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Sep 05, 2006 22:17

R.I.P.

BRIAN THOMAS.

Brawley Player Injured at Football Practice Dies

SAN DIEGO - Brian Thomas, a Brawley Union High School student injured

Wednesday during a football practice, died at 12:10 this morning, officials with the

University of California San Diego Medical Center said. Thomas, a 17-year-old senior, had

been on life support at the medical center since Wednesday, when he suffered a spine

injury during a varsity scrimmage. A family spokesman, the Rev. Joe Conner of New

Bethel Baptist Church in Brawley, said Thomas was pronounced brain dead at 3 p.m.

Sunday, and on Monday the family made the decision to take him off life support.
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