Ohio State University football player Kosta Karageorge found dead in bin
The 22-year-old appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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Your support makes all the difference.A missing college football player from Ohio State University, Amercia, has been found dead in a bin with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Kosta Karageorge, 22, went missing on Wednesday last week after he went for a walk in the middle of the night. He had sent text messages to his family that day claiming that concussions had messed with his head.
He was found on Sunday by a woman and her son looking for items in a large rubbish bin in Columbus, Ohio, and a handgun was also found in the bin, police spokesman Sgt Rich Weiner said.
His body was found less than 200 metres from his home and extremely close to the university campus, where he had been a Buckeyes wrestler for three years. He had played one game for the college football team this season.
Several hundred people attended a vigil held on the university campus on Sunday night, while Karageorge’s teammates have been mourning his death.
Wrestling coach Tom Ryan said that many of Karageorge’s teammates had wept at the news of his death. He said Karageorge had not had documented concussions during his time as a wrestler.
Speaking to The Columbus Dispatch, Ryan said “there was a lot of crying” when the team were told of Karageorge’s death.
“That says something because you know how men are. We don’t cry in front of anybody and don’t show weakness. But it was emotional.”
According to a missing person’s report, Karageorge’s mother, Susan, told police he had suffered several concussions and had experienced a few spells of being extremely confused.
She said her son had sent her a text at 1:30am on the morning he went missing stating the concussions had messed with his head. He wrote: “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment.”
When Karageorge went missing, his sister, Sophia, told The Columbus Dispatch that he was upset on the night he disappeared, while his roommates said he went for a walk dressed entirely in black from head to toe.
His sister said that after each concussion her brother had followed his trainer’s instructions and received proper care, but that “his repercussions from [concussions] have been long-term or delayed”.
Additional reporting by PA
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