Alabama teen dies after head injury during high school football game

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Alabama teen ***** after head injury during high school football game

An Alabama community is in mourning following the ****** of a high school quarterback who suffered a brain injury during the

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Friday night, according to statements from school officials and the teen’s family.

Caden Tellier was taken to a hospital in critical condition after a head injury in John T. Morgan Academy’s game against visiting Southern Academy, officials said Friday night, and his ****** was announced the next day.

Tellier was 16, according to CNN affiliate

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. He suffered a brain injury, according to a

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from Alabama Independent School Association Executive Director Michael McLendon. Officials didn’t share details on how Tellier was injured.

“Our boy, Caden Tellier has met ****** face to face,” Tellier’s parents said Saturday in a statement. “Everyone who knows Caden has known kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he is giving of himself one more time.”

The school’s headmaster, Bryan Oliver, confirmed that Tellier was an organ donor,

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“ Lives have been touched by the way he lived and now lives will be saved through his passing,” his parents’ statement added.

Oliver called Tellier a shining light who graced the halls of the Selma, Alabama, private school.

“He was a student, a friend, an athlete and most important a ******* follower. There are no words to describe how we feel as a school community and family,” Oliver said in

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The Tellier family said a service will be scheduled soon. Morgan Academy school officials have suspended all school activities this week, according to the school association.

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