter, Crowley ISD Superintendent Michael McFarland said Kyrell McBride-Johnson was practicing with the Summer Creek Middle School football team when he suffered a yet unknown medical emergency that left him unresponsive.

“The entire Crowley ISD community is incredibly saddened by this tragedy and the loss of this young life,” McFarland wrote. “We do not yet know what caused Kyrell’s passing, but our priority right now is to provide support and care to the family, friends and educators who knew and loved him,” McFarland wrote. source

Coaches immediately began performing CPR as paramedics responded to the scene. The teen was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced deceased, McFarland wrote.