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Marlin Adarryl Barnes (April 6, 1974 – April 13, 1996) [1] was a linebacker for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He was found brutally beaten to death in his apartment in 1996, along with his longtime friend, Timwanika Lumpkins. [2] Barnes was a six-foot, 220-pound linebacker who played second string for the Hurricanes.
Bryan Sidney Pata (August 12, 1984 – November 7, 2006) was an American football defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes and was majoring in criminology. [2] After leaving a football practice during his fourth year at the school, Pata was murdered, a crime unsolved for 15 years, but eventually discovered to have possibly been committed by a Miami teammate.
The murder was covered on the Investigation Discovery show The Perfect Murder. His jersey number was retired by the team in October 2021; he was the third player in the team's history to have that honor. [59] The ceremony also included naming of a road to the stadium in his honor. [60]
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
Shane Clifton Curry (April 7, 1968 – May 4, 1992) was an American football defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Georgia Tech and the Miami. He was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 1991 NFL draft. [1]
His plan was to get a football scholarship and go to the NFL to get money and get his family out of the violent streets of Miami. At Miami Edison High School , Howard was an All-Dade County pick as a senior, and named MVP of the annual Nike Dade-Broward All-Star Game after returning a punt 70 yards for a touchdown and making a 45-yard touchdown ...
Aaron Josef Hernandez [a] (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
At Cordova High, Rozier was an athletic wunderkind: the teen played American football as a defensive end and was "all-league, all-conference, all-Northern California." The high-schooler could also high jump six feet seven inches (2.01 m), vertical jump ten feet (3.0 m), sprint the 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds, and bench press 375 pounds (170 kg).