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LOUISVILLE,
Ky. — A Kentucky high
school football coach was
charged Thursday with
reckless
homicide in the death
of a player who collapsed during a sweltering practice in a rare criminal case against a coach in a heat death.
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A grand jury indicted David Jason Stinson in the death of Pleasure Ridge Park offensive lineman Max Gilpin. Stinson, in his first year as head coach at the Louisville school, was directing practice on Aug. 20 when the heat index reached 94 degrees and the 15-year-old sophomore collapsed and had trouble breathing.
The player
had a temperature of 107
degrees when he arrived at
the hospital, authorities
said, and died three days
later.
No autopsy was performed, but it appeared Gilpin died from complications from heat stroke, according to the coroner's office.
