A 19-year-old college baseball player was killed when a dugout collapsed on him while he was volunteering at a Pennsylvania park, his school said in a Wednesday letter to students.
A 19-year-old college baseball player was killed when a dugout collapsed on him while he was volunteering at a Pennsylvania park, his school said in a WednesdayAngel Mercado and several others were working on a wooden dugout in a Harrisburg park on Monday when the structure collapsed, according to Central Penn College.
"As friends who have become family, we are mourning the heart-wrenching loss of one of our own, a promising young athlete who senselessly lost his life while helping others enjoy the sport he loved so much," Central Penn President Linda Fedrizzi-Williams wrote."No words can adequately express our anguish."
Mercado was an entrepreneurship and small business student, according to the college. He was also a member of the college's men's baseball team. Central Penn head baseball coach Robert Stern described Mercado as"fun-spirited" on a GoFundMe page set up to assist with funeral and medical expenses. "He was a promising young athlete who devastatingly lost his life while helping others enjoy the sport he loved so much," Stern said.
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