The Hilinskis lost a son to suicide. He was diagnosed with CTE. Now his younger brother is following in his college football footsteps.
Hernandez: Tyler Hilinski was young, gifted and loved by family, friends and teammates, all of whom are searching for a reason for his deathWhen Mark talks to groups, he does not focus on what factors may have contributed to Tyler’s silent suffering, like the revelation that the quarterback had been living with the tau protein build-up in his brain known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
“They should have a fulfilled, wonderful life,” Kym says, “and losing their brother, I’m sure it’s going to take a long time for them to even truly believe that, and I hope they do believe it and enjoy their lives. So we help them. We got jet skis. And for a couple weeks, we were having a blast, you know, going as fast as we could, going around in circles. And then after a while, I’m like, you know, let’s remodel the house.
Mark Hilinski looks in on a bedroom where memorabilia of his son Tyler, a star quarterback at Washington State University is stored. “My thought is, he’s got a whole year to prepare for his dream job, running a Pac-12 team, and the first thing is going to be, well, we have this incident of him missing, and the [public relations] of that being published,” Mark says.
Today, Mark won’t say that Tyler “committed” suicide. He prefers “die by” because Tyler had an illness, and “you don’t commit cancer,” he says.That frame of mind keeps him from becoming angry at Tyler for not seeking help before he pulled the trigger on the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle he had stolen from friends after an afternoon of skeet shooting.
They found no suicide note, or explanation, or keyword search that offered a clue, only the numbers of the six-digit password that Tyler had set, which phonetically spelled:Before they leave for Hawaii, Kym has four packages and eight cards to mail to people who have donated to Hilinski’s Hope, which has raised about $400,000.
Kym thought back to her younger days as a football mom. She always had wished the boys could be covered in bubble wrap. “We made a pact when we were younger,” Ryan says. “It was, ‘Hey, if I don’t make it to the NFL, you’re going to make it to the NFL,’ and vice versa. I’m just trying to carry on that dream for Tyler.”that Tyler had CTE, USA Today posted a video with the title, “A hard truth: Football killed Tyler Hilinski.”
Ryan Hilinski is hugged by his dad Mark Hilinski after speaking at his brother's funeral at Damien High School in January 2018.
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